TENNISGOAT

Head to head

vs

🇦🇺 John Newcombe

20

41 titles · 5 Slams

🇭🇷 Nikola Pilic

7

6 titles · 0 Slams

6
Hard
0
4
Clay
1
5
Grass
3
5
Carpet
3

John Newcombe's wins on the left · Nikola Pilic's on the right · bar lengths share one scale

Momentum

John Newcombe leads ↑ Nikola Pilic leads ↓

Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).

All meetings (27)

1974 Wimbledon Grass R32 John Newcombe 6-2 7-5 7-5
1973 Toronto-2 Clay R16 John Newcombe 6-4 6-4
1973 Louisville Clay QF John Newcombe 6-4 4-6 6-1
1972 Essen WCT Carpet QF Nikola Pilic 6-2 6-4
1972 St. Louis WCT Hard F John Newcombe 6-3 6-3
1971 Bristol WCT Grass R32 Nikola Pilic 9-8 6-4
1971 Chicago WCT Carpet R32 John Newcombe 6-4 6-4
1971 London-1 Carpet QF Nikola Pilic 6-3 7-6
1970 Newport-1 Grass SF John Newcombe 6-3 6-3
1970 Bristol Grass SF Nikola Pilic 4-6 14-12 8-6
1970 Casablanca Clay SF John Newcombe 6-2 7-9 8-6 6-0
1970 St. Louis Hard R16 John Newcombe 6-3 6-1
1970 Australian Round Robin Grass RR John Newcombe 6-2 6-3
1969 Wimbledon Grass R128 John Newcombe 12-10 6-4 4-6 7-5
1968 East London WCT Hard SF John Newcombe 11-9
1968 Pretoria WCT Hard QF John Newcombe 6-4 6-2
1968 Newport WCT Grass 3rd/4th John Newcombe 21-13 12-21 21-19
1968 Newport WCT Grass RR Nikola Pilic 21-14 21-16
1968 Hamburg Clay SF John Newcombe 3-6 6-4 6-4 6-3
1968 Cannes WCT Hard QF John Newcombe 13-11 6-3
1968 Bastad WCT Clay RR Nikola Pilic 6-1 6-4 1-6 6-4
1968 Minneapolis WCT Carpet SF John Newcombe 31-20 31-27
1968 Evansville WCT Carpet F John Newcombe 31-17 31-17
1968 Bakersfield WCT Carpet QF John Newcombe 31-22
1968 New Orleans WCT Carpet RR John Newcombe 31-28 31-27
1968 Houston WCT Carpet RR Nikola Pilic 27-31 31-22
1968 Shreveport WCT Hard QF John Newcombe 31-28
Methodology

Head-to-head totals and surface splits exclude walkovers (no match was played), which follows ATP convention — walkover meetings still appear in the match list. The momentum chart plots the running lead across all counted meetings, oldest to newest.