Head to head
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Hard
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Clay
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Grass
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Carpet
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John Newcombe's wins on the left · Marty Riessen's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (25)
| 1974 | Las Vegas | Hard | SF | Marty Riessen | 7-6 6-3 |
| 1973 | Chicago-2 | Hard | SF | John Newcombe | 1-6 7-6 6-4 |
| 1973 | WCT Aetna World Cup | Carpet | RR | Marty Riessen | 6-3 5-7 6-4 |
| 1972 | Vancouver WCT | Carpet | F | John Newcombe | 6-7 7-6 7-6 7-5 |
| 1972 | Louisville WCT | Clay | QF | John Newcombe | 7-5 6-3 |
| 1972 | Washington WCT | Clay | SF | Marty Riessen | 6-4 6-0 |
| 1972 | St. Louis WCT | Hard | QF | John Newcombe | 7-6 3-6 6-4 |
| 1972 | Denver WCT | Carpet | QF | Marty Riessen | 5-7 7-6 6-3 |
| 1971 | Barcelona WCT | Clay | QF | Marty Riessen | 3-6 6-2 6-4 |
| 1971 | Toronto WCT | Clay | QF | John Newcombe | 6-4 7-5 |
| 1971 | Washington WCT | Clay | SF | Marty Riessen | 4-6 6-3 7-6 |
| 1971 | Tehran WCT | Clay | SF | Marty Riessen | 6-3 7-6 |
| 1971 | Miami WCT | Hard | R16 | John Newcombe | 6-4 6-4 |
| 1971 | Australian Open | Grass | R16 | Marty Riessen | 6-7 6-1 7-6 7-6 |
| 1970 | Queen's Club | Grass | SF | John Newcombe | 2-6 6-4 10-8 |
| 1970 | London-1 | Carpet | R16 | Marty Riessen | 3-6 14-12 6-3 |
| 1969 | Paris | Carpet | QF | Marty Riessen | 5-7 11-9 6-3 |
| 1969 | US Open | Grass | R16 | John Newcombe | 4-6 6-3 6-4 25-23 |
| 1969 | Oakland | Carpet | QF | Marty Riessen | 6-2 7-5 |
| 1968 | Wembley-3 | Hard | R16 | John Newcombe | 10-8 7-5 |
| 1968 | Pretoria WCT | Hard | SF | John Newcombe | 7-5 6-4 |
| 1968 | Newport WCT | Grass | SF | Marty Riessen | 31-21 31-22 |
| 1968 | Newport WCT | Grass | RR | Marty Riessen | 21-18 21-18 |
| 1968 | Hamburg | Clay | QF | John Newcombe | 3-6 4-6 6-4 6-0 6-1 |
| 1968 | Cannes WCT | Hard | F | John Newcombe | 7-5 6-2 |
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.