Head to head
1
Hard
4
0
Clay
3
Andrei Pavel's wins on the left · Marcelo Rios's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (8)
| 2002 | Sydney | Hard | R16 | Marcelo Rios | 6-1 6-4 |
| 2001 | US Open | Hard | R64 | Marcelo Rios | 7-5 6-4 6-0 |
| 2000 | Barcelona | Clay | R32 | Marcelo Rios | 6-3 4-6 7-6(1) |
| 1999 | Monte Carlo Masters | Clay | R32 | Marcelo Rios | 0-6 6-4 7-6(6) |
| 1999 | Barcelona | Clay | R32 | Marcelo Rios | 3-6 6-3 6-2 |
| 1999 | Auckland | Hard | R32 | Andrei Pavel | 5-7 2-0 RET |
| 1998 | Singapore | Hard | R16 | Marcelo Rios | 6-2 6-4 |
| 1996 | US Open | Hard | R128 | Marcelo Rios | 4-6 6-1 6-4 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.