Head to head
1
Hard
6
2
Clay
1
0
Grass
3
2
Carpet
2
Cliff Richey's wins on the left · Arthur Ashe's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (17)
| 1976 | Palm Springs | Hard | R16 | Arthur Ashe | 6-3 6-4 |
| 1975 | San Francisco | Carpet | R16 | Arthur Ashe | 6-4 6-1 |
| 1975 | Nottingham | Grass | R16 | Arthur Ashe | 6-2 7-5 |
| 1972 | Montreal WCT | Carpet | QF | Arthur Ashe | 6-4 6-4 |
| 1972 | US Open | Grass | SF | Arthur Ashe | 6-1 6-4 7-6 |
| 1972 | Bretton Woods WCT | Clay | SF | Cliff Richey | 6-2 6-4 |
| 1972 | Las Vegas WCT | Hard | R32 | Arthur Ashe | 7-6 4-6 6-4 |
| 1971 | Charlotte | Clay | SF | Arthur Ashe | 7-6 4-6 7-6 |
| 1970 | Stockholm | Hard | SF | Arthur Ashe | 7-5 6-4 |
| 1970 | Berkeley | Hard | F | Arthur Ashe | 6-4 6-2 6-4 |
| 1970 | Washington | Clay | F | Cliff Richey | 7-5 6-2 6-1 |
| 1970 | San Juan | Hard | F | Arthur Ashe | 6-4 6-3 1-6 6-3 |
| 1970 | Macon | Carpet | F | Cliff Richey | 3-6 6-3 8-6 |
| 1970 | Philadelphia | Carpet | R16 | Cliff Richey | 6-4 4-6 8-6 |
| 1969 | Las Vegas | Hard | QF | Arthur Ashe | 6-2 6-3 |
| 1969 | Berkeley | Hard | SF | Cliff Richey | 9-11 6-4 6-4 |
| 1968 | Bristol | Grass | SF | Arthur Ashe | 4-6 6-3 3-2 RET |
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.