Head to head
0
Hard
2
2
Clay
1
1
Grass
0
4
Carpet
1
Cliff Richey's wins on the left · Brian Gottfried's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (11)
| 1977 | Los Angeles-1 | Carpet | QF | Brian Gottfried | 6-1 7-6 |
| 1975 | Melbourne | Clay | SF | Brian Gottfried | 2-6 6-3 6-3 |
| 1973 | Seattle | Carpet | QF | Cliff Richey | 6-4 2-6 6-2 |
| 1973 | Indianapolis | Clay | QF | Cliff Richey | 6-2 2-6 6-3 |
| 1973 | Las Vegas | Hard | SF | Brian Gottfried | 6-1 7-5 |
| 1973 | Johannesburg WCT | Hard | R16 | Brian Gottfried | 6-3 6-2 |
| 1973 | Brussels WCT | Carpet | R32 | Cliff Richey | 6-3 5-7 6-2 |
| 1973 | Munich WCT | Carpet | SF | Cliff Richey | 6-1 6-2 |
| 1973 | Richmond WCT | Carpet | R16 | Cliff Richey | 6-0 6-2 |
| 1972 | US Open | Grass | R128 | Cliff Richey | 6-2 7-6 6-2 |
| 1971 | Indianapolis | Clay | R16 | Cliff Richey | 6-3 6-1 |
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.