Head to head
2
Hard
5
0
Clay
1
1
Grass
2
1
Carpet
6
Stan Smith's wins on the left · Jimmy Connors's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (18)
| 1981 | Philadelphia WCT | Carpet | R64 | Jimmy Connors | 6-3 6-3 |
| 1979 | Memphis | Carpet | R16 | Jimmy Connors | 6-4 6-1 |
| 1979 | Birmingham WCT | Carpet | QF | Jimmy Connors | 6-4 6-1 |
| 1978 | Denver | Carpet | F | Jimmy Connors | 6-2 7-6 |
| 1977 | Boston | Clay | R16 | Jimmy Connors | 6-4 6-3 |
| 1977 | Wimbledon | Grass | R16 | Jimmy Connors | 7-9 6-2 3-6 6-3 6-3 |
| 1977 | Las Vegas | Hard | QF | Jimmy Connors | 6-1 6-3 |
| 1976 | Wembley | Carpet | QF | Jimmy Connors | 6-3 7-5 |
| 1976 | Wimbledon | Grass | R16 | Jimmy Connors | 6-4 6-1 6-3 |
| 1976 | Philadelphia WCT | Carpet | R16 | Jimmy Connors | 4-6 6-1 6-3 |
| 1974 | Nottingham | Grass | QF | Stan Smith | 4-6 6-4 6-0 |
| 1973 | Masters | Hard | RR | Jimmy Connors | 6-0 3-6 7-6 |
| 1973 | Los Angeles | Hard | QF | Jimmy Connors | 3-6 6-4 7-6 |
| 1973 | Boston | Hard | R32 | Jimmy Connors | 6-3 6-3 |
| 1972 | Masters | Hard | RR | Stan Smith | 3-6 6-2 7-5 |
| 1972 | Washington-1 | Carpet | F | Stan Smith | 4-6 6-1 6-3 4-6 6-1 |
| 1971 | Los Angeles | Hard | SF | Jimmy Connors | 3-6 6-3 7-5 |
| 1970 | Phoenix | Hard | R16 | Stan Smith | 6-4 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.