Head to head
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Hard
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Carpet
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Roscoe Tanner'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)
| 1984 | Rotterdam | Carpet | R32 | Brian Gottfried | 7-5 6-2 |
| 1981 | Las Vegas | Hard | QF | Roscoe Tanner | 6-1 6-4 |
| 1979 | Washington-1 | Carpet | F | Roscoe Tanner | 6-4 6-4 |
| 1979 | Rancho Mirage | Hard | F | Roscoe Tanner | 6-4 6-2 |
| 1978 | US Open | Hard | R16 | Brian Gottfried | 6-2 6-4 6-1 |
| 1978 | Masters | Carpet | RR | Brian Gottfried | 7-5 6-2 |
| 1977 | Los Angeles-1 | Carpet | SF | Brian Gottfried | 3-6 7-5 6-3 |
| 1976 | San Francisco | Carpet | F | Roscoe Tanner | 4-6 7-5 6-1 |
| 1976 | Richmond WCT | Carpet | R16 | Brian Gottfried | 6-3 6-4 |
| 1975 | St. Louis WCT | Carpet | SF | Roscoe Tanner | 6-2 7-6(2) |
| 1974 | San Francisco | Carpet | R32 | Roscoe Tanner | 7-6 5-7 6-0 |
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.