| R32 | L | Jimmy Connors | 7-6 6-3 | H2H |
| R64 | W | Tom Edlefsen | 6-4 6-2 | H2H |
🇺🇸 USA · Right-handed · 188 cm · b. 1928-05-09
Richard Pancho Gonzales
Active 1968–1973 · best rank seen: 232
152–88
9
0
0
16
8,010
Hard
64–27 (70.3%)
Clay
18–14 (56.2%)
Grass
39–21 (65.0%)
Carpet
31–26 (54.4%)
Main rivals
| Opponent | Record | Meetings | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 Ken Rosewall | 5–10 | 15 | Full H2H |
| 🇦🇺 Rod Laver | 4–11 | 15 | Full H2H |
Opponents faced 10+ times; walkovers excluded.
Grand Slam record
| '68 | '69 | '70 | '71 | '72 | '73 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Open | 4R | |||||
| Roland Garros | SF | |||||
| Wimbledon | 3R | 4R | 2R | 2R | ||
| US Open | QF | 4R | 3R | 3R | 1R | 1R |
Season by season
Gold band: best three-year window (1968–1970).
Elo over time
Pre-match Elo, sampled across the career. Peak: 2124.
Career titles (9)
- 1972 Kingston Hard
- 1972 Des Moines Carpet
- 1971 Kingston Hard
- 1971 Los Angeles Hard
- 1970 Las Vegas Hard
- 1969 Las Vegas Hard
- 1969 Los Angeles-2 Hard
- 1968 Midland NTL Hard
- 1968 Los Angeles NTL Carpet
Match results
| R128 | L | Tom Okker | 6-7 6-3 6-1 6-4 | H2H |
| SF | L | Vijay Amritraj | 6-2 6-3 | H2H |
| QF | W | Paul Gerken | 7-6 7-6 | H2H |
| R16 | W | Sandy Mayer | 6-7 7-6 6-3 | H2H |
| R32 | W | John Lloyd | 7-6 6-4 | H2H |
| QF | L | Jimmy Connors | 6-7 6-3 6-3 | H2H |
| R16 | W | Ian Fletcher | 1-6 7-6 6-4 | H2H |
| R32 | W | Hans Gildemeister | 6-4 7-6 | H2H |
| R16 | L | Nicholas Kalogeropoulos | 7-6 6-4 | H2H |
Methodology
Titles include Slams, Masters, Tour Finals, 500s, 250s, legacy tour events and Olympic gold; Davis Cup is excluded, and walkovers are excluded from all win–loss records. GOAT points value every round reached, scaled per tier (Slam title 2000 anchor; ranking includes Slam champions only, but every player's points are shown here). Elo is a chess-style rating over the full match history (K = 250/(n+5)^0.4); the timeline shows pre-match ratings, sampled. The gold band on the season chart marks the best three-consecutive-year window.