| R32 | L | Vitas Gerulaitis | 6-3 6-2 | H2H |
🇦🇺 AUS · Right-handed · 183 cm · b. 1944-05-23
John Newcombe
Active 1968–1981 · best rank seen: 1
569–227
41
5
0
72
38,710
Hard
149–53 (73.8%)
Clay
135–57 (70.3%)
Grass
164–45 (78.5%)
Carpet
121–72 (62.7%)
Main rivals
| Opponent | Record | Meetings | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 Roger Taylor | 22–6 | 28 | Full H2H |
| 🇭🇷 Nikola Pilic | 20–7 | 27 | Full H2H |
| 🇺🇸 Marty Riessen | 12–13 | 25 | Full H2H |
| 🇦🇺 Tony Roche | 13–11 | 24 | Full H2H |
| 🇳🇱 Tom Okker | 11–11 | 22 | Full H2H |
| 🇦🇺 Ken Rosewall | 10–12 | 22 | Full H2H |
| 🇿🇦 Cliff Drysdale | 14–5 | 19 | Full H2H |
| 🇦🇺 Rod Laver | 4–14 | 18 | Full H2H |
| 🇫🇷 Pierre Barthes | 12–5 | 17 | Full H2H |
| 🇺🇸 Arthur Ashe | 11–5 | 16 | Full H2H |
| 🇦🇺 Fred Stolle | 11–3 | 14 | Full H2H |
| 🇺🇸 Stan Smith | 9–5 | 14 | Full H2H |
Opponents faced 10+ times; walkovers excluded.
Grand Slam record
| '68 | '69 | '70 | '71 | '72 | '73 | '74 | '75 | '76 | '77 | '78 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Open | QF | QF | QF | W | QF | W | F | QF | |||
| Roland Garros | QF | 1R | 1R | ||||||||
| Wimbledon | 4R | F | W | W | QF | 3R | 4R | ||||
| US Open | QF | SF | SF | 1R | 3R | W | SF |
Season by season
Gold band: best three-year window (1972–1974).
Elo over time
Pre-match Elo, sampled across the career. Peak: 2288.
Career titles (41)
- 1974 Australian Open Grass Slam
- 1974 Sydney-2 Hard
- 1974 Tokyo-2 Clay
- 1974 Maui Hard
- 1974 WCT Finals Carpet
- 1974 Orlando WCT Hard
- 1974 New Orleans WCT Carpet
- 1974 Tucson Hard
- 1974 Carlsbad WCT Hard
- 1974 St. Petersburg WCT Carpet
- 1973 Jakarta Hard
- 1973 Columbia Carpet
- 1973 US Open Grass Slam
- 1972 Australian Open Grass Slam
- 1972 Johannesburg WCT Hard
- 1972 Gothenburg WCT Carpet
- 1972 Vancouver WCT Carpet
- 1972 Alamo WCT Hard
- 1972 Fort Worth WCT Hard
- 1972 St. Louis WCT Hard
- 1972 Las Vegas WCT Hard
- 1971 Toronto WCT Clay
- 1971 Gstaad Clay
- 1971 Wimbledon Grass Slam
- 1971 Dallas WCT Carpet
- 1971 Chicago WCT Carpet
- 1971 Philadelphia WCT Carpet
- 1970 Hoylake Grass
- 1970 Wimbledon Grass Slam
- 1970 Casablanca Clay
- 1970 Melbourne Grass
- 1969 Bournemouth Clay
- 1969 Rome Clay
- 1968 Kimberley WCT Hard
- 1968 East London WCT Hard
- 1968 Durban WCT Hard
- 1968 Pretoria WCT Hard
- 1968 Hamburg Clay
- 1968 Cannes WCT Hard
- 1968 Evansville WCT Carpet
- 1968 Bakersfield WCT Carpet
Match results
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.