| R32 | L | Marty Riessen | 6-2 6-4 | H2H |
🇺🇸 USA · Right-handed · 175 cm · b. 1946-12-31
Cliff Richey
Active 1968–1979 · best rank seen: 13
488–223
23
0
0
41
18,930
Hard
140–65 (68.3%)
Clay
172–64 (72.9%)
Grass
53–22 (70.7%)
Carpet
123–72 (63.1%)
Main rivals
| Opponent | Record | Meetings | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 Stan Smith | 4–19 | 23 | Full H2H |
| 🇺🇸 Arthur Ashe | 5–12 | 17 | Full H2H |
| 🇷🇴 Ilie Nastase | 5–8 | 13 | Full H2H |
| 🇭🇷 Zeljko Franulovic | 7–5 | 12 | Full H2H |
| 🇦🇺 Rod Laver | 5–7 | 12 | Full H2H |
| 🇺🇸 Brian Gottfried | 7–4 | 11 | Full H2H |
| 🇺🇸 Dick Stockton | 6–4 | 10 | Full H2H |
| 🇺🇸 Robert Lutz | 5–5 | 10 | Full H2H |
| 🇦🇺 Ken Rosewall | 2–8 | 10 | Full H2H |
Opponents faced 10+ times; walkovers excluded.
Grand Slam record
| '68 | '69 | '70 | '71 | '72 | '73 | '74 | '75 | '76 | '77 | '78 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Open | |||||||||||
| Roland Garros | 4R | 4R | SF | 4R | 1R | 1R | |||||
| Wimbledon | 2R | 2R | 2R | QF | 4R | ||||||
| US Open | 3R | SF | 3R | SF | 4R | 2R | 3R | 2R | 1R |
Season by season
Gold band: best three-year window (1969–1971).
Elo over time
Pre-match Elo, sampled across the career. Peak: 2191.
Career titles (23)
- 1978 Johannesburg-1 Hard
- 1976 Bermuda Clay
- 1974 Lakeway WCT Hard
- 1972 Bretton Woods WCT Clay
- 1972 Johannesburg-1 Hard
- 1972 London-1 Carpet
- 1971 Kansas City Hard
- 1971 Houston Clay
- 1971 Des Moines Carpet
- 1971 Fort Lauderdale Clay
- 1970 Indianapolis Clay
- 1970 Washington Clay
- 1970 Charlotte Clay
- 1970 Macon Carpet
- 1969 New Orleans Carpet
- 1969 Haverford Grass
- 1969 Toronto Clay
- 1969 Cincinnati Clay
- 1969 Curacao Hard
- 1969 Omaha Hard
- 1968 New Orleans-2 Carpet
- 1968 Houston-2 Clay
- 1968 Salisbury Hard
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.