| R16 | L | Gene Mayer | 6-3 6-0 | H2H |
| R32 | W | John Newcombe | 6-4 7-6 | H2H |
🇦🇺 AUS · Left-handed · 178 cm · b. 1945-05-17
Tony Roche
Active 1968–1980 · best rank seen: 8
364–184
21
0
0
41
22,525
Hard
66–36 (64.7%)
Clay
71–29 (71.0%)
Grass
136–38 (78.2%)
Carpet
91–81 (52.9%)
Main rivals
| Opponent | Record | Meetings | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 John Newcombe | 11–13 | 24 | Full H2H |
| 🇳🇱 Tom Okker | 7–14 | 21 | Full H2H |
| 🇦🇺 Rod Laver | 9–11 | 20 | Full H2H |
| 🇿🇦 Cliff Drysdale | 7–12 | 19 | Full H2H |
| 🇺🇸 Marty Riessen | 10–8 | 18 | Full H2H |
| 🇺🇸 Dennis Ralston | 7–11 | 18 | Full H2H |
| 🇺🇸 Earl Butch Buchholz | 10–7 | 17 | Full H2H |
| 🇬🇧 Roger Taylor | 11–4 | 15 | Full H2H |
| 🇦🇺 Ken Rosewall | 8–7 | 15 | Full H2H |
| 🇿🇦 Raymond Moore | 10–1 | 11 | Full H2H |
| 🇭🇷 Nikola Pilic | 9–2 | 11 | Full H2H |
| 🇦🇺 Ross Case | 6–5 | 11 | Full H2H |
Opponents faced 10+ times; walkovers excluded.
Grand Slam record
| '68 | '69 | '70 | '71 | '72 | '73 | '74 | '75 | '76 | '77 | '78 | '79 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Open | SF | QF | 4R | 3R | SF | QF | 4R | QF | 4R | |||
| Roland Garros | SF | |||||||||||
| Wimbledon | F | SF | QF | 1R | 3R | SF | 4R | 1R | ||||
| US Open | 4R | F | F | 3R | 2R |
Season by season
Gold band: best three-year window (1968–1970).
Elo over time
Pre-match Elo, sampled across the career. Peak: 2206.
Career titles (21)
- 1978 Queen's Club Grass
- 1976 Sydney-2 Grass
- 1976 Charlotte WCT Clay
- 1974 Sydney-3 Grass
- 1972 Washington WCT Clay
- 1970 Boston Hard
- 1970 Gstaad Clay
- 1970 Dublin Grass
- 1970 Australian Round Robin Grass
- 1969 Vienna Hard
- 1969 Tucson Hard
- 1969 Hamburg Clay
- 1969 Oakland Carpet
- 1969 Hollywood Clay
- 1969 Auckland Grass
- 1969 Sydney Grass
- 1968 New York-3 Carpet
- 1968 Vienna WCT Hard
- 1968 Cape Town WCT Hard
- 1968 Johannesburg WCT Hard
- 1968 Sydney WCT Carpet
Match results
| QF | L | Phil Dent | 5-7 6-3 6-2 | H2H |
| R16 | W | Peter Feigl | 6-3 6-1 | H2H |
| R32 | W | Junie Chatman | 7-5 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.