Head to head
Rivalry summary
Phil Dent and Nikola Pilic met 7 times on the ATP tour between 1970 and 1977. Nikola Pilic leads the head-to-head 6–1 against Phil Dent. By surface, Pilic leads 3–1 on clay; Pilic leads 2–0 on carpet.
1
Clay
3
0
Grass
1
0
Carpet
2
Phil Dent's wins on the left · Nikola Pilic's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (8)
| 1977 | Roland Garros | Clay | R128 | Phil Dent | 1-6 4-6 7-6 6-4 6-4 |
| 1974 | Munich WCT | Carpet | SF | Nikola Pilic | 7-6 7-6 |
| 1974 | Richmond WCT | Carpet | R16 | Nikola Pilic | 4-6 6-3 6-2 |
| 1973 | US Open | Grass | R32 | Nikola Pilic | 4-6 6-3 6-3 6-1 |
| 1973 | Roland Garros | Clay | R32 | Nikola Pilic | 3-6 7-5 7-6 6-3 |
| 1972 | Hollywood WCT | Clay | R32 | Nikola Pilic | 6-1 6-4 |
| 1970 | Rome | Clay | R32 | Nikola Pilic | 4-6 3-6 6-1 6-2 6-3 |
| 1970 | Monte-Carlo | Clay | R64 | Nikola Pilic | W/O |
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.