Head to head
Rivalry summary
Phil Dent and Roscoe Tanner met 12 times on the ATP tour between 1973 and 1982. Roscoe Tanner leads the head-to-head 7–5 against Phil Dent. By surface, Dent leads 3–0 on hard; Tanner leads 2–1 on clay; Tanner leads 4–0 on grass; they are level 1–1 on carpet.
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Hard
0
1
Clay
2
0
Grass
4
1
Carpet
1
Phil Dent's wins on the left · Roscoe Tanner's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (12)
| 1982 | Monterrey | Carpet | R32 | Roscoe Tanner | 7-6 6-4 |
| 1981 | Bristol | Grass | QF | Roscoe Tanner | 6-7 6-3 13-11 |
| 1979 | Toronto | Hard | R64 | Phil Dent | 6-7 7-6 6-1 |
| 1979 | Queen's Club | Grass | R32 | Roscoe Tanner | 6-3 6-3 |
| 1978 | Nations Cup | Clay | RR | Roscoe Tanner | 6-2 7-6 |
| 1977 | Queen's Club | Grass | R32 | Roscoe Tanner | 6-2 6-3 |
| 1977 | Australian Open-1 | Grass | QF | Roscoe Tanner | 6-3 6-4 6-2 |
| 1976 | Perth | Carpet | SF | Phil Dent | 3-6 6-3 8-6 |
| 1976 | Fort Worth WCT | Hard | SF | Phil Dent | 6-4 6-4 |
| 1975 | US Open | Clay | R64 | Roscoe Tanner | 6-2 6-1 |
| 1975 | Tucson | Hard | R64 | Phil Dent | 6-4 6-7 7-6 |
| 1973 | Washington-3 | Clay | R32 | Phil Dent | 6-7 7-6 6-3 |
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.