TENNISGOAT

Head to head

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Rivalry summary

Cliff Drysdale and Earl Butch Buchholz met 10 times on the ATP tour between 1968 and 1969. Earl Butch Buchholz leads the head-to-head 6–4 against Cliff Drysdale. By surface, Buchholz leads 2–0 on hard; Buchholz leads 4–3 on carpet.

🇿🇦 Cliff Drysdale

4

8 titles · 0 Slams

🇺🇸 Earl Butch Buchholz

6

6 titles · 0 Slams

0
Hard
2
1
Grass
0
3
Carpet
4

Cliff Drysdale's wins on the left · Earl Butch Buchholz's on the right · bar lengths share one scale

Momentum

Cliff Drysdale leads ↑ Earl Butch Buchholz leads ↓

Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).

All meetings (10)

1969 Stockholm Hard R32 Earl Butch Buchholz 7-5 6-2
1968 Pretoria WCT Hard QF Earl Butch Buchholz 6-3 7-5
1968 Newport WCT Grass RR Cliff Drysdale 21-20 21-12
1968 Baltimore WCT Carpet QF Cliff Drysdale 8-5
1968 Buffalo WCT Carpet SF Earl Butch Buchholz 25-31 31-23 5-2
1968 Fresno WCT Carpet SF Earl Butch Buchholz 31-25 31-28
1968 Bakersfield WCT Carpet SF Cliff Drysdale 31-28
1968 Tulsa WCT Carpet RR Earl Butch Buchholz 30-31 31-28 5-3
1968 Orlando WCT Carpet RR Earl Butch Buchholz 28-31 31-23 5-2
1968 Sydney WCT Carpet RR Cliff Drysdale 99-47
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.