Head to head
Rivalry summary
Cliff Drysdale and Cliff Richey met 7 times on the ATP tour between 1972 and 1978. Cliff Richey leads the head-to-head 4–3 against Cliff Drysdale. By surface, Richey leads 2–1 on hard; they are level 1–1 on clay; they are level 1–1 on carpet.
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Hard
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Clay
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Cliff Drysdale's wins on the left · Cliff Richey's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (7)
| 1978 | Palm Springs | Hard | R32 | Cliff Richey | 6-3 7-6 |
| 1978 | Baltimore | Carpet | QF | Cliff Drysdale | 3-6 6-4 6-2 |
| 1975 | Boston | Clay | R32 | Cliff Drysdale | 2-6 6-3 6-4 |
| 1975 | Fort Worth WCT | Hard | R16 | Cliff Drysdale | 3-6 7-6(5) 6-3 |
| 1972 | Essen WCT | Carpet | R16 | Cliff Richey | 7-5 6-3 |
| 1972 | Tokyo WCT | Hard | QF | Cliff Richey | 6-2 7-6 |
| 1972 | Charlotte WCT | Clay | SF | Cliff Richey | 6-2 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.