Head to head
Rivalry summary
Cliff Drysdale and Stan Smith met 9 times on the ATP tour between 1969 and 1977. Stan Smith leads the head-to-head 7–2 against Cliff Drysdale. By surface, Smith leads 3–1 on hard; they are level 1–1 on clay; Smith leads 3–0 on carpet.
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Hard
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Clay
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Carpet
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Cliff Drysdale's wins on the left · Stan Smith's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (9)
| 1977 | Los Angeles-2 | Hard | R16 | Cliff Drysdale | 0-6 7-6 6-3 |
| 1977 | Las Vegas | Hard | R16 | Stan Smith | 6-7 7-5 6-0 |
| 1974 | Tucson | Hard | QF | Stan Smith | 2-6 7-5 6-3 |
| 1973 | Munich WCT | Carpet | R32 | Stan Smith | 6-4 6-3 |
| 1973 | St. Louis WCT | Carpet | SF | Stan Smith | 6-3 6-3 |
| 1971 | Washington WCT | Clay | QF | Stan Smith | 0-6 7-6 6-1 |
| 1971 | Brussels | Clay | QF | Cliff Drysdale | 6-4 6-3 7-5 |
| 1970 | Stockholm | Hard | R16 | Stan Smith | 6-3 6-3 |
| 1969 | Wembley | Carpet | R32 | Stan Smith | 3-6 6-3 6-4 |
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.