Head to head
Rivalry summary
Bob Hewitt and Adriano Panatta met 7 times on the ATP tour between 1972 and 1978. Adriano Panatta leads the head-to-head 4–3 against Bob Hewitt. By surface, they are level 1–1 on hard; Panatta leads 2–1 on clay; they are level 1–1 on carpet.
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Hard
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Clay
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Carpet
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Bob Hewitt's wins on the left · Adriano Panatta's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (8)
| 1978 | Boston | Clay | R64 | Adriano Panatta | 6-4 6-3 |
| 1975 | Tehran | Clay | R32 | Adriano Panatta | 7-6 6-3 |
| 1975 | Johannesburg WCT | Hard | R32 | Bob Hewitt | W/O |
| 1975 | Monte-Carlo WCT | Clay | QF | Bob Hewitt | 6-2 6-2 |
| 1975 | Bologna WCT | Carpet | QF | Bob Hewitt | 7-6(5) 3-6 6-1 |
| 1975 | Richmond WCT | Carpet | R16 | Adriano Panatta | 6-0 4-6 6-4 |
| 1974 | Davis Cup EUR SF: RSA vs ITA | Hard | RR | Adriano Panatta | 6-3 8-6 6-2 |
| 1972 | Johannesburg-1 | Hard | R16 | Bob Hewitt | 1-6 6-4 6-2 6-1 |
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.