TENNISGOAT

Head to head

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Rivalry summary

Rod Laver and Tony Roche met 20 times on the ATP tour between 1968 and 1972. Rod Laver leads the head-to-head 11–9 against Tony Roche. By surface, Roche leads 2–0 on hard; Roche leads 2–0 on clay; they are level 3–3 on grass; Laver leads 8–2 on carpet. They contested 11 finals, including 2 Grand Slam finals, with Laver winning 5 of them.

🇦🇺 Rod Laver

11

72 titles · 5 Slams

🇦🇺 Tony Roche

9

21 titles · 0 Slams

0
Hard
2
0
Clay
2
3
Grass
3
8
Carpet
2

Rod Laver's wins on the left · Tony Roche's on the right · bar lengths share one scale

Momentum

Rod Laver leads ↑ Tony Roche leads ↓

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

All meetings (20)

1972 St. Louis WCT Hard R32 Tony Roche 6-4 4-6 7-5
1972 Chicago WCT Carpet R32 Rod Laver 6-3 6-3
1972 Philadelphia WCT Carpet R16 Rod Laver 6-1 0-6 6-2
1971 Tennis Champions Classic Carpet RR Rod Laver 6-5 4-6 3-6 6-5 6-1
1971 London-1 Carpet SF Rod Laver 6-3 7-5
1970 Boston Hard F Tony Roche 3-6 6-4 1-6 6-2 6-2
1970 Tennis Champions Classic Carpet RR Rod Laver 6-2 6-4 6-2
1970 Dublin Grass F Tony Roche 6-3 6-1
1970 Philadelphia Carpet F Rod Laver 6-3 8-6 6-2
1969 Wembley Carpet F Rod Laver 6-4 6-1 6-3
1969 US Open Grass F Rod Laver 7-9 6-1 6-2 6-2
1969 Amsterdam Clay 3rd/4th Tony Roche 6-3 3-6 6-2
1969 Oakland Carpet F Tony Roche 4-6 6-4 11-9
1969 Hollywood Clay F Tony Roche 6-3 9-7 6-4
1969 Philadelphia Carpet F Rod Laver 7-5 6-4 6-4
1969 Auckland Grass F Tony Roche 6-1 6-4 4-6 6-3
1969 Australian Open Grass SF Rod Laver 7-5 22-20 9-11 1-6 6-3
1969 Sydney Grass F Tony Roche 6-4 4-6 9-7 12-10
1968 New York-3 Carpet SF Tony Roche 6-4 6-3
1968 Wimbledon Grass F Rod Laver 6-3 6-4 6-2
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.