Head to head
Rivalry summary
John McEnroe and Steve Denton met 7 times on the ATP tour between 1982 and 1984. John McEnroe leads the head-to-head 6–1 against Steve Denton. By surface, they are level 1–1 on hard; McEnroe leads 4–0 on carpet. They contested 1 finals, with McEnroe winning 1 of them.
1
Hard
1
1
Clay
0
4
Carpet
0
John McEnroe's wins on the left · Steve Denton's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (7)
| 1984 | Forest Hills WCT | Clay | R16 | John McEnroe | 6-3 6-2 |
| 1984 | Richmond WCT | Carpet | F | John McEnroe | 6-3 7-6 |
| 1983 | Wembley | Carpet | QF | John McEnroe | 6-3 6-3 |
| 1982 | Wembley | Carpet | SF | John McEnroe | 6-1 6-4 |
| 1982 | Tokyo-2 | Carpet | QF | John McEnroe | 7-6 7-5 |
| 1982 | Sydney-1 | Hard | SF | John McEnroe | 6-3 6-1 |
| 1982 | Cincinnati | Hard | SF | Steve Denton | 7-6 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.