TENNISGOAT

Head to head

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Rivalry summary

John Newcombe and Earl Butch Buchholz met 14 times on the ATP tour between 1968 and 1975. Earl Butch Buchholz leads the head-to-head 8–6 against John Newcombe. By surface, Buchholz leads 3–0 on hard; Newcombe leads 3–0 on grass; Buchholz leads 4–3 on carpet. They contested 1 finals, with Newcombe winning 0 of them.

🇦🇺 John Newcombe

6

41 titles · 5 Slams

🇺🇸 Earl Butch Buchholz

8

6 titles · 0 Slams

0
Hard
3
0
Clay
1
3
Grass
0
3
Carpet
4

John Newcombe's wins on the left · Earl Butch Buchholz's on the right · bar lengths share one scale

Momentum

John Newcombe leads ↑ Earl Butch Buchholz leads ↓

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

All meetings (14)

1975 Jackson Carpet SF Earl Butch Buchholz 7-6 6-1
1970 Philadelphia Carpet QF John Newcombe 8-6 3-6 8-6
1969 Atlanta Hard F Earl Butch Buchholz 6-4 5-7 6-4 5-7 6-2
1969 Toronto Clay SF Earl Butch Buchholz 3-6 6-4 7-5 6-0
1969 Queen's Club Grass R32 John Newcombe 8-10 6-0 10-8
1968 Johannesburg WCT Hard SF Earl Butch Buchholz 6-4 3-6 12-10
1968 Newport WCT Grass Fs John Newcombe 21-13 20-21 21-20
1968 Boston-1 Grass QF John Newcombe 11-9 6-3 6-4
1968 New Orleans WCT Carpet RR John Newcombe 31-23 31-20
1968 Houston WCT Carpet RR Earl Butch Buchholz 31-26 31-19
1968 Miami WCT Carpet QF Earl Butch Buchholz 31-27 31-26
1968 Shreveport WCT Hard SF Earl Butch Buchholz 31-29
1968 WCT World Cup Carpet RR Earl Butch Buchholz 31-29 31-30
1968 Sydney WCT Carpet RR John Newcombe 83-69
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.