Head to head
Rivalry summary
John Newcombe and Roscoe Tanner met 5 times on the ATP tour between 1974 and 1978. Roscoe Tanner leads the head-to-head 4–1 against John Newcombe. By surface, Tanner leads 3–0 on grass. They contested 1 finals, with Newcombe winning 1 of them.
1
Hard
0
0
Grass
3
0
Carpet
1
John Newcombe's wins on the left · Roscoe Tanner's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
All meetings (5)
| 1978 | Birmingham-2 | Grass | QF | Roscoe Tanner | 6-3 6-3 |
| 1978 | Washington-1 | Carpet | R16 | Roscoe Tanner | 6-4 7-6 |
| 1977 | Sydney-2 | Grass | R32 | Roscoe Tanner | 6-3 5-7 6-4 |
| 1974 | Maui | Hard | F | John Newcombe | 7-6 7-6 |
| 1974 | Nottingham | Grass | R16 | Roscoe Tanner | 8-6 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.