Head to head
Rivalry summary
Cliff Richey and Bob Carmichael met 9 times on the ATP tour between 1969 and 1971. Cliff Richey leads the head-to-head 7–2 against Bob Carmichael. By surface, Richey leads 3–0 on hard; Richey leads 2–1 on clay; they are level 1–1 on grass. They contested 2 finals, with Richey winning 2 of them.
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Hard
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Clay
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Grass
1
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Carpet
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Cliff Richey's wins on the left · Bob Carmichael's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (9)
| 1971 | Berkeley WCT | Hard | R64 | Cliff Richey | 6-4 6-2 |
| 1971 | Houston | Clay | SF | Cliff Richey | 1-6 7-5 6-0 6-4 |
| 1970 | Buenos Aires | Clay | QF | Bob Carmichael | 7-6 5-7 6-4 6-3 |
| 1970 | Berkeley | Hard | QF | Cliff Richey | 7-5 3-6 6-3 |
| 1970 | Charlotte | Clay | F | Cliff Richey | 6-4 6-4 |
| 1970 | Hampton | Carpet | R32 | Cliff Richey | 6-2 6-3 |
| 1970 | Salisbury | Hard | R64 | Cliff Richey | 6-4 6-4 |
| 1969 | Haverford | Grass | F | Cliff Richey | 6-4 7-9 6-2 6-4 |
| 1969 | Wimbledon | Grass | R64 | Bob Carmichael | 2-6 6-4 7-5 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.