Head to head
Rivalry summary
Stan Smith and Roscoe Tanner met 10 times on the ATP tour between 1972 and 1978. Stan Smith leads the head-to-head 8–2 against Roscoe Tanner. By surface, Smith leads 5–0 on hard; Smith leads 2–1 on grass. They contested 2 finals, with Smith winning 1 of them.
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Hard
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0
Clay
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Grass
1
1
Carpet
0
Stan Smith's wins on the left · Roscoe Tanner's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (10)
| 1978 | Stockholm | Hard | R16 | Stan Smith | 6-3 7-6 |
| 1976 | Johannesburg-2 | Hard | QF | Stan Smith | 6-3 4-6 6-4 |
| 1976 | Columbus-2 | Clay | F | Roscoe Tanner | 6-4 7-6 |
| 1976 | Memphis WCT | Carpet | QF | Stan Smith | 6-4 7-6(6) |
| 1974 | US Open | Grass | QF | Roscoe Tanner | 7-6 6-2 3-6 6-1 |
| 1974 | Nottingham | Grass | SF | Stan Smith | 6-0 4-6 6-4 |
| 1974 | Las Vegas | Hard | R16 | Stan Smith | 4-6 6-0 6-3 |
| 1973 | Paris | Hard | QF | Stan Smith | 3-6 6-1 6-1 |
| 1973 | US Open | Grass | R32 | Stan Smith | 6-7 7-6 6-4 6-3 |
| 1972 | Los Angeles-2 | Hard | F | Stan Smith | 6-4 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.