TENNISGOAT

Head to head

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Rivalry summary

Roscoe Tanner and Arthur Ashe met 13 times on the ATP tour between 1970 and 1979. Arthur Ashe leads the head-to-head 10–3 against Roscoe Tanner. By surface, Ashe leads 3–1 on hard; they are level 1–1 on grass; Ashe leads 5–1 on carpet. They contested 2 finals, with Tanner winning 1 of them.

🇺🇸 Roscoe Tanner

3

15 titles · 1 Slams

🇺🇸 Arthur Ashe

10

45 titles · 3 Slams

1
Hard
3
0
Clay
1
1
Grass
1
1
Carpet
5

Roscoe Tanner's wins on the left · Arthur Ashe's on the right · bar lengths share one scale

Momentum

Roscoe Tanner leads ↑ Arthur Ashe leads ↓

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

All meetings (13)

1979 Memphis Carpet SF Arthur Ashe 2-6 6-4 6-4
1978 San Jose Carpet SF Arthur Ashe 6-4 5-7 7-6
1976 Palm Springs Hard SF Roscoe Tanner 6-3 3-6 6-4
1975 Los Angeles Carpet F Arthur Ashe 3-6 7-5 6-3
1974 Wimbledon Grass R32 Roscoe Tanner 7-5 6-3 8-9 6-3
1974 Denver WCT Carpet F Roscoe Tanner 6-2 6-4
1974 Sao Paulo WCT Carpet R16 Arthur Ashe 5-7 6-4 6-2
1973 Boston Hard QF Arthur Ashe 4-6 6-4 7-5
1973 Las Vegas Hard SF Arthur Ashe 7-6 6-2
1973 Houston WCT Clay R16 Arthur Ashe 6-7 7-6 7-6
1973 Chicago WCT Carpet R16 Arthur Ashe 7-6 6-2
1970 US Open Grass R64 Arthur Ashe 6-7 6-4 6-3 6-4
1970 Sacramento Hard R16 Arthur Ashe 6-4 6-2
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.