Head to head
Rivalry summary
Ion Tiriac and Arthur Ashe met 6 times on the ATP tour between 1969 and 1977. Arthur Ashe leads the head-to-head 4–2 against Ion Tiriac. By surface, Ashe leads 2–0 on hard; they are level 1–1 on clay; they are level 1–1 on carpet.
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Hard
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Clay
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Carpet
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Ion Tiriac's wins on the left · Arthur Ashe's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (6)
| 1977 | Louisville | Clay | R32 | Ion Tiriac | 7-5 6-4 |
| 1973 | London-3 | Carpet | R16 | Ion Tiriac | 3-6 6-2 6-3 |
| 1971 | Richmond | Carpet | R16 | Arthur Ashe | 7-5 6-0 |
| 1970 | Washington | Clay | SF | Arthur Ashe | 6-1 4-6 6-3 |
| 1969 | Denver | Hard | RR | Arthur Ashe | 6-3 |
| 1969 | Davis Cup WG CR: USA vs ROU | Hard | RR | Arthur Ashe | 6-3 8-6 3-6 4-0 RET |
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.