Head to head
Rivalry summary
Butch Walts and Brian Gottfried met 6 times on the ATP tour between 1976 and 1983. Brian Gottfried leads the head-to-head 5–1 against Butch Walts. By surface, Gottfried leads 2–0 on hard; Gottfried leads 2–0 on grass; they are level 1–1 on carpet. They contested 1 finals, with Walts winning 1 of them.
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Hard
2
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Grass
2
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Carpet
1
Butch Walts's wins on the left · Brian Gottfried's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (6)
| 1983 | Queen's Club | Grass | R64 | Brian Gottfried | 6-2 6-7 9-7 |
| 1981 | US Open | Hard | R64 | Brian Gottfried | 7-6 6-4 6-2 |
| 1981 | Wimbledon | Grass | R128 | Brian Gottfried | 6-3 6-3 6-2 |
| 1980 | Denver | Carpet | R32 | Brian Gottfried | 6-4 6-7 6-4 |
| 1977 | San Francisco | Carpet | F | Butch Walts | 4-6 6-3 7-5 |
| 1976 | Maui | Hard | R64 | Brian Gottfried | 5-7 6-1 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.