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Bill Bowrey vs Rod Laver Head to Head Tennis Stats and Match Analysis

Bill Bowrey seasons:19751974197319721971
Rod Laver seasons:19791978197719761975
🇦🇺 Bill Bowrey
🇦🇺 Rod Laver
Age: 82y 175d (1943-12-25)
Hand: R
Backhand: nan
(1938-08-09) Age: 87y 313d
Hand: L
Backhand: nan
1 - 4
Wins: 20.0% - 80.0%
Hard 0–0Clay 1–2Grass 0–0
Others 1–4
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🇦🇺Bill Bowrey and 🇦🇺Rod Laver have met 5 times. Rod Laver currently holds the upper hand, leading the series 4–1.

Looking at their individual career profiles, 🇦🇺Bill Bowrey has compiled an overall career record of 121–113 across 234 matches, translating to a win rate of 51.71%. On hard courts his record stands at 11–17 (39.29%), while on clay he holds a 39–37 (51.32%) mark. On grass the numbers read 71–41 (63.39%) , and on carpet 0–18 (0.00%). Throughout his career he has won 3 titles (3 grass).

🇦🇺Rod Laver, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 576–146 from 722 matches (79.78% win rate). His hard-court record is 152–32 (82.61%), on clay he stands at 121–39 (75.63%), and on grass he has gone 95–17 (84.82%) , with a carpet record of 208–58 (78.20%). He has accumulated 72 titles in total (25 hard, 15 clay, 9 grass, 23 carpet). Against Top 10 opponents his record stands at 17–28 (37.78%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. The clay record between them sits at 2–1 (66.67% for Rod Laver) across 3 matches.

Dateâ–¼
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
1972-04-09Quebec WCTCarpetR32-🇦🇺Rod Laver-🇦🇺Bill Bowrey7-5 6-43------0/0
1972-04-03Houston WCTClayQF-🇦🇺Rod Laver-🇦🇺Bill Bowrey6-2 7-53------0/0
1971-10-11Cologne WCTCarpetR32-🇦🇺Rod Laver-🇦🇺Bill Bowrey6-2 6-43------0/0
1971-07-19Louisville WCTClayR32-🇦🇺Bill Bowrey-🇦🇺Rod Laver3-6 6-3 6-43------0/0
1970-08-10TorontoClayR16-🇦🇺Rod Laver-🇦🇺Bill Bowrey6-3 6-13------0/0

Wins

Bill Bowrey
Rod Laver
1–4Overall
1–4Others
1–2Clay
0–2Indoor Hard

Sets Format

20.0%1
80.0%4
Bo3
0.0%0
0.0%0
Bo5
0.0%0
100.0%4
2 Sets
100.0%1
0.0%0
3 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
4 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
5 Sets
Bill Bowrey
Rod Laver

Deciding

100.0%1
0.0%0
Decider Set
0.0%0
0.0%0
Tiebreak Wins
0.0%0
0.0%0
After 3 hours
Bill Bowrey
Rod Laver

Sets

18.2%2
81.8%9
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
0.0%0
0.0%0
Masters 1000
0.0%0
0.0%0
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
28.6%2
71.4%5
Clay
0.0%0
100.0%4
Carpet
Bill Bowrey
Rod Laver

Games

39.4%41
60.6%63
All
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grand Slam
0.0%0
0.0%0
Masters 1000
0.0%0
0.0%0
Hard
0.0%0
0.0%0
Grass
40.6%26
59.4%38
Clay
37.5%15
62.5%25
Carpet
Bill Bowrey
Rod Laver

Overview

By Surface

Bill Bowrey
Rod Laver

By Tournament Level

Bill Bowrey
Rod Laver

By Round

Bill Bowrey
Rod Laver

By Opponent Ranking

Bill BowreyRod Laver
—
vs Top 1
0%0-3
—
vs Top 5
40%8-12
—
vs Top 10
37.8%17-28
—
vs Top 20
50.7%38-37
20%1-4
vs Top 100
67.7%105-50
75%3-1
vs +100
96.8%30-1
20%1-4
vs Higher
35.6%16-29
100%2-0
vs Lower
84.4%119-22

Opponent Breakdown

Bill BowreyRod Laver
53.8%57-49
Vs Younger
79.4%460-119
29.8%25-59
Vs Older
78.4%98-27
50%97-97
Vs Right-Handed
81.2%509-118
20%4-16
Vs Left-Handed
68.2%60-28
—
Vs 2H Backhand
18.2%2-9
27.3%3-8
Vs 1H Backhand
77.8%70-20
—
Vs Shorter
72.7%32-12
—
Vs Taller
76.5%362-111

Pressure Situations