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John Newcombe vs Zeljko Franulovic Head to Head Tennis Stats and Match Analysis

John Newcombe seasons:19811980197919781977
Zeljko Franulovic seasons:19831982198119801979
🇦🇺 John Newcombe
🇭🇷 Zeljko Franulovic
Age: 81y 300d (1944-05-23)
Hand: R
Backhand: nan
(1947-06-13) Age: 78y 279d
Hand: R
Backhand: 1H
2 - 1
Wins: 66.7% - 33.3%
Hard 0–0Clay 0–1Grass 0–0
Others 21
LWW
WLL

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🇦🇺John Newcombe and 🇭🇷Zeljko Franulovic have met 3 times. John Newcombe currently holds the upper hand, leading the series 21.

Looking at their individual career profiles, 🇦🇺John Newcombe has compiled an overall career record of 568227 across 795 matches, translating to a win rate of 71.45%. On hard courts his record stands at 14953 (73.76%), while on clay he holds a 13457 (70.16%) mark. On grass the numbers read 16445 (78.47%) , and on carpet 12172 (62.69%). Throughout his career he has won 41 titles (16 hard, 7 clay, 7 grass, 11 carpet). Against Top 10 opponents his record reads 2030 (40.00%).

🇭🇷Zeljko Franulovic, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 414310 from 724 matches (57.18% win rate). His hard-court record is 3352 (38.82%), on clay he stands at 305167 (64.62%), and on grass he has gone 1011 (47.62%) , with a carpet record of 5575 (42.31%). He has accumulated 13 titles in total (11 clay, 2 carpet). Against Top 10 opponents his record stands at 539 (11.36%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. The clay record between them sits at 10 (100.00% for Zeljko Franulovic) across 1 matches.

Date
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
1978-03-13Washington-1CarpetR3225🇦🇺John Newcombe41🇭🇷Zeljko Franulovic3-6 6-4 7-53------0/0
1974-04-01New Orleans WCTCarpetSF2🇦🇺John Newcombe (1)48🇭🇷Zeljko Franulovic6-4 6-13------0/0
1969-05-12BrusselsClaySF-🇭🇷Zeljko Franulovic-🇦🇺John Newcombe9-7 3-6 6-2 8-65------0/0

Wins

John Newcombe
Zeljko Franulovic
21Overall
21Others
01Clay
20Indoor Hard

Sets Format

100.0%2
0.0%0
Bo3
0.0%0
100.0%1
Bo5
100.0%1
0.0%0
2 Sets
100.0%1
0.0%0
3 Sets
0.0%0
100.0%1
4 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
5 Sets
John Newcombe
Zeljko Franulovic

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
John Newcombe
Zeljko Franulovic

Sets

55.6%5
44.4%4
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
25.0%1
75.0%3
Clay
80.0%4
20.0%1
Carpet
John Newcombe
Zeljko Franulovic

Games

51.6%49
48.4%46
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
44.7%21
55.3%26
Clay
58.3%28
41.7%20
Carpet
John Newcombe
Zeljko Franulovic

Overview

By Surface

John Newcombe
Zeljko Franulovic

By Tournament Level

John Newcombe
Zeljko Franulovic

By Round

John Newcombe
Zeljko Franulovic

By Opponent Ranking

John NewcombeZeljko Franulovic
40%2-3
vs Top 1
0%0-2
27.3%6-16
vs Top 5
11.8%2-15
40%20-30
vs Top 10
11.4%5-39
41.7%35-49
vs Top 20
18.8%16-69
65%156-84
vs Top 100
40.3%108-160
91.4%53-5
vs +100
75%99-33
32.8%19-39
vs Higher
31.9%59-126
79.2%190-50
vs Lower
68.8%148-67

Opponent Breakdown

John NewcombeZeljko Franulovic
74.3%309-107
Vs Younger
54.3%197-166
66.1%234-120
Vs Older
55.8%179-142
73%463-171
Vs Right-Handed
57.1%350-263
63.2%96-56
Vs Left-Handed
48.4%44-47
45.5%5-6
Vs 2H Backhand
20%1-4
59.4%41-28
Vs 1H Backhand
37.1%23-39
58.5%120-85
Vs Shorter
68.7%160-73
Vs Taller

Pressure Situations