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Ken Rosewall vs Syd Ball Head to Head Tennis Stats and Match Analysis

Ken Rosewall seasons:19801979197819771976
Syd Ball seasons:19821981198019791978
🇦🇺 Ken Rosewall
🇦🇺 Syd Ball
Age: 91y 274d (1934-11-02)
Hand: R
Backhand: nan
(1950-01-24) Age: 76y 191d
Hand: R
Backhand: nan
4 - 0
Wins: 100.0% - 0.0%
Hard 0–0Clay 1–0Grass 3–0
Others 2–0Slam 2–0
WWWW
LLLL

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🇦🇺Ken Rosewall and 🇦🇺Syd Ball have met 4 times. Ken Rosewall currently holds the upper hand, leading the series 4–0.

Looking at their individual career profiles, 🇦🇺Ken Rosewall has compiled an overall career record of 546–192 across 738 matches, translating to a win rate of 73.98%. On hard courts his record stands at 136–51 (72.73%), while on clay he holds a 134–36 (78.82%) mark. On grass the numbers read 145–39 (78.80%) , and on carpet 131–66 (66.50%). Throughout his career he has won 40 titles (10 hard, 14 clay, 8 grass, 8 carpet). Against Top 10 opponents his record reads 13–27 (32.50%).

🇦🇺Syd Ball, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 124–181 from 305 matches (40.66% win rate). His hard-court record is 16–37 (30.19%), on clay he stands at 13–34 (27.66%), and on grass he has gone 77–80 (49.04%) , with a carpet record of 18–30 (37.50%). Against Top 10 opponents his record stands at 0–12 (0.00%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. The clay record between them sits at 1–0 (100.00% for Ken Rosewall) across 1 matches. On grass, their 3 encounters have yielded a record of 3–0 (100.00% for Ken Rosewall).

Dateâ–¼
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
1978-10-09BrisbaneGrassR1624🇦🇺Ken Rosewall (3)276🇦🇺Syd Ball6-2 7-63------0/0
1977-01-01Australian Open-1GrassR6413🇦🇺Ken Rosewall89🇦🇺Syd Ball6-2 6-3 7-55------0/0
1975-12-26Australian OpenGrassR166🇦🇺Ken Rosewall (1)118🇦🇺Syd Ball3-6 7-6 6-0 6-45------0/0
1974-10-07Tokyo-2ClayR169🇦🇺Ken Rosewall90🇦🇺Syd Ball3-6 6-4 6-23------0/0

Wins

Ken Rosewall
Syd Ball
4–0Overall
2–0Grand Slam
2–0Others
1–0Clay
3–0Grass

Sets Format

100.0%2
0.0%0
Bo3
100.0%2
0.0%0
Bo5
100.0%1
0.0%0
2 Sets
100.0%2
0.0%0
3 Sets
100.0%1
0.0%0
4 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
5 Sets
Ken Rosewall
Syd Ball

Deciding

100.0%1
0.0%0
Decider Set
100.0%2
0.0%0
Tiebreak Wins
0.0%0
0.0%0
After 3 hours
Ken Rosewall
Syd Ball

Sets

83.3%10
16.7%2
All
85.7%6
14.3%1
Grand Slam
0.0%0
0.0%0
Masters 1000
0.0%0
0.0%0
Hard
88.9%8
11.1%1
Grass
66.7%2
33.3%1
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Ken Rosewall
Syd Ball

Games

60.0%69
40.0%46
All
61.2%41
38.8%26
Grand Slam
0.0%0
0.0%0
Masters 1000
0.0%0
0.0%0
Hard
61.4%54
38.6%34
Grass
55.6%15
44.4%12
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
Ken Rosewall
Syd Ball

Overview

By Surface

Ken Rosewall
Syd Ball

By Tournament Level

Ken Rosewall
Syd Ball

By Round

Ken Rosewall
Syd Ball

By Opponent Ranking

Ken RosewallSyd Ball
14.3%1-6
vs Top 1
0%0-1
30%6-14
vs Top 5
0%0-4
32.5%13-27
vs Top 10
0%0-12
39.7%29-44
vs Top 20
10.3%3-26
60.5%124-81
vs Top 100
17.2%21-101
90%63-7
vs +100
61.2%52-33
33.3%17-34
vs Higher
17.9%24-110
75.9%170-54
vs Lower
67.1%49-24

Opponent Breakdown

Ken RosewallSyd Ball
72.9%502-187
Vs Younger
38.8%52-82
82.1%23-5
Vs Older
29.5%41-98
76.3%453-141
Vs Right-Handed
35.9%90-161
61.4%81-51
Vs Left-Handed
35.7%10-18
11.1%1-8
Vs 2H Backhand
0%0-3
65.3%47-25
Vs 1H Backhand
16.7%2-10
50%2-2
Vs Shorter
20.2%21-83
67.1%340-167
Vs Taller
23.8%5-16

Pressure Situations