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Drysdale wins on titles. Crealy’s case rests on games lost, but it isn’t enough to swing it. ATP Tour career: Crealy 650 matches, Drysdale 655 matches.
Drysdale has 8 titles (one every 33.3 matches) to Crealy’s 2 titles (one every 100 matches).
Drysdale averages 15.8 games won a match to Crealy’s 13.3 (19% more).
Drysdale averages 1 sets lost a match to Crealy’s 1.3.
Winners’ edge: Drysdale’s team won 62%, Crealy’s team won 52% of the matches they played.
Not every stat was recorded for every match (titles, finals, masters/1000 matches…): those averages use only the games that logged them.
Built only from games in our stats database. A read of the numbers, not a tip.
Tale of the tape
Per game. Totals and best single game underneath.
0.02 total · best 1Titlesper game0.08 total · best 1
13.38,670 total · best 37Games wonper game15.810,357 total · best 99
51.6Sets won %59.2
50.7Games won %52.7
0.04 total · best 1Finalsper game0.127 total · best 1
1.4883 total · best 3Sets wonper game1.5949 total · best 3
Head to head
28 matches since 19686
Carpet · 3 matchesCrealy 0Drysdale 3
Clay · 3 matchesCrealy 1Drysdale 2
Hard · 1 matchCrealy 0Drysdale 1
Grass · 1 matchCrealy 1Drysdale 0
Last meetings
15 Oct 1979 · Sydney Indoor · Round of 32 · HardDrysdale won 6-4 6-3
9 Jan 1978 · Birmingham WCT · Round of 32 · CarpetDrysdale won 7-6 6-3
2 Feb 1976 · Barcelona WCT · Semifinal · CarpetDrysdale won 2-6 7-6(5) 6-0
9 Nov 1970 · Paris Indoor · Round of 32 · CarpetDrysdale won 6-3 6-3
15 June 1970 · London / Queen's Club · Round of 16 · GrassCrealy won 6-4 6-1
19 May 1969 · Berlin · Round of 16 · ClayDrysdale won 6-3 7-5 6-4
28 Apr 1969 · Bournemouth · Round of 32 · ClayCrealy won
Last 10 games
Titles, oldest to newest.
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1.3828 total · best 3Sets lostper game · lower is better1654 total · best 3
13.08,425 total · best 39Games lostper game · lower is better14.29,300 total · best 74
0.3167 total · best 3Tiebreaksper game0.2130 total · best 3
0.182 total · best 1Grand Slam matchesper game0.147 total · best 1
0.114 total · best 1Masters/1000 matchesper game0.17 total · best 1
0.15 total · best 1Davis/BJK Cup matchesper game–
0.07 total · best 1Retired hurtper game · lower is better–
6-8 7-5 2-6 6-4 6-4
13 Aug 1968 · Hamburg · Round of 32 · ClayDrysdale won 10-8 7-5 6-8 8-6
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