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John Newcombe #2 def. Cliff Richey #28

6-4 6-3 6-4

Match Information

Date	Oct 26, 1974*
Tournament	Sydney Indoor
Category	ATP 250
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	John Newcombe
Score	6-4 6-3 6-4
Loser	Cliff Richey

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	John Newcombe	Cliff Richey
Country	AUS	USA
Birth date	May 23, 1944	Dec 31, 1946
Age	30	27
Height	183	175
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	—	—
Ranking (entering)	2	28
Ranking points (entering)	—	—
Elo (entering)	2,171	1,921
Career W-L	556–224	488–224
Career earnings	$1,062,408	$7,500

Pre-match H2H

John Newcombe 3 – 1 Cliff Richey

Path

John Newcombe's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 25, 1974	SF	Tony Roche	4-6 6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 25, 1974	QF	Onny Parun	7-6 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 24, 1974	R16	Mike Estep	6-1 7-6	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 23, 1974	R32	Ray Ruffels	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

John Newcombe's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Cliff Richey's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Oct 25, 1974	SF	Ken Rosewall	7-6 5-7 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 25, 1974	QF	Roscoe Tanner	5-7 6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 24, 1974	R16	Grover Raz Reid	6-1 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Oct 23, 1974	R32	Jeff Austin	6-1 6-4	W	—	Match data