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Head to head

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Rivalry summary

Arthur Ashe and Ismail El Shafei met 15 times on the ATP tour between 1968 and 1975. Arthur Ashe leads the head-to-head 8–7 against Ismail El Shafei. By surface, they are level 2–2 on hard; Ashe leads 2–1 on clay; Ashe leads 2–0 on grass; Shafei leads 4–2 on carpet.

🇺🇸 Arthur Ashe

8

45 titles · 3 Slams

🇪🇬 Ismail El Shafei

7

1 titles · 0 Slams

2
Hard
2
2
Clay
1
2
Grass
0
2
Carpet
4

Arthur Ashe's wins on the left · Ismail El Shafei's on the right · bar lengths share one scale

Momentum

Arthur Ashe leads ↑ Ismail El Shafei leads ↓

Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).

All meetings (15)

1975 Stockholm-2 Hard R64 Arthur Ashe 6-4 6-3
1973 Washington WCT Carpet R32 Arthur Ashe 6-3 6-7 6-0
1973 Cologne WCT Carpet R16 Ismail El Shafei 6-7 6-3 6-2
1972 Essen WCT Carpet QF Ismail El Shafei 6-3 6-4
1972 Cleveland WCT Carpet R16 Ismail El Shafei 6-4 6-7 6-3
1972 Charlotte WCT Clay R32 Ismail El Shafei 6-4 6-1
1972 Quebec WCT Carpet R32 Arthur Ashe 6-4 6-2
1972 Houston WCT Clay R32 Arthur Ashe 6-3 7-6
1971 Vancouver WCT Carpet R32 Ismail El Shafei 1-6 6-3 6-4
1971 Fort Worth WCT Hard R32 Ismail El Shafei 2-6 6-4 6-4
1971 Miami WCT Hard R32 Ismail El Shafei 6-3 6-3
1970 Boston Hard R16 Arthur Ashe 6-3 6-4
1970 Wimbledon Grass R32 Arthur Ashe 6-3 6-1 2-6 6-0
1969 Washington Clay SF Arthur Ashe 6-3 8-6
1968 Wimbledon Grass R64 Arthur Ashe 6-1 6-2 9-7
Methodology

Head-to-head totals and surface splits exclude walkovers (no match was played), which follows ATP convention — walkover meetings still appear in the match list. The momentum chart plots the running lead across all counted meetings, oldest to newest.