TENNISGOAT

Head to head

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Rivalry summary

Cliff Drysdale and Ismail El Shafei met 7 times on the ATP tour between 1971 and 1974. Cliff Drysdale leads the head-to-head 6–1 against Ismail El Shafei. By surface, Drysdale leads 2–1 on clay; Drysdale leads 3–0 on carpet.

🇿🇦 Cliff Drysdale

6

8 titles · 0 Slams

🇪🇬 Ismail El Shafei

1

1 titles · 0 Slams

2
Clay
1
1
Grass
0
3
Carpet
0

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

Momentum

Cliff Drysdale leads ↑ Ismail El Shafei leads ↓

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

All meetings (7)

1974 Richmond WCT Carpet R16 Cliff Drysdale 6-2 6-4
1972 Louisville WCT Clay R16 Cliff Drysdale 6-3 6-4
1972 Denver WCT Carpet R32 Cliff Drysdale 7-5 6-2
1972 Richmond WCT Carpet R32 Cliff Drysdale 6-1 7-5
1971 Bristol WCT Grass R32 Cliff Drysdale 4-6 6-4 6-4
1971 Brussels Clay SF Cliff Drysdale 6-4 6-0 6-2
1971 Tehran WCT Clay R32 Ismail El Shafei 3-6 6-4 7-6
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.