Head to head
2
Hard
2
1
Clay
2
0
Grass
2
4
Carpet
2
Ismail El Shafei's wins on the left · Arthur Ashe's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
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.