Head to head
1
Clay
3
1
Grass
0
Ismail El Shafei's wins on the left · Paolo Bertolucci's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
All meetings (5)
| 1981 | Florence | Clay | R32 | Paolo Bertolucci | 7-6 6-2 |
| 1976 | Toronto-2 | Clay | R64 | Paolo Bertolucci | 6-3 4-6 6-3 |
| 1975 | Tehran | Clay | R32 | Ismail El Shafei | 2-6 6-2 6-1 |
| 1973 | Barcelona-2 | Clay | R64 | Paolo Bertolucci | 7-5 2-0 RET |
| 1973 | London / Queen's Club | Grass | R16 | Ismail El Shafei | 6-4 6-4 |
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.