Head to head
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Hard
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Carpet
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Ismail El Shafei's wins on the left · Rod Laver's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (10)
| 1975 | Denver WCT | Carpet | R16 | Ismail El Shafei | 7-6(6) 7-5 |
| 1975 | Caracas WCT | Hard | QF | Rod Laver | 7-5 6-3 |
| 1975 | Carlsbad WCT | Hard | QF | Rod Laver | 7-6(5) 4-6 6-2 |
| 1975 | St. Petersburg WCT | Carpet | R16 | Rod Laver | 7-6(5) 6-2 |
| 1972 | Vancouver WCT | Carpet | R32 | Ismail El Shafei | 3-6 6-1 6-0 |
| 1972 | Boston WCT | Hard | R16 | Rod Laver | 6-3 6-2 |
| 1971 | Boston WCT | Hard | R16 | Rod Laver | 4-6 6-2 6-2 |
| 1970 | St. Louis | Hard | QF | Rod Laver | 6-2 5-7 6-1 |
| 1970 | London-1 | Carpet | R16 | Ismail El Shafei | 6-3 6-3 |
| 1970 | Salisbury | Hard | QF | Ismail El Shafei | 6-3 10-8 |
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.