Head to head
0
Hard
2
1
Clay
0
0
Grass
3
0
Carpet
1
Ismail El Shafei's wins on the left · Ilie Nastase's on the right · bar lengths share one scale
Momentum
Running lead across all meetings, oldest to newest (walkovers excluded).
All meetings (7)
| 1976 | Nottingham | Grass | QF | Ilie Nastase | 1-6 7-5 6-4 |
| 1975 | London-2 | Carpet | R16 | Ilie Nastase | 6-2 3-0 RET |
| 1975 | Paris | Hard | R32 | Ilie Nastase | 9-8 6-4 |
| 1975 | Tucson | Hard | R32 | Ilie Nastase | 6-3 6-2 |
| 1973 | London / Queen's Club | Grass | QF | Ilie Nastase | 6-0 6-3 |
| 1969 | US Open | Grass | R32 | Ilie Nastase | 6-0 1-0 RET |
| 1969 | Davis Cup EUR R1: ROU vs EGY | Clay | RR | Ismail El Shafei | 6-2 1-6 6-3 6-1 |
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.