Ismail El Shafei’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Tennis player
Is Athlete
Tennis player
From Egypt
Type Sports
Gender male
Birth

15 November 1947, Cairo

Age 73 years
Star sign Scorpio
Residence Cairo

Ismail El-Shafei (Arabic: إسماعيل الشافعي‎‎) (born 15 November 1947) is a former Head of the Egyptian Tennis Federation and a member of the International Tennis Federation. El Shafei is the only Egyptian player to make the Top 40 in Grand Prix/ATP ranking history. He had the distinction of being one of only four players to beat Björn Borg at Wimbledon, knocking him out in the third round in 1974 (the other three were John McEnroe, Roger Taylor and Arthur Ashe.)
El-Shafei won the 1964 Boys’ Singles tournament at Wimbledon.
He is the son of Adli El Shafei and father of Adli El Shafei II.

Singles (1)

Year Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score in final
1974 Manila, Philippine Hard Hans-Jürgen Pohmann 7–6, 6–1

Doubles (9)

Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponents in final Score in final
1974 St. Louis WCT, U.S. Clay Brian Fairlie Geoff Masters
Ross Case		 7–6, 6–7, 7–6
1974 Christchurch, New Zealand N/A Roscoe Tanner Syd Ball
Ray Ruffels		 w/o
1974 Jakarta, Indonesia Hard Roscoe Tanner Jurgen Fassbender
Hans-Jürgen Pohmann		 7–5, 6–3
1976 ATP Sydney Indoor, Australia Hard (i) Brian Fairlie Syd Ball
Kim Warwick		 7–5, 6–7, 7–6
1977 Newport, U.S. Grass Brian Fairlie Tim Gullikson
Tom Gullikson		 6–7, 6–3, 7–6
1978 Cairo, Egypt Clay Brian Fairlie Lito Álvarez
George Hardie		 6–3, 7–5, 6–2
1980 Cairo, Egypt Clay Tom Okker Christophe Freyss
Bernard Fritz		 6–3, 3–6, 6–3
1980 Gstaad, Switzerland Clay Colin Dowdeswell Mark Edmondson
Kim Warwick		 6–4, 6–4
1981 Cairo, Egypt Clay Balázs Taróczy Paolo Bertolucci
Gianni Ocleppo		 6–7, 6–3, 6–1

Grand Slam Success

Won Wimbledon Championship for Boys 1964 & was Runner Up in 1963

Tournament 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 Career SR Career W–L Career Win %
Grand Slam Tournaments
Australian Open A A A 3R A A A A A A 1R A A 0 / 2 2–2 33.33
French Open A 3R A A A 1R 2R 1R 1R 2R 1R A A 0 / 7 4–7 36.36
Wimbledon 2R 1R 3R 1R A A QF 2R 3R 1R 1R 1R 1R 0 / 11 10–11 47.61
US Open A 3R 1R 1R A 3R 4R A 2R A A A A 0 / 6 8–6 53.33
Win–Loss 1–1 4–3 2–2 2–3 0–0 2–2 8–3 1–2 3–3 1–2 0–3 0–1 0–1 0 / 26 24–26 48.00

Davis Cup

El Shafei participated in 17 ties for Egypt, where he played 42 matches.

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