)He reached his last professional singles final (exhibition) at the Cairo Invitational losing to Bjorn Borg in two sets in December 1979 and played his last singles tournament in June 1982 at the Bristol Open losing to then South African player Johan Kriek, he retired in 1983.Following his playing career El Shafei remained involved in tennis in an administrative role he was elected president of the Egyptian Tennis Federation on two occasions (1994–96 and 2005–08).