Raneem El Weleily

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Raneem El Weleily
Country: Egypt
Residence: Alexandria, Egypt
Plays: Right-Handed
Racquet: Harrow
Turned pro: 2003
Highest World Ranking: 21 (October 2006)
Current World Ranking: 24 (February 2007)
WIPSA Tour Finals: 2


Raneem El Weleily (born 1 January 1989, in Alexandria, Egypt) is a professional squash player from Egypt. She won the World Junior Championship in Belgium 2005.

Of course the highlight of Raneem’s junior career was becoming world junior champion in Herentals, Belgium in 2005. But to start at the beginning, Raneem was born and has grown up in the Egyptian Mediterranean city of Alexandria. She followed her brother into squash at the age of six…..but maintains that she started spectating two years younger still while watching her brother practice!

Already, she has been able to benefit from the support of many talented coaches. First there was Ahmed Abdallah, then the late Ahmed Safwat. Latterly, Ahmed Taher, the head coach of the Egyptian Squash Federation. Currently, she is training with Medhat Galal and Mossad Abdelwahab.

Overall, her progress is monitored by manager Omar Elborollosy, training at his squash acadmey in Cairo during the weekends, coupled with weekday time with Amir Wagih.

Amazingly, Raneem first played for Egypt in the World Juniors 2001 in Penang, aged ten. Two years later when the event was played in Cairo she was part of the Egyptian winning squad, and in 2004 represented the senior team that came fourth in the World Teams in Amsterdam.

When she won the World Junior Championship in Belgium in 2005 she rated it as her proudest moment, but everybody in squash thinks that there will be more to come. They include the WISPA membership as a whole who voted her their WISPA Young Player of the Year for both 2004 and 2005.

Between training sessions she studies at the German School in Alexandria and also finds time to indulge her interests of music, jigsaw puzzles (which she buys from all over the world) and has recently became a sudoko addict!

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