Nour El Sherbini

Nour El Sherbini, (born November 1, 1995) is a Professional squash player who represented Egypt. She won the prestigious British Junior Open Under-13 category in 2009.^[1] On the 2nd of August 2009, Sherbini creates squash history when she won the women's title in the World Junior (U-19) Squash Championships to become the sport's youngest ever world champion at the age of just 13.^[2] On the 28th of November 2009, Sherbini was awarded Young WISPA Squash player of the year for the year 2009.

Nour was born and has been raised in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. She started playing squash when she was six years of age, and was already participating in tournaments before she was eight.

Her brother Omar el Sherbini played an important role to keep her interested in squash as she would spend time watching him and learning from his sessions.But she confirms that sport runs all through her family. 'My father used to be a football player and a good swimmer. Also my mum was a good athlete'

Interestingly, there was never a competing sport for her time. It was squash aged six and nothing else has been added.

As she explains: 'By time I gained more confidence and become more steady that made me able to win most of the titles of the local tournaments in Egypt, till reaching the British open and my first international titles. my first bjo title [British Junior Open] was such a push for more titles starting from under 13 years old till under 15, titles in a row.

Only a few months after her thirteenth birthday she joined WISPA in early 2009, and in April announced her arrival by only losing to world top liner Engy Kheirallah in a tight 3/1. at the Heliopolis Open. Having reached the final of the ATCO Miro event in June, also in Cairo, it was only another strong performance from Kheirallah that thwarted her bid for a first WISPA Tour title.

But then came the World Junior Individual in Chennai, India, in which she caused a sensation by becoming world under 19 champion at the age of 13.

As she explained: 'Reaching the most important moment of my life, I was chosen to represent Egypt in the world open junior championship taking place in Chennai, India. To win the title was a dream, but to take it and feel the taste of victory was a dream came true. Adding the World Team title made it looks extraordinary'.

It may be stating the obvious, but this delightful girl with a prodigious talent and a maturity of play beyond her years is likely to build from these early successes and become another enduring WISPA junior and senior star.^[3]

She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 25 in October 2010.^[4][5]

References

External links

• Nour El Sherbini profile on the WISPA
• Nour El Sherbini profile on SquashInfo