Omneya Abdel Kawy

Omneya Abdel Kawy

Omneya Abdel Kawy
Country  Egypt
Residence Maadi, Cairo
Born (1985-08-15) August 15, 1985
Giza, Egypt
Height 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Turned Pro 1999
Plays Right Handed
Coached by Hesham El Attar, Mohamed Abbas, Ahmed Mohsen, Mohamed Ali
Racquet used Harrow
Women's singles
Highest ranking No. 4 (October, 2010)
Current ranking No. 6 (January, 2016)
Title(s) 8
Tour final(s) 28
World Open F (2010)
Medal record
Women's squash
Representing  Egypt
World Team Championships
2008 Cairo Team
2012 Nîmes Team
2006 Edmontonn Team
2014 Niagara-on-the-Lake Team
World Games
2005 Duisburg Women's singles
2009 Kaohsiung Women's singles
Last updated on: January, 2016.

Omneya Abdel Kawy (Arabic: أمنية عبد القوي; born 15 August 1985, in Cairo) is an Egyptian professional squash player.

Omneya won the World Junior Championship in Egypt 2003. Omneya crowned a sparkling junior career in 2003 in her home city of Cairo when she lifted the World Junior title after having been the runner up to Nicol David in 1999 and 2001. Such was her precocious talent that she was already competing on the WISPA Tour in her mid teens. Her success has been amply evidenced by her having already reached a high of seven in the world rankings earlier in 2005.

The highlight of 2005 was reaching match ball against world number one Rachael Grinham in the final of the Hurghada International in her home country though she eventually lost the match. She also reached another two finals, in Greenwich and Dayton, both in the United States, and finished as a runner up. Omneya then won the Marsh McLennan title by beating Vicky Botwright. Since then she has continued to be a threat to all the top players, her astute tactical brain and range of shots causing problems to everybody she meets.

2006 saw Omneya avenged the Hurghada loss the previous year when she turned the tables in a pulsating Hurghada final to win the event in front of ecstatic home supporters.

Recently, she won the 2007 EBS Dayton Open by beating Jaclyn Hawkes of New Zealand with a score of 9–5, 9–5, 3–9 and 9–5.

World Open

Finals: 1 (0 title, 1 runner-up)

Outcome Year Location Opponent in the final Score in the final
Runner-up 2010 Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Malaysia Nicol David 11–5, 11–8, 11–6

Major World Series final appearances

Hong Kong Open: 1 final (0 title, 1 runner-up)

Outcome Year Opponent in the final Score in the final
Runner-up 2009 Malaysia Nicol David 11-4, 11-7, 11-7

See also


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