J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions 2020 Program

TURNED PRO
RESIDES
PSA TITLES
BORN
2002
Cairo, Egypt
24
01/01/89
RANEEM
EL WELILY
NO.1
Raneem El Welily brought an end to Nicol David’s legendary 13-year
dominance of the women’s squash rankings in September 2015,
becoming the first Egyptian woman in history to be ranked World No.1
in any sport.
El Welily enjoyed a thrilling 2018 campaign, winning major titles at El
Gouna International, the China Open in Shanghai and Philadelphia’s
U.S. Open and reaching the finals in Hong Kong and San Francisco.
Her success boosted her back to No. 1, a pinnacle she first achieved in
2015. Her 2019 results were equally glittering. The charismatic star,
who once gave a TED Talk in Cairo, won the Black Ball Open in Cairo
and the DPD Open in the Netherlands, defended her titles at El Gouna
and Shanghai, took the next step to win San Francisco and finished No.
1 at the season-ending World Tour Finals. She was runner up in the
2019 World Championship to rival Nour ElSherbini, who is also her
teammate on the multi-Gold Medal winning Egyptian National Team.
Her personal interest in jigsaw puzzles translates well for squash match
tactics, while her two-year marriage to PSA men’s star Tarek Momen
ensures good company as the pair travel the PSA World
Tour together.
TURNED PRO
2009
NOUR
EL SHERBINI
NO.2
RESIDES
Alexandria,
Egypt
PSA TITLES
12
BORN
11/01/95
Twenty-four-year-old Nour El Sherbini is a squash phenom with four
World Championship titles already in her trophy cabinet.
Most recently, El Sherbini won the 2018/2019 World Championship
in March in Chicago and then doubled down to win the 2019 World
Championship at the iconic glass court at the foot of the Great
Pyramids of Giza in November.
El Sherbini’s major Pro Tour breakthrough came in 2016, with a maiden
World Series Platinum title in January’s J.P. Morgan Tournament of
Champions. She then became the first female Egyptian to win the iconic
British Open crown just two months later. Even greater things awaited
in April, when the Alexandria-born El Sherbini became the youngest
World Champion of all time, becoming the first Egyptian to win the
pinnacle tournament on the Women’s Tour in the process.
In May 2016 she became the second youngest female ever to reach the
World No. 1 spot. She went on to win her second PSA Women’s World
Championship title later that year at the age of just 21, defeating rival
Raneem El Welily in the final on home soil at El Gouna on the Red Sea.
In 2018, “The Warrior Princess” won the British Open again and took
the season ending honors at the ATCO World Tour Finals in Dubai to
end the year at No. 2, a position she defended throughout 2019.