Player Nour El Sherbini Country EGY Ranking 43 Last Ranking 45 Highest Ranking 42 ( Mar 2010 ) DATE OF BIRTH 1st Nov 1995 PLACE OF BIRTH ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT LIVES ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT COACH ROUSHDY MABROUK RACKET TECNIFIBRE STRINGS TECNIFIBRE SHOES ADIDAS HANDED RIGHT HANDED AGE BEGAN PLAYING 6 CLUB BASED AT SMOUHA CLUB, ALEXANDRIA TIMES PLAYED FOR COUNTRY JUNIOR: 1 SQUASH ACHIEVEMENTS 2009 BRITISH JUNIOR OPEN U15 CHAMPION, 2008 BRITISH JUNIOR OPEN U13 CHAMPION, 2007 BRITISH JUNIOR OPEN U13 CHAMPION BEST RESULTS SO FAR NO 1 U15 EGYPT RANKING AMBITIONS TO BE WORLD CHAMPION HOBBIES DRAWING, READING, MUSIC OTHER 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 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 tittles of the local tournaments in Egypt, till reaching the British open and my first international tittles. my first bjo title [British Junior Open] was such a push for more titles starting from under 13 years old till under 15, tittles 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.