Omneya Abdel Kawy

Omneya Abdel Kawy
Omneya Abdel Kawy
Country	Egypt
Residence	Maadi, Cairo
Born	August 15, 1985 (1985-08-15) (age 26) Giza, Egypt
Height	1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Turned Pro	1999
Plays	Right Handed
Coached by	Hesham El Attar Mohamed Medhat Ahmed Faragallah Dr. Hany Wahba
Racquet used	Unsquashable
Women's singles
Highest ranking	No. 6[1] (March, 2010[1])
Current ranking	No. 18[1] (November, 2011[1])
Title(s)	4
Tour final(s)	9
Medal record Competitor for  Egypt Squash World Games Bronze 2009 Kaohsiung Individual
Last updated on: January 7, 2010.

Omneya Abdel Kawy (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.

See also

• Official Women's Squash World Ranking

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Omneya Abdel Kawy (Egypt) ID: I". http://www.horizon-sport.com/wb/wb1/wispa/ranking/4411023.htm. Retrieved 19 March 2010. 

External links

• Omneya Abdel Kawy profile on the WISPA
• Omneya Abdel Kawy profile on SquashInfo

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Name	Abdel Kawy, Omneya
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Date of birth	1985-08-15
Place of birth	Giza, Egypt
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