Nour El Tayeb

Nour El Tayeb

Country	Egypt
Residence	Cairo, Egypt
Born	March 8, 1993 Cairo, Egypt
Turned Pro	2007
Retired	Active
Plays	Right Handed
Coached by	Haitham Effat Hossam Shaddad
Racquet used	Head
Women's singles
Highest ranking	No. 5 (April, 2015)
Current ranking	No. 7 (January, 2016)
Title(s)	3
Tour final(s)	4
Medal record Women's squash Representing  Egypt World Team Championships 2012 Nîmes Team 2014 Niagara-on-the-Lake Team
Last updated on: January, 2016.

Nour El Tayeb, (born March 8, 1993 in Cairo) is a professional squash player who represents Egypt. She reached a career-high world ranking of five in April, 2015.^[1][2] El Tayeb – daughter of a squash playing father, Prof. Dr. Mohamed El Tayeb – she was born and raised in Cairo and started playing at age five at the Heliopolis Club, where she continues to be based.

The highlight of her junior career was, at age sixteen, reaching the final of the World Juniors in 2009, beating top seed Dipika Pallikal on the way before losing to fellow Egyptian Nour El Sherbini.

But as early as 2007 she began to show just her potential by reaching the main draw of the Hurghada International. Since then, despite study taking the upper hand over squash she has continued to improve. In Alexandria in 2008 she did well against former world champion Vanessa Atkinson before the Dutchwoman won in five, and in the 2009 World Open upset the form book to reach the main draw. This result helped her reach the WISPA top 50 for the first time, with the top twenty as the next target for El Tayeb.

She says that her ambition is to play against the top five and then become one of them.^[3]

Squash achievements

• Winner – WISPA Young Player of the Year 2010 ^[4]
• Winner – Internationaux De Creteil, Paris, France
• Winner – British Junior Open U13, U15, U17, and U19
• Winner – Pioneer U11 and U13
• Winner – First National Championships U11 and U15
• Winner - World Junior Champion 2011

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	2014	Nicol David	11-4, 12-10, 11-8

U.S. Open: 1 final (0 title, 1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	2015	Laura Massaro	11-6, 9-11, 6-11, 11-8, 11-7

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

Outcome	Year	Opponent in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	2014	Raneem El Weleily	7-11, 11-3, 12-10, 2-11, 11-7

References

1. WISPA Player Profile
2. SquashInfo Player Profile
3. Biography
4. World Squash Awards

External links

• Nour El Tayeb profile from WISPA (archived)
• Nour El Tayeb profile from WSA (archived)
• Nour El Tayeb profile from SquashInfo