Amr Shabana

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Amr Shabana Squash player
Amr Shabana
Nickname: The maestro
Nationality: EgyptEgypt Egypt
Birthday: 20th July 1979
Size: 174 cm
Weight: 72 kg
1st professional season: 1995
Resignation: 2015
Playing hand: Left
successes
Career title: 33
Career finals: 46
Best placement: 1 (April 2006)
Month # 1: 33
World championship title: 4th
Sources: official player profiles at PSA and Squashinfo (see web links )

Amr Shabana ( Arabic عمرو شبانة, DMG ʿAmr Šabāna ; * July 20, 1979 in Cairo ) is a former Egyptian squash player . He won the world championship four times and in April 2006 reached first position in the world rankings for the first time.

Career

Shabana surprised in December 2003 when he won his first world title in ninth place . In the final, he defeated French Thierry Lincou 3-1, making him the first Egyptian to win this title. The second world title followed two years later: with a clear 3-0 he defeated his opponent David Palmer , against whom he was eliminated in the quarter-finals last year. In 2007 and 2009 Shabana won his third and fourth world championships. With 3-0 each he won against Grégory Gaultier in 2007 and against Ramy Ashour in 2009 . In 2009 the Egyptian national team around captain Shabana won the team world championship for the second time. Shabana was part of the Egyptian squad when he won the title for the first time in 1999 . He was also on the squad in 2001 , 2003 , 2005 and 2007 . His numerous other titles include victories at the PSA Masters , the Tournament of Champions in New York City and the US Open . He never won the British Open Squash Championships . As the first Egyptian ever, Shabana became world number one in April 2006. Only in January 2009 did he lose this position after 33 months in a row at the top of the world to his compatriot Karim Darwish . In the 2011/12 season he won the PSA World Series Finals for the first time against Grégory Gaultier and repeated this success the following year against Nick Matthew . In December 2013 Shabana was represented in the top ten of the world rankings for a total of ten years.

In August 2015 he announced the end of his career. Shortly afterwards he was hired as the national coach of the Egyptian national team.

Private

He is married and has three children. His sister Salma was also a squash player.

successes

Web links

Commons : Amr Shabana  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Open 2005 ( Memento from January 12, 2009 in the web archive archive.today ), Squashsite.co.uk from December 4, 2005
  2. ↑ World Open 2007 ( Memento of May 26th, 2009 in the web archive archive.today ), Squashsite.co.uk of December 1st, 2007
  3. ↑ World Open 2009 ( memento of November 10, 2009 in the web archive archive.today ), Worldopensquash.com of November 7, 2009
  4. ↑ Shabana Marks Ten Years In World Top 10 , psaworldtour.com, December 1, 2013. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  5. ^ Shabana Hall of Fame , squashsite.co.uk. Retrieved September 2, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Shabana, Amr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian athlete
DATE OF BIRTH 20th July 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo , Egypt