Fawzi El-Abrashy

Fawzi El-Abrashy is a retired Egyptian table tennis player .

Career

El-Abrashy took part in a total of six world championships between 1951 and 1969 , with his greatest successes in men's doubles. During his first participation in 1951 in the Austrian capital Vienna , he and his partner Abdel Hay Abou Heif reached the quarter-finals, where they failed at 20:22, 9:21, 16:21 against the Englishmen Johnny Leach / Jack Carrington . With his partner Mohamed Safaa El-Abrashy came in 1959 in Dortmund in the round of 16 and was eliminated there against the Swedish pairing Hans Alsér / Åke Rakell in five sets. In both tournaments no African pair achieved a better result in the men's doubles.

In addition, the Egyptian won gold in all four disciplines at the 1956 Arab Championships, ten years later gold in the men's team competition and silver in the individual. At the African Championships in 1962 and 1964 , El-Abrashy won silver in singles and mixed doubles (1962 with Ines El-Darwish , 1964 with Naila Naser ), and gold in men's doubles (1962 with Adel Fahmy , 1964 with Monir El -Kirdani ) and with the men's team.

Results

competition	year	place	singles	Double	Mixed	team
Arab championship	1956	Alexandria	gold	gold	gold	gold
Arab championship	1966	Amman	silver			gold
African Championship	1962	Alexandria	silver	gold	silver	gold
African Championship	1964	Accra	silver	gold	silver	gold
World Championship	1951	Vienna	Round of 128	Quarter finals	dnp
World Championship	1954	Wembley	Round of 64	Round of 64	Round of 32	13.
World Championship	1955	Utrecht	Round of 128	Round of 64	Round of 64	17th
World Championship	1959	Dortmund	Round of 256	Round of 16	dnp	14th
World Championship	1963	Prague	Round of 128	scratched	dnp	21st
World Championship	1969	Munich	Round of 64	scratched	dnp

Web links

• Fawzi El-Abrashy biography on the website of the table tennis world association ittf.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} EL-ABRASHY Fawzi (EGY) - M. In: old.ittf.com (accessed February 20, 2019).