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Raneem El Weleily
Egyptian squash player

Raneem El Weleily

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Egyptian squash player
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Ranem Mohamed Yasser Saad El Din El Weleily (Arabic: رنيم محمد ياسر سعد الدين الوليلي‎‎; born 1 January 1989, in Alexandria, Egypt) is a professional squash player from Egypt.

Junior career

Alexandria-born Raneem El Welily has emerged as one of the most skillful players on the PSA Women’s World Tour since she turned professional in 2002. Raneem followed her brother into squash at the age of six and first played for Egypt in the World Juniors 2001 in Penang, then aged ten.

Two years later when the event was played in Cairo she was part of the Egyptian winning squad, and in 2004 she represented the senior team that came fourth in the World Teams in Amsterdam.

The highlight of Raneem’s junior career is when she became the world junior champion in Herentals, Belgium in 2005. Then she was voted WISPA Young Player of the Year for 2005 for the second time after winning it in 2004. She lifted the World Junior Championship twice, in 2005 and 2007

Career

Raneem El Weleily won her first senior Tour title in 2009 when she triumphed at the Heliopolis Open in Egypt.

That win helped catapult her into the world's top twenty and, after making the semi-finals of the Malaysian Open despite being a qualifier, she promptly rose into the top ten. The Egyptian shot-maker doubled her Tour title tally in 2011 and four months later won the biggest event of her career so far, by topping then-World No.2 Jenny Duncalf to lift the prestigious Carol Weymuller Open.

2012 saw El Welily reach World No.2 for the first time and in September of that year she won her first World Series title by defeating World No.1 Nicol David in the final in the CIMB Malaysian Open. David got her revenge in the US Open a month later before the Egyptian stunned the Malaysian again in the 2013 Cleveland Classic final to lift another crown. El Welily amassed three runner-up spots in the remainder of 2013, with David winning all three, before she won her second Malaysian Open title in 2014, beating Nour El Tayeb in the final.

She reached the final of the World Championship in December 2014 but David proved to be a stumbling block once more as she denied El Welily squash's biggest crown. Undeterred, El Welily had a terrific opening to 2015 as she won the Tournament of Champions, the Windy City Open and the Alexandria International to close the gap on David’s hold on the World No.1 ranking. In May 2015 she was named as the PSA Women's Player of the year for the 2014/15 season. In September 2015, Raneem surpassed David to clinch the World No.1 ranking in the PSA Women's World Ranking.

Raneem graduated from the German School in Alexandria and between training sessions she also finds time to indulge her interests of music, jigsaw puzzles (which she buys from all over the world) and has recently become a sudoku addict.

Raneem's titles

OutcomeYearTournamentLocationOpponent in the finalScore in the final
Winner2011Carol Weymuller OpenBrooklyn, United StatesEngland Jenny Duncalf11-7, 15-13, 11-4
Winner2011Hurghada InternationalHurghada, EgyptEgypt Omneya Abdel Kawy11-5, 12-10, 11-9
Winner2012Women's Malaysian Open Squash ChampionshipsKuala Lumpur, MalaysiaMalaysia Nicol David12-10, 11-13, 11-6, 11-2
Winner2012Greenwich OpenNew York City, United StatesNew Zealand Joelle King11-8, 11-8, 6-11, 11-4
Winner2013Cleveland ClassicCleveland, United StatesMalaysia Nicol David3-11, 11-5, 9-11, 11-5, 11-9
Winner2014Women's Malaysian Open Squash ChampionshipsKuala Lumpur, MalaysiaEgypt Nour El Tayeb7–11, 11–3, 12–10, 2–11, 11–7
Winner2015Tournament of ChampionsNew York City, United StatesEngland Alison Waters9–11, 12–10, 11–4, 11–4
Winner2015Metro Squash Windy City OpenChicago, United StatesMalaysia Nicol David12–14, 12–10, 11–7, 11–7
Winner2015Alexandria InternationalAlexandria, EgyptEgypt Omneya Abdel Kawy11–6, 11–5, 11–9
Winner2015China OpenShanghai, ChinaEgypt Nouran Gohar13–11, 11–7, 11–7
Winner2016Metro Squash Windy City OpenChicago, United StatesEgypt Nour El Sherbini9–11, 11–6, 11–3, 11–6
Winner2016Al-Ahram InternationalCairo, EgyptEgypt Nour El Sherbini11-5, 11-9, 9-11, 9-11, 11-7
Winner2016Wadi Degla OpenCairo, EgyptEgypt Nouran Gohar11–8, 7–11, 11–4, 11–5

World Open

Finals: 1 (0 title, 1 runner-up)

OutcomeYearLocationOpponent in the finalScore in the final
Runner-up2014Cairo, EgyptMalaysia Nicol David5–11, 11–8, 7–11, 14–12, 11–5

Major World Series final appearances

Hong Kong Open: 2 finals (0 title, 2 runner-up)

OutcomeYearOpponent in the finalScore in the final
Runner-up2011Malaysia Nicol David11-5, 11-4, 11-9
Runner-up2013Malaysia Nicol David11-7, 11-7, 12-10

Malaysian Open: 3 finals (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

OutcomeYearOpponent in the finalScore in the final
Winner2012Malaysia Nicol David12-10, 11-13, 11-6, 11-2
Runner-up2013Malaysia Nicol David11-8, 11-7, 11-6
Winner2014Egypt Nour El Tayeb7-11, 11-3, 12-10, 2-11, 11-7

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