The Most Famous
TENNIS PLAYERS from Egypt
This page contains a list of the greatest Egyptian Tennis Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,569 Tennis Players, NaN of which were born in Egypt. This makes Egypt the birth place of the 0th most number of Tennis Players.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Egyptian Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Egyptian Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Mayar Sherif (b. 1996)
With an HPI of 29.50, Mayar Sherif is the most famous Egyptian Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Mayar Sherif Ahmed Abdel-Aziz (Arabic: ميار شريف أحمد عبد العزيز; born 5 May 1996) is an Egyptian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of No. 31 in singles - making her the highest ranked Egyptian player in the Open Era - and No. 88 in doubles. Sherif has won one singles title on the WTA Tour and one in doubles. She has also won a record seven WTA 125 singles titles and one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour along with nine singles titles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. She is the younger sister of Rana Sherif Ahmed. Sherif spent her final two years of college at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, graduating in 2018 with a bachelor of science in sports medicine. She was part of the university's tennis team and was an All-American in both 2017 and 2018, and the West Coast Conference Player of the Year in 2018. She made the semifinals of the 2018 NCAA singles tournament and ended her senior season ranked 11th in the nation in singles. Sherif made her WTA Tour singles debut at the 2020 Prague Open. She was the first Egyptian female player in a main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, at the 2020 French Open. She made history again for Egyptian tennis at the 2021 Australian Open, becoming the first woman from her nation to win a Grand Slam main-draw match. She became also the first Egyptian woman to qualify for the Olympic Games and reach a WTA tournament final in Cluj-Napoca. At the 2023 Madrid Open, she became the first Egyptian player to reach a WTA 1000 quarterfinal. Playing for Egypt Billie Jean King Cup team, she has a win–loss record of 25–13 (singles 13–7; doubles 12–6) as of April 2024.
2. Mohamed Safwat (b. 1990)
With an HPI of 0.00, Mohamed Safwat is the 2nd most famous Egyptian Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into different languages.
Mohamed Safwat (Arabic: محمد صفوت; born 19 September 1990) is an Egyptian tennis player. Safwat has been a regular player on the Egypt Davis Cup team since 2009. Safwat has won one singles and three titles in doubles on the ATP Challenger Tour. He is currently the Egyptian No. 1.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Egyptian tennis players born between 1990 and 1996. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Egyptian tennis players include Mayar Sherif, and Mohamed Safwat. As of April 2024, 2 new Egyptian tennis players have been added to Pantheon including Mayar Sherif, and Mohamed Safwat.
