Mayar Sherif

Mayar Sherif Ahmed Abdel-Aziz (Arabic: ميار شريف أحمد عبد العزيز‎; born 5 May 1996) is an Egyptian female tennis player. Her older sister is tennis player Rana Sherif Ahmed.[1]

Mayar Sherif
ميار شريف أحمد عبد العزيز

Full name	Mayar Sherif Ahmed Abdel-Aziz
Country (sports)	Egypt
Residence	Cairo, Egypt
Born	5 May 1996 Cairo, Egypt
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
College	Pepperdine University
Prize money	US$208,992
Singles
Career record	139–58 (70.6%)
Career titles	9 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 128 (30 November 2020)
Current ranking	No. 128 (30 November 2020)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2021)
French Open	1R (2020)
Doubles
Career record	61–28 (68.5%)
Career titles	6 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 189 (9 November 2020)
Current ranking	No. 189 (9 November 2020)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	14–10 (58.3%)
Medal record Representing  Egypt Women's Tennis African Games 2019 Rabat Singles 2019 Rabat Doubles 2019 Rabat Team
Last updated on: 6 December 2020.

She has career-high WTA rankings of 128 in singles, reached on 30 November 2020, as well as 189 in doubles, set on 9 November 2020. Sherif has won nine singles titles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

Playing for Egypt in Fed Cup, she has a win/loss record of 14–10.[2] Playing for Egypt, she won the 2019 African Games and will therefore feature in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, provided she still has a ranking within the top-300 on the 1st of July 2020.[3]

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 women'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.[4]

Mayar made her WTA singles debut at the 2020 Prague Open. She is first Egyptian female player to make it into the main draw at the French Open.

Professional career

2019–20: WTA Tour & French Open debut

Sherif started the year playing in the Australian Open qualifiers which was her first appearance at a professional tournament. She lost in the first round of qualifiers to Ann Li. In March, she won the title at the $25,000 Tournament in Antalya defeating Dalma Gálfi in the final. In August, Sherif attempted to qualify for the main draw of the Prague Open after being unable to do so at the Australian Open. At the Prague Open, Sherif made it through qualifications making her first main-draw debut at the WTA Tour Level. In that first round of the Prague Open, she lost in three-sets to Laura Siegemund. In late September, Sherif successfully navigated her way through the French Open Qualifiers defeating María Camila Osorio Serrano, Caty McNally and Giulia Gatto-Monticone. Making her Grand Slam main-draw debut, Sherif came up against the second seed, world No. 3, Karolína Plíšková losing in three sets.[5] Her appearance at the main-draw of French Open made her the first Egyptian female player to do so.[6]

Grand Slam performance timeline

Key

W

F

SF

QF

#R

RR

Q#

A

P

Z#

PO

G

F-S

SF-B

NMS

NH

(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (P) postponed; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; (NH) not held. SR=strike rate (events won/competed)

To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Singles

Tournament	2020	2021	W–L
Australian Open	Q1		0–0
French Open	1R		0–1
Wimbledon	NH		0–0
US Open	A		0–0
Win–Loss	0–1	0–0	0–1

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 16 (9 titles, 7 runner–ups)

Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000 / $80,000 tournaments $50,000 / $60,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $15,000 tournaments $10,000 tournaments

Finals by surface Hard (3–2) Clay (6–5) Grass (0–0) Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Jan 2013	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Aleksandrina Naydenova	6–2, 2–6, 6–1
Loss	1–1	Sep 2013	ITF Lleida, Spain	10,000	Clay	Aliona Bolsova	6–0, 3–6, 2–6
Loss	1–2	Nov 2013	ITF Vinaròs, Spain	10,000	Clay	Olga Sáez Larra	6–4, 5–7, 4–6
Loss	1–3	Jul 2017	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	15,000	Hard	Jacqueline Cabaj Awad	7–6^(7–4), 5–7, 4–6
Loss	1–4	Jul 2017	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	15,000	Hard	Eleni Kordolaimi	4–6, 6–3, 2–6
Win	2–4	Feb 2019	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	15,000	Hard	Simona Waltert	6–4, 1–6, 6–3
Win	3–4	May 2019	ITF Cairo, Egypt	15,000	Clay	Simona Waltert	6–2, 6–1
Win	4–4	Jun 2019	ITF Tabarka, Tunisia	15,000	Clay	Bárbara Gatica	6–4, 6–4
Win	5–4	Jun 2019	ITF Tabarka, Tunisia	15,000	Clay	Nina Stadler	6–3, 6–2
Win	6–4	Jun 2019	ITF Madrid, Spain	25,000	Hard	Eva Guerrero Álvarez	6–2, 6–3
Loss	6–5	Jul 2019	ITF Biella, Italy	25,000	Clay	Katarina Zavatska	1–6, 3–6
Loss	6–6	Jul 2019	ITF Baja, Hungary	25,000	Clay	Réka Luca Jani	3–6, 6–2, 2–6
Win	7–6	Aug 2019	ITF Las Palmas, Spain	25,000+H	Clay	Leonie Küng	6–1, 6–0
Win	8–6	Mar 2020	ITF Antalya, Turkey	25,000	Clay	Dalma Galfi	6–4, 6–3
Win	9–6	Nov 2020	LTP Charleston Pro, United States	100,000	Clay	Katarzyna Kawa	6–2, 6–3
Loss	9–7	Nov 2020	ITF Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain	25,000	Clay	Kaia Kanepi	3–6, 2–6

Doubles: 13 (6 titles, 7 runner–ups)

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 / $80,000 tournaments
$50,000 / $60,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$15,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Jan 2013	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Valeria Podda	Eugeniya Pashkova Ekaterina Yashina	6–3, 2–6, [3–10]
Loss	0–2	Jun 2013	ITF Melilla, Spain	10,000	Hard	Vanda Lukács	Lucia Cervera-Vasquez Pilar Dominguez-Lopez	3–6, 4–6
Win	1–2	Jul 2013	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Lynn Kiro	Alina Mikheeva Anna Morgina	6–3, 6–2
Win	2–2	Jul 2013	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Zuzana Zlochová	Sowjanya Bavisetti Rishika Sunkara	7–5, 6–3
Loss	2–3	Apr 2014	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	10,000	Hard	Ola Abou Zekry	Jana Fett Oleksandra Korashvili	6–4, 7–5
Win	3–3	Jul 2017	ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	15,000	Hard	Rutuja Bhosale	Chen Pei-hsuan Wu Fang-hsien	3–6, 6–3, [10–5]
Loss	3–4	Apr 2019	ITF Cairo, Egypt	15,000	Clay	Rana Sherif Ahmed	Despina Papamichail Simona Waltert	3–6, 2–6
Win	4–4	Jun 2019	ITF Tabarka, Tunisia	15,000	Clay	Alica Rusová	Lena Lutzeier Nina Stadler	6–4, 4–6, [10–4]
Loss	4–5	Jul 2019	ITF Turin, Italy	25,000	Clay	Melanie Stokke	Chihiro Muramatsu Yuki Naito	0–6, 2–6
Win	5–5	Jul 2019	ITF Baja, Hungary	25,000	Clay	Melanie Klaffner	Réka Luca Jani Lara Salden	6–2, 4–6, [10–8]
Loss	5–6	Feb 2020	Zed Open, Egypt	100,000	Hard	Arantxa Rus	Aleksandra Krunic Katarzyna Piter	4–6, 2–6
Win	6–6	Mar 2020	ITF Antalya, Turkey	25,000	Clay	Réka Luca Jani	Melis Sezer İpek Öz	6–7(8–10), 6–1, [10–3]
Loss	6–7	Nov 2020	LTP Charleston Pro, United States	100,000	Clay	Astra Sharma	Magdalena Fręch Katarzyna Kawa	4–6, 6–4, [10–2]

References

1. "Fresno State Sisters Team Up to Shock No. 5 Doubles Team". Mountain West. 2016-05-26. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
2. "Mayar Sherif at the Fed Cup".
3. "Mayar Sherif and Mohamed Safwat Become First Ever Egyptian Olympic Tennis Competitors". Egyptian Streets. 2019-08-30. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
4. "Mayar Sherif - Women's Tennis". Pepperdine University Athletics. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
5. Kane, David (September 29, 2020). "Pliskova solves Sherif to pass first hurdle in Paris". WTA. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
6. Macpherson, Alex (September 25, 2020). "Zarazua, Sherif qualify for Roland Garros, score national milestones". Retrieved September 29, 2020.

External links

• Mayar Sherif at the Women's Tennis Association
• Mayar Sherif at the International Tennis Federation
• Mayar Sherif at the Billie Jean King Cup
• Pepperdine Waves bio