Ramy Ashour

Ramy Ashour

Ramy Ashour with his 2011 Australian Open
Full name	Ramy Mohamed Ashour
Nickname(s)	The Maverick, The Artist
Country	Egypt
Residence	Cairo, Egypt and New York
Born	(1987-09-30) September 30, 1987 (age 29) Cairo, Egypt
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	78 kg (172 lb)
Turned Pro	2006
Retired	Active
Plays	Right handed
Coached by	no coach
Racquet used	Prince Textreme Pro Warrior 600
Website	Facebook.com/teamramyashour
Highest ranking	No. 1 (January, 2010)
Current ranking	No. 5 (February, 2017)
Title(s)	35
Tour final(s)	52
World Open	W (2008, 2012, 2014)
Last updated on: July, 2016.

Ramy Mohamed Ashour (Arabic: رامي عاشور‎‎) (born September 30, 1987, in Cairo, Egypt) is a professional squash player from Egypt. He reached the world number one ranking in January 2010, after beating Nick Matthew in the final of the 2009 Saudi International Squash Tournament. At 22, he became the youngest player to reach number one in the world since the 1980s. Prior to this, he was the first two-time World Junior Squash champion. He has won numerous other titles during his career, including the World Open Championship.

Ashour won his first major international title in 2004 at the age of 16, becoming the youngest player ever to win the Men's World Junior Squash Championship. The same year, he helped lead Egypt to a second-place finish in the team event, behind Pakistan. In July 2006, he became the first player in history to win the World Junior Championships for the second time, defeating fellow Egyptian Omar Mosaad. He also led Egypt to a 2–1 victory over Pakistan in the final of the team event; the Egyptian team captured the top three positions in the individual players' event as well as the team event title, a feat no other team had ever accomplished.

In the same year he transitioned out of the junior division, Ashour reached his first major final at the Cathay Pacific Swiss Privilege Hong Kong Squash Open in 2006, where he lost to fellow Egyptian, Amr Shabana, who later would attain the number one ranking in the world. En route to the final, Ashour defeated world number ten John White, world number three Thierry Lincou, and world number two David Palmer.

Ashour won his first major professional title in January 2007, by defeating Palmer in 32 minutes (11–7, 11–3, 11–4), in the final of the Canadian Squash Classic. In April 2007, Ashour won the Kuwait Open, the richest squash event in the world, by defeating Amr Shabana, 11–5, 11–3, 12–10, in 34 minutes, after facing a 10-6 deficit in the third set. He then won the Qatar Classic in Doha by again downing David Palmer, this time with a score of 8–11, 11–9, 11–9, 11–6, in 66 minutes. Also in 2007, Ashour was also invited to the ATCO World Series Squash Finals event, where he competed against the other seven top points earners of the season. The only player to go undefeated in all of his first three matches, he played French sensation Grégory Gaultier in the final. After a 62-minute battle, Ashour took the title 3–1 (12–10, 11–8, 4–11, 11–4).