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 nameMayar Sherif Ahmed Abdel-Aziz
Country (sports) Egypt
ResidenceCairo, Egypt
Born (1996-05-05) 5 May 1996
Cairo, Egypt
Height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
CollegePepperdine University
Prize moneyUS$208,992
Singles
Career record139–58 (70.6%)
Career titles9 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 128 (30 November 2020)
Current rankingNo. 128 (30 November 2020)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open1R (2021)
French Open1R (2020)
Doubles
Career record61–28 (68.5%)
Career titles6 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 189 (9 November 2020)
Current rankingNo. 189 (9 November 2020)
Team competitions
Fed Cup14–10 (58.3%)
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.


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