Nour El Sherbini is currently one of the most exciting female players on the world tour – having won seven world titles with the latest and fifth consecutive one in Chicago in May. Only Nicol David boasts more crowns with a total eight. And at the age of 27, it is hard to imagine an Egyptian team without the renowned ‘Warrior Princess’ at the heart of it. She was the world no.1 for 31 months between 2016 and 2018 and 17 months between 2020-2022 and regained the top ranking in May this year after winning two of the opening three platinum titles of the season, as well as the gold-level Grasshopper Cup in October. She became the youngest ever junior World Champion in 2009 when she claimed the title at just 13-year-old. She broke into the world’s top fifty at just 14 years of age and claimed her first tour title at the Heliopolis Open in 2010. The year 2016 was arguably El Sherbini’s major breakthrough year, with a maiden world series title coming in January’s Tournament of Champions before she became the first female Egyptian to lift the iconic British Open crown just two months later. Even greater things were to come though from El Sherbini as, in April, she recovered from 2-0 down in the final of the World Championship against Laura Massaro to avenge her defeat to the Englishwoman two years previously and become the youngest World Champion of all time, becoming the first Egyptian to win the pinnacle tournament on the women’s tour.