Egyptian tennis player. Mayar Sherif Ahmed Abdel-Aziz 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.
Mayar has also won four 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. 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.
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Mayar is the younger sister of Rana Sherif Ahmed. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 43 in singles, achieved on 8 May 2023, and world No. 88 in doubles, reached on 11 July 2022. Sherif has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, at the 2022 Emilia-Romagna Open.
Mayar 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 Fed Cup team, she has a win–loss record of 19–11 (in doubles: 10–5) in Fed Cup competition.
