Hania El Hammamy has already made her name known around the squash world, after winning the 2020 Black Ball Women’s Open at the tender age of just 19, and has already gone on to amass a number of major titles and reach the world’s top three. In 2015, she became the first person born this century to win a world tour title, which came at the 42nd Geneva Open in 2015 with a shock win over Fiona Moverley in the final. In the last event before the suspension of the tour due to the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, El Hammamy wrote her name into the history books of the sport, becoming a major winner for the first time at the age of just 19-years-old. She downed Camille Serme, before overcoming tough challenges from Amanda Sobhy, Sarah-Jane Perry and Nour El Sherbini to win the Black Ball Open. She was awarded the Young Player of the Year for the 2019/20 season. El Hammamy’s start to 2023 did not see any victories, but she consistently featured in the latter stages of the majors. She reached the finals of the Black Ball Open in March and the Grasshopper Cup in October, along with featuring in the last four of the J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions, the World Championships in May when she lost to compatriot Nouran Gohar after a five-set thriller and the El Gouna International.