Country: EGY
Date of Birth: 30/09/1987
Place of Birth: Cairo
Place of Residence: Cairo, Egypt
WSQ-M08 Seeding:
Highest World Ranking: 2
World Tour Titles: 5
World Tour Finals: 9
Squash Achievements: Becoming the youngest ever World Junior Champion at the age of just 16 and winning four times on tour in 2007
Ambitions: To become World Number One and World Champion
Ramy Ashour is squash’s latest wonderkid. He stunned the squash
world when becoming the youngest ever World Junior Champion at the
age of 16, before confounding his older rivals by winning the
Athens Open on his maiden PSA Tour event appearance.
Since then Ashour has not looked back and enjoyed a stellar year
in 2006, successfully defending his World Junior crown, before
reaching his first PSA Super Series final, defeating a host of the
sport's biggest names, including former World Champion Thierry
Lincou and World Champion David Palmer, before losing out to World
Number One, Amr Shabana. His crowning achievement in 2006 came at
the World Squash Awards in London where he was honoured as the PSA
Young Player of the Year.
2007 saw Ashour continue his meteoric rise, reaching five main
tour finals and amazingly winning four of them, including
victory over fellow Egyptian Amr Shabana in the Kuwait Open.
Ramy started 2008 in style with victory in the Bear Stearns
Tournament of Champions when defeating England's James
Willstrop.