Mayar Sherif Ahmed Abdel-Aziz (Arabic: ميار شريف أحمد عبد العزيز; born 5 May 1996) is an Egyptian tennis player. She is the younger sister of Rana Sherif Ahmed.[1] She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 64 in singles and 141 in doubles, both achieved on 18 October 2021. Sherif has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. She has also won nine singles titles and six doubles titles on the ITF 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. She was part of the university'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.[2]
Sherif made her WTA Tour singles debut at the 2020 Prague Open. She made history as the first Egyptian female player to make it into the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, at the 2020 French Open.
She made history again for Egyptian tennis at the 2021 Australian Open, becoming the first woman from her nation to win a Grand Slam main-draw match.[3][4] Sherif became also the first Egyptian woman to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and reach a WTA final in Cluj-Napoca.
Playing for Egypt Fed Cup team, she has a win/loss record of 14–10.[5]
2019–2020: WTA Tour and Grand Slam debut at the French Open[]
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 a $25k 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 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 qualifying 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 and world No. 3, Karolína Plíšková, losing in three sets.[6] Her appearance at the main draw of French Open made her the first Egyptian female player to do so.[7]
2021: First Grand Slam match win and WTA finals, Olympics debut, top singles 100 debut[]
Sherif again made history as the first Egyptian woman to win a match at a Grand Slam tournament, after beating Chloe Paquet in the first round of the Australian Open.[8]
Sherif also made history for Egyptian sport at the Tokyo Olympic Games, where she made her debut, as the first Egyptian woman to qualify for the Olympics in 2021 after she won the 2019 African Games.[9][10]
Sherif became the first Egyptian woman to reach a WTA singles and doubles finals in Cluj-Napoca. In singles she defeated top seed Alize Cornet, Alex Eala, Kristína Kučová and Mihaela Buzărnescu. She lost to Andrea Petkovic in the final.[11] In doubles partnering Katarzyna Piter, the pair lost to Natela Dzalamidze and Kaja Juvan in the final. As a result she entered the top 100 at World No. 97 on 9 August 2021, the first Egyptian woman to do so, and also reached a career-high in doubles at No. 154.[12]
Performance timeline[]
Key
W
F
SF
QF
#R
RR
Q#
P#
DNQ
A
Z#
PO
G
F-S
SF-B
NMS
P
NH
(W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; (P) postponed; (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.
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.[13]
Egypt
Andrea Petkovic
Katarzyna Piter
Natela Dzalamidze 
Kaja Juvan
Martina Trevisan
Irina Bara 
Ekaterine Gorgodze
Aleksandrina Naydenova
Aliona Bolsova
Jacqueline Cabaj Awad
Eleni Kordolaimi
Simona Waltert
Bárbara Gatica
Katarina Zavatska
Réka Luca Jani
Kaia Kanepi
Arantxa Rus
Lynn Kiro
Zuzana Zlochová
Sowjanya Bavisetti 
Jana Fett 
Chen Pei-hsuan 
Melanie Stokke
Chihiro Muramatsu 
Melanie Klaffner
Lara Salden
Aleksandra Krunić 
Melis Sezer 
Astra Sharma
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