Sana Ibrahim is one of a number of players on Tour born in the 2000s, and she broke inside the top 50 in the World Rankings for the first time at the start of 2022.

She made her debut on Tour in 2018 and went on to reach at least the quarter-finals of five of her first six events, including making the final of the CIB El Shams - Egyptian Tour 1. Semi-final appearances also came at the Johannesburg Open and the Pakistan International Women’s Squash Tournament.

Ibrahim played at the PSA Women’s World Championship at the age of 16 in 2019, losing out to World No.1 Raneem El Welily in the first round. The experience helped though, as she went on to win for the first time a year later, defeating Haya Ali to win the CIB Egyptian Tour 4, and catapult herself inside the top 75 in the World Rankings.

After reaching the second round of a Platinum event for the first time, at the CIB PSA Black Ball Squash Open, Ibrahim then claimed her second Tour title, with a win at the Egyptian Challenger Tour #2. She also made it into the last 16 of both the CIB Egyptian Challenger Tour 4 and 5 at the end of 2021.

Ibrahim started 2022 slowly, but reached the semi-finals of the J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions Challenger, along with a last 16 appearance at the Manchester Open. Over the course of the year, she also made it into the last 16 of the CIB Zed Squash Open, South Western Women’s Open and the Oracle NetSuite Open.

The young Egyptian started the new year with the same result at the DAC Pro Squash Classic before making back-to-back quarter finals. Ibrahim did so at the Bahl and Gaynor Cincinnati Cup and the Squash On Fire Open. She then also made the last eight of the Richmond Open later in the season to push her into the world’s top 30 for the first time.