Kanzy El Defrawy

Kanzy Emad El Defrawy is an Egyptian squash player, born on 5 May 1994, who formerly played the sport professionally. Her highest world ranking was World No. 29, reached in December 2011. She won her first Women's Squash Association Tour title at the NASH Cup in London, Ontario, Canada, in September 2014, and went on to win further tour titles, including the Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital Open in 2015 and the Richmond Open and the Jordan Squash Federation Amman Open in 2016. She began playing squash at seven, played internationally from the age of 13 and later studied at Trinity College in Connecticut. As a junior she won the Dutch Junior Open five times and the U-19 World Championships twice. She now lives in Dubai, works in the events industry, runs a squash academy she established in 2021 and is a Guinness World Records adjudicator.