Osama Khalifa

Osama Khaled Khalifa is a professional squash player born on 19 March 1995 in Cairo, Egypt, who first became a regional swimming champion and turned to squash at the age of ten. He moved to Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts in 2012 and then played for Columbia University, where he won the 2017 Collegiate National Championship as the first Columbia player to take the national title and the Ivy League Player of the Year award three years running. He graduated with a degree in statistics in 2018. His older brother Amr Khaled Khalifa won the World Junior Championships in 2010. From March 2022 he turned to professional squash doubles and in April 2024 became the first Egyptian to reach world number one in that format, winning four titles in the 2023 to 2024 season including the North American Open and the Kellner Cup.