Personal Statement
Coming from an academic family, with my father being an assistant professor, faculty of medicine, Cairo University, my mother a professor of pharmaceutical technology, national research center of Egypt, my grandmother a professor of textile chemistry at the National research center and my beloved grand father, a doctor of petroleum engineering who was granted his Ph.D. from Missouri State University, I strive much perusing my post IB university studies in either mechanical engineering or astrophysics maybe combined with another major in business or economics. I can say that I was privileged along my school life to be surrounded by familial role models to whom I always looked up to and whom I always wished to make proud especially that they spared no effort to provide me with a very high quality of education and enroll me in multiple extracurricular activities along my school years. Going to the states to complete my studies, walking the same steps of my late grandfather, will for sure make him look at me from heaven happy and proud, and honestly by then I could say that one of lifetime dreams came true.
My major and continuous life challenge was doing the good balance between being an IB student, a tennis player, having a social life full of friends and family, doing a lot of extracurricular activities, charity activities and finally traveling the globe for tennis camps and leisure. I have started playing tennis since I was 4 years old, I started competing in national tournaments before I even turned 7. I used to sleep in a room filled with all sizes of tennis balls signed by my coaches, referees, club admins on reward to my little achievements. As a kid I used to hug one of those balls before I go to sleep dreaming of myself on a very big tennis court playing against Roger, Rafa, djoko.... and people shouting my name. Maybe this daily dream is what made me ask my parents to take me to an ATP tour round, and that was when they took me to Dubai ATP tour in 2015. The moment I stepped into the court and I heard Djoko's and Roger's names called I felt like I'm living the dream. It was a life time experience that ignited my love and passion for tennis more and above. Along the junior years I've played 426 national singles matches and 121 doubles matches in addition to the ATF and ITF matches, I've ranked top 10 U12, top 20 U14 and top 30 U16 in the national rank. I have a good batch of trophies from my singles and doubles matches. I played for my club for years, last was this year 2022, which had a very different taste, because I joined the club's men's team for the first time and together we succeeded to win the first place in the Egyptian tennis league.
Tennis is not a game for me, it has always been and will remain a life style. I've never missed a training, I've never dropped a chance to step into the court and enjoy being in my comfort zone. Playing college tennis is not actually an option, it's a continuity of this lifestyle I'm used to, it's one further step in a career that started very early in my childhood, it's a fulfillment for the passion and respect I have for the game.
Maybe I'm not the best tennis player in the world, yet, I'm a talented player, very hard worker and I've always been a fighter on court. There have been good days and bad days but during the bad days I was always confident that the good ones would come again, and I knew that trusting my natural talent and taking the extra mile in my practice would put me where I wish to be.
This year I'll be graduating with an IB diploma, cherishing my tennis achievements and looking forward to a new milestone in my life.
Finally, I can say that I'm not better than anyone but I'm a unique version of myself. A talented, fighter, tennis player and a hard working IB diploma student doing my best to pursue my dreams.
