Shaimaa Abdul-Aziz

Shaimaa Abdul-Aziz
Nationality	Egypt
Born	(1981-03-30) 30 March 1981 Giza, Egypt
Playing style	Right-handed, classic
Highest ranking	318 (May 2001)
Current ranking	566 (March 2013)
Club	Al-Ahly Sports Club
Height
Weight	53 kg (117 lb)
Medal record Women's table tennis Representing Egypt All-Africa Games 2007 Algiers Mixed doubles 2007 Algiers Team 2007 Algiers Doubles

Shaimaa Abdul-Aziz (Arabic: شيماء عبد العزيز‎‎; born March 30, 1981 in Giza) is an Egyptian table tennis player. She won a silver medal, along with her partner Moselhi Emad, in the mixed doubles at the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria. As of March 2013, Abdul-Aziz is ranked no. 566 in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). She is also right-handed, and uses the classic grip.

Abdul-Aziz made her official debut, as a 19-year-old, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in both singles and doubles tournaments. For her first event, the women's singles, Abdul-Aziz placed third in the preliminary pool round against Russia's Galina Melnik and Hong Kong's Wong Ching, receiving a total score of 74 points, and two straight losses. In the women's doubles, Abdul-Aziz and her partner Osman Bacent repeated their position in the preliminary pool round against Sweden's Åsa and Marie Svensson, and Belarus' Viktoria Pavlovich and Tatyana Kostromina, attaining only a total score of 45 points and losing four straight matches.

Eight years after competing in her last Olympics, Abdul-Aziz qualified for her second Egyptian team, as a 27-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by receiving a place as one of the top 6 seeded players from the All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria. She lost the preliminary round match of the women's singles tournament to Chinese Taipei's Pan Li-chun, with a unanimous set score of 0–4.

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile