Nour was born and has been raised in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. She started playing Squash when she was six years of age, and was already participating in tournaments before she was eight.

Her brother Omar el Sherbini played an important role to keep her interested in squash as she would spend time watching him and learning from his sessions. But she confirms that sport runs all through her family. 'My father used to be a football player and a good swimmer. Also my mum was a good athlete'.

There was never a competing sport for her time. It was squash aged six and nothing else has been added.

As she explains: 'By time I gained more confidence and become more steady that made me able to win most of the titles of the local tournaments in Egypt, till reaching the British open and my first international titles. my first bjo title [British Junior Open] was such a push for more titles starting from under 13 years old till under 15, titles in a row.

Only a few months after her 13th birthday she joined WISPA in early 2009, and in April announced her arrival by only losing to world top liner Engy Kheirallah in a tight 3/1. at the Heliopolis Open. Having reached the final of the ATCO Miro event in June, also in Cairo, it was only another strong performance from Kheirallah that thwarted her bid for a first WISPA tour title.

But then came the World junior Squash Championships Individual in Chennai, India, in which she became world under-19 champion at the age of 13.

As she explained: 'Reaching the most important moment of my life, I was chosen to represent Egypt in the world open junior championship taking place in Chennai, India. To win the title was a dream, but to take it and feel the taste of victory was a dream came true. Adding the World Team title made it looks extraordinary'.

In four years on the WSA World Tour, Nour El Sherbini has risen 208 places in the women’s rankings to occupy the world no. 7 spot at the age of 16. Many players spend years battling through competitions but the rate at which Sherbini has progressed to a world-beating standard has without doubt thrown down the gauntlet to Nicol David for the next couple of years.

Her first professional competition came in the Heliopolis Open as a qualifier, and made it through to the first round. The following January she won the British Junior Under 19’s Open at the age of 14, at which point she had already broken into the world’s top 50. She returned to Heliopolis in 2010 to claim her first WSA title at the event in which she had made her debut the year before. The following year, still rapidly climbing the rankings and sitting at no. 36, she won the Alexandria International Open as 5th seed and finished off the year by reaching round two of the World Open as a qualifier.

So far in 2012 the signs have continued to look good for the Egyptian starlet after semi-final appearances in Tournament of Champions in New York, as well as in the KL Open in Malaysia. These results tipped Sherbini into the Top 20 mix, but undeterred by the daunting prospect of facing the big names in the tour, she reached the final of the WSA World Series Platinum Allam British open event at the O2 Arena, where she lost to Nicol David.

It may be stating the obvious, but this delightful girl with a prodigious talent and a maturity of play beyond her years is likely to build from these early successes and become another enduring WISPA junior and senior star.

On 19 May 2012, Sherbini defeated Raneem el Weleily to become the youngest-ever British Open women’s finalist. She reached a career-high world ranking of world no. 6 in June 2012.