Yomna Farid

Yomna Farid
يمنى فريد

Country (sports)	Egypt
Residence	Alexandria, Egypt
Born	(1983-06-28) 28 June 1983 Alexandria, Egypt
Turned pro	1997
Retired	2006
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$11,038
Singles
Career record	31–41
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 607 (29 December 2003)
Grand Slam singles results
French Open Junior	1R (2001)
Wimbledon Junior	1R (2001)
Doubles
Career record	21–28
Career titles	1 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 480 (10 November 2003)
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open Junior	2R (2001)
Wimbledon Junior	1R(2001)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	9–19

Yomna Farid (Arabic: يمنى فريد; born 28 June 1983) is a retired Egyptian tennis player.

Farid has career-high WTA rankings of 607 in singles and 480 in doubles, both achieved in 2003. In her career, she won one doubles title on the ITF circuit.

Playing for Egypt in Fed Cup, Farid has a win–loss record of 9–19.

Career

Born in Alexandria, Farid started playing tennis aged 12; her favourite surface has been clay.

She had a successful junior career, winning six singles and five doubles titles on the ITF junior circuit. Her career-high ranking as a junior was world number 38, and she finished her junior career with a record of 80–45.

Farid made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 1999 Dreamland Egypt Classic, in the doubles event partnering Marwa El Wany. She retired from professional tennis 2006.

ITF finals

Doubles (1–1)

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Finals by surface Hard (1–1) Clay (0–0)

Outcome	Date	Location	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	25 October 2003	Lagos, Nigeria	Hard	Heidi El Tabakh	Rebecca Dandeniya Michelle Snyman	5–7, 3–6
Winner	2 November 2003	Lagos, Nigeria	Hard	Heidi El Tabakh	Lizaan du Plessis Noha Mohsen	6–1, 5–7, 6–1

ITF junior finals

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Singles (6–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Location	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	5 September 1999	Beirut, Lebanon	Hard	Tanja Hırschauer	6–4, 2–6, 1–6
Winner	2.	13 August 2000	Cairo, Egypt	Clay	Noha Mohsen	6–4, 6–4
Winner	3.	26 August 2000	Damascus, Syria	Clay	Amani Khalifa	3–6, 6–4, 6–1
Winner	4.	3 September 2000	Beirut, Lebanon	Clay	Amani Khalifa	6–1, 6–3
Winner	5.	22 September 2000	Cairo, Egypt	Clay	Alexandra Kostikova	6–4, 6–3
Winner	6.	3 March 2001	Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei	Hard	Amani Khalifa	6–3, 6–3
Winner	7.	7 April 2001	Tunis, Tunisia	Clay	Sylvia Montero	6–1, 6–7(2), 6–3
Runner-up	8.	15 April 2001	Tunis, Tunisia	Clay	Karin Coetzee	2–6, 1–6

Doubles (5–2)

Outcome	No.	Date	Location	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	21 August 1998	Giza, Egypt	Clay	Dina Khalil	Siham-Soumeya Ben Nacer Feriel Esseghir	5–7, 2–6
Winner	2.	5 September 1999	Beirut, Lebanon	Hard	Dalia Coutry	Kerry Ann North Karen Highfield	3–6, 6–3, 6–1
Winner	3.	13 August 2000	Cairo, Egypt	Clay	Dalia Coutry	Nisrine Hajbane Meryem Lahlou	w/o
Winner	4.	18 August 2000	Cairo, Egypt	Clay	Dalia Coutry	Tseng Chun-ning Wang Ting-wen	6–3, 6–1
Winner	5.	26 August 2000	Damascus, Syria	Clay	Amani Khalifa	Amal Basha Reem Raouf	6–4, 6–1
Winner	6.	3 September 2000	Beirut, Lebanon	Clay	Amani Khalifa	Reem Raouf Sara Sabry	7–6(7), 6–2
Runner-up	7.	15 April 2001	Tunis, Tunisia	Clay	Amani Khalifa	Sana Ben Salah Feriel Esseghir	6–3, 2–6, 3–6

External links

• Yomna Farid at the Women's Tennis Association
• Yomna Farid at the International Tennis Federation
• Yomna Farid at the Billie Jean King Cup