I think Maadi club is lucky to have  Mohamed Medhat managing the academy. An international junior player and an International professional player. He is a very experienced coach; in addition he helped me out to reach this level with some beneficial pieces of advice. He taught me techniques and how to manage my tournaments and how to set a schedule to manage my time. Medhat used to train me, as well, through playing a lot of games. He also played for El Ahly, at this time we trained together in Maadi club. I had this chance that he was with me in my first professional tournament in Philadelphia.

    I am training in England for almost 1 year and 3 months with Jonah Barrington, the difference between training in Egypt and England that training in Egypt is better in quality and we have better players but in England the training is much more organized u know exactly what are u going to do also training with Jonah Barrington helped me a lot to develop my game that’s because he was a professional player actually he is the one who made the game professional and he knows how a professional player life style should be , that’s why I think the coming generations in Egypt are very lucky because most of the trainers were professional players like Mohamed and I am sure they can develop our talented junior players to be professionals .

    Well, I will tell you about the best two Tournments that I wont forget.                  Men's World Junior 98:The happiest moment in my life when I was very near from this title “World Juniors Champion”. I reached the final match but unfortunately I did not…..This unforgettable happy moment I keep reminding myself by before entering any tournaments to release tension and pressure.                                                     Qatar Open 2007: I played with Lee Beachil in the quarter final. In this game the winner was going to reach the top ten in professional ranking. Fortunately, I won the match and I became from those top ten professional players for the first time in my career.

    Squash is a very famous sport. Yet, it doesn’t appear on the list of the Olympic Games. May be the main reason is that the powerful countries such as Japan and USA do not participate in this sport. In addition Our concern is to bring this beautiful sport to the Olympic Games in London 2012. We exert a lot of effort in training and traveling that makes us deserve to enter this enormous competition. Moreover, Squash has many fans all over the world.

    There was an innovative idea that I hardly believed that it will finally be in Egypt. This new thing is applied in football academies; however, it will be seen for the first time in Squash. A selection of some talented players from Maadi Squash Pro’s to participate in one of the three camps we chose in Millfield Academy. Consequently, Jonah Barrington could watch those who play and offer them scholarships in his Academy. From Millfield Academy we can exchange players to be trained in Maadi Squash Pro’s too. This will be an exchange program supervised by Mohamed Medhat

    I have an advice for the parents which is not to interfere in coaches work  because they understand much more than u do in squash and in fitness , I see parents who never played squash before and arguing  with the coaches about the quantity and type of training.

Wael ELHindi    

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