Shaimaa Abdul-Aziz

Shaimaa Abdul-Aziz Muhammad (Arabic: شيماء عبد العزيز; born 30 March 1981 in Giza) is an Egyptian table tennis player.^[3] She won a silver medal, along with her partner Moselhi Emad, in the mixed doubles at the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria.^[4] As of March 2013, Abdul-Aziz is ranked no. 566 in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).^[2] She is also right-handed, and uses the classic grip.^[1]

Shaimaa Abdul-Aziz
Full name	Shaimaa Abdul-Aziz Muhammad
Nationality	Egypt
Born	(1981-03-30) 30 March 1981 (age 44) Giza, Egypt
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	53 kg (117 lb)
Table tennis career
Playing style	Right-handed, classic[1]
Highest ranking	318 (May 2001)[2]
Current ranking	566 (March 2013)[2]
Club	Al-Ahly Sports Club[1]
Medal record Women's table tennis Representing  Egypt All-Africa Games 2007 Algiers Mixed doubles 2007 Algiers Team 2007 Algiers Doubles

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.^[5] 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.^[6]

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.^[7][8][9] 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.^[10]