Jana Galal Swaify

17-year-old Galal remains relatively inexperienced on the PSA Squash Tour, having played just five Challenger events so far. She has reached at least the quarter-finals in all five of those events, though, losing in the semi-finals three times.

Her most notable results, however, have come away from the PSA Tour, helping Egypt to glory at the WSF World Junior Team Championships last summer before recording her biggest individual prize at the 2025 British Junior Open to kick off this year.

She got her hands on the women’s U19 title in Birmingham with a pair of impressive victories, too, beating two of last year’s ‘Ones to Watch’ – Lauren Baltayan and Nadien Elhammamy – in the semi-finals and final respectively, with both matches ending 3-2.

In doing so, she became the second straight Alexandrian to win the women’s U19 crown after Fayrouz Aboelkheir’s success 12 months ago, and she will hope to use the victory as a springboard to climb up the PSA rankings in 2025.

Ruqayya Salem

One Challenger event, one Challenger event title.

Ruqayya Salem joined an illustrious list of players to win the title in their first PSA Tour event last year, following in the footsteps of Amina Orfi and Ramy Ashour.

That success came at the Dynam Cup SQ-Cube Open and while she is yet to play another Challenger event, she has shown plenty of glimpses of her talent elsewhere.

Still just 16 years of age, Salem beat Lowri Roberts and Torrie Malik in qualifying for the CIB Egyptian Open before claiming her biggest career title at the U17 US Junior Open in December.

She followed that up with a third-placed finish at the British Junior Open after losing out in the semi-finals to Anahat Singh, but is well set to climb up the rankings and potentially add to her trophy haul across the next 12 months.