Fram reports
So nice to see “a good guy” getting reward and success. Kanzy Defrawy started from nothing. And look at her now.
I did a little article about her a few months ago.
But now, she has 12 different sites and another big project in the pipeline. Another in-depth article coming from the EXCELLENT Squash Facility Network.
“When Kanzy El Defrawy landed in Dubai from Egypt with a one-way ticket, her only wish was to escape the pain of an unfinished dream. An injury had cut short a career she once imagined would take her to world No. 1, leaving her with questions she didn’t want to hear and reminders she couldn’t bear to face.
She wanted anonymity, a place where no one asked why she wasn’t playing anymore.
Yet in the towers of Dubai, she found herself surrounded by squash courts — in hotels, residential complexes, and fitness clubs. Squash was everywhere, and at the same time invisible. It felt like the sport was haunting her, whispering from behind the glass.
That paradox — running from squash only to find it hiding in plain sight — became the spark for one of the UAE’s most surprising sports stories.
A Country Full of Courts — but No System
When the world slowed during the pandemic, Kanzy finally had the quiet to notice what Dubai was really telling her.
In her own residential tower, there was a gleaming court; then another in the hotel lobby; another tucked behind the cardio machines at a gym. Squash glittered behind glass all over the city—yet there was no federation, no national team, no junior ladder, no calendar.
Even the PSA spotlight had gone dark after 2017. What looked like abundance was, in truth, a scattering of isolated courts with no common heartbeat.
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