Mohamed Safwat

Mohamed Safwat

Country (sports)	Egypt
Residence	Cairo, Egypt
Born	(1990-09-19) 19 September 1990 Mansoura, Egypt
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Plays	Right-handed (Double-handed backhand)
Prize money	$352,674
Singles
Career record	4–14 (22.22% in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup) Year record (2018)  : 1–1
Career titles	0 ITF Titles : 24
Highest ranking	No. 163 (25 June 2018)
Current ranking	No. 173 (30 July 2018)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	Q2 (2017, 2018)
French Open	1R (2018)
Wimbledon	Q3 (2016)
US Open	Q1 (2017, 2018)
Doubles
Career record	2–5 (28.57% in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup) Year record (2018)  : 1-0
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 225 (26 September 2016)
Current ranking	No. 476 (21 May 2018)
Last updated on: 11 June 2018.

Mohamed Safwat (Arabic: محمد صفوت‎; born 19 September 1990) is an Egyptian tennis player. Safwat has been a regular player on the Egypt Davis Cup team since 2009. He is currently the Egyptian No. 1, and the second-highest ranked Arab player behind Malek Jaziri.^[1]

In 2016, Safwat was the first Egyptian player since 1997 to reach the final of a Challenger tournament when he reached the final in Kenitra, before losing to Maximilian Marterer in straight sets.^[2] He also reached the semifinals at the Challenger tournament in Launceston in 2017, eventually losing to Mitchell Krueger.

In 2018, Safwat beat No. 3 seed and top 100 player Jordan Thompson en route to his second Challenger singles final in Anning, where he lost to Prajnesh Gunneswaran.^[3] Safwat qualified for his first Grand Slam at the 2018 French Open as a lucky loser, where he lost to Grigor Dimitrov in straight sets.^[4] He was the first man from Egypt to play in a Grand Slam tennis tournament's main singles draw in 22 years.^[5]

Safwat was part of the Egyptian Davis Cup team to advance to the 3rd round of the Europe/Africa Zone II bracket for the first time since 1996 (tie against Finland to be played in September 2018 in Egypt).

Safwat has also won 3 titles in doubles on the ATP Challenger tour.

Singles titles

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
1.	2 August 2010	Nonthaburi, F1	Hard	Simon Cauvard	7–6(7–5), 6–3
2.	8 November 2011	Kigali, F1	Clay	Karim-Mohamed Maamoun	6–3, 6–2
3.	16 April 2013	Sharm El Sheikh, F3	Clay	Ivan Nedelko	6–4, 6–2
4.	23 April 2013	Sharm El Sheikh, F4	Clay	Gianluigi Quinzi	6–2, 1–6, 6–3
5.	4 June 2013	Sharm El Sheikh, F10	Clay	Marc Rath	6–2, 6–7(3–7), 6–3
6.	2 July 2013	Sharm El Sheikh, F14	Clay	Omar Giacalone	6–2, 6–3
7.	20 August 2013	Sharm El Sheikh, F21	Clay	Karim-Mohamed Maamoun	6–4, 6–3
8.	27 August 2013	Sharm El Sheikh, F22	Clay	Mazen Osama	6–2, 4–6, 6–3
9.	15 October 2013	Sharm El Sheikh, F29	Clay	Hicham Khaddari	6–4, 6–2
10.	5 November 2013	Sharm El Sheikh, F32	Clay	Axel Michon	6–3, 7–5
11.	3 December 2013	Sharm El Sheikh, F35	Clay	Peđa Krstin	6–4, 7–6(7–1)
12.	12 March 2014	Sharm El Sheikh, F9	Clay	Sherif Sabry	6–3, 6–3
13.	27 October 2014	Antalya, F38	Hard	Marc Sieber	7–5, 3–6, 6–4
14.	17 November 2014	Sharm El Sheikh, F33	Clay	Tom Jomby	6–4, 6–4
15.	24 November 2014	Sharm El Sheikh, F34	Clay	Jaroslav Pospíšil	5–7, 6–3, 6–2
16.	19 January 2015	Sharm El Sheikh, F2	Clay	Kamil Majchrzak	7–5, 6–3
17.	16 March 2015	Sharm El Sheikh, F10	Clay	Jaroslav Pospíšil	6–3, 6–7(2–7), 5–0 RET
18.	8 June 2015	Sharm El Sheikh, F22	Clay	David Perez Sanz	6–2, 6–3
19.	14 September 2015	Sharm El Sheikh, F31	Clay	Bastian Trinker	7–6(7–3), 6–0
20.	18 January 2016	Sharm El Sheikh, F1	Hard	Enrique Lopez-Perez	6–3, 7–5
21.	25 January 2016	Sharm El Sheikh, F2	Hard	Julien Dubail	6–2, 6–1
22.	25 April 2016	Abuja, F2	Hard	Aldin Setkic	6–4, 4–2 (RET)

He also won 2 ITF titles in 2017, in Egypt (F20), beating Lorenzo Frigerio 6-4 ; 7-5 on July, 16th and in Italy (F25) beating Tomislav Brkic 6-4 ; 6-3 on August, 13th. Both titles were won on clay.

Doubles titles

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	10 March 2014	Sharm El Sheikh, F9	Clay	Sherif Sabry	Karim Hossam Mazen Osama	6–2, 6–3
2.	17 March 2014	Sharm El Sheikh, F10	Clay	Sherif Sabry	Stefan Fiacan Filip Horansky	4–6, 6–3, [10–6]
3.	16 June 2014	Mohammedia, Morocco	Clay	Fabiano de Paula	Richard Becker Elie Rousset	6–2, 3–6, [10–6]
4.	13 October 2014	Sharm El Sheikh, F28	Clay	Matwé Middelkoop	Sherif Sabry Libor Salaba	6–3, 6–4
5.	20 October 2014	Sharm El Sheikh, F29	Clay	Matwé Middelkoop	Libor Salaba Jan Zielinski	7–6(7–1), 6–3
6.	19 November 2014	Sharm El Sheikh, F33	Hard	Sherif Sabry	Jan Blecha Pascal Brunner	6–3, 6–1
7.	6 July 2015	Sassuolo, F7	Clay	Tristan-Samuel Weissborn	Alessandro Giannessi Matteo Volante	4–6, 7–5, [10–8]
8.	21 September 2015	Cairo, F32	Clay	Karim-Mohamed Maamoun	Luca Margaroli Adrien Puget	6–4, 7–5
9.	25 January 2016	Sharm El Sheikh, F2	Hard	Luca Margaroli	Enrique Lopez-Perez Laurent Rochette	6–3, 3–6, [10–7]
10.	22 February 2016	Sharm El Sheikh, F6	Hard	Karim-Mohamed Maamoun	Federico Bonacia Matteo Fago	6–3, 5–7, [10–8]
11.	12 September 2016	Meknes, Morocco	Clay	Luca Margaroli	Pedro Martínez Oriol Roca Batalla	6–4, 6–4

He also won an ITF event in 2017, when alongside Evgeny Karlovskiy he beat the number 3 seed Vladimir Polyakov/Evgeny Tyurnev 7-6 (4) ; 6-2, in the F5 of Finland, on November, 19th. In 2015, with Laurynas Grigelis, he won the title in Casablanca, defeating de Bakker/Fransen 6–4 ; 6–3.

Davis Cup ties played

22 ties played, 15 victories and 10 defeats in the singles ; 7 victories and 3 defeats in the doubles (from 2009 to May 2018)

References

External links

• Mohamed Safwat at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Mohamed Safwat at the International Tennis Federation
• Mohamed Safwat at the Davis Cup