Career
He reached a career-high world ranking of World Number. 13 in December 2015
Mazen Hesham (sometimes called the Black Falcon) is a young up-and-coming player on the PSA world tour. He first became visible to the squash crowds radar in 2012 when he secured 3rd place in the WSF junior championships in Doha.
After this momentous victory for Mazen he joined the PSA world Tour.
Mazen Hesham secured his first PSA world tour title in March of the same year in the National Security Council scram series in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. Mazen Hesham opened his second year as a part of the PSA world tour by winning the U-23 nationals for Egypt.
He was crowned the best U-23 player in Egypt to start off 2013. He beat Steve Finitsis of Australia in 4 sets, in 56 minutes.
Mazen had completed 3 World Tour titles and was now rising to prominence in the squash community.
In his momentous year, he managed to take 2 more PSA world tour titles. The first was in May, when he managed to take the CCI international open in India. The second title was at the inaugural Maharashtra state PSA open.
Mazen was the fourth seed, but surprised anyone on his way to his 5th PSA title.
He started out in April with his 6th PSA title in Houston, Texas, United States of America. He defeated top-20 player Stephen Coppinger of South Africa 3-1 to take the inaugural lifetime Houston Open Grand Prix title. This victory thrust Mazen Hesham into the top-30 in the world for the first time in his career.
Mazen now became tied for PSA SquashTV’s most watched player. He was tied with “the artist”, Ramy Ashour.
In the same month, Mazen Hesham’s shot in one of his previous tournaments was rated “shot of the month”.
Mazen Hesham’s first semifinal appearance in a PSA World Series event was in the Qatar Classic 2015. He reached the semi-final after beating another rising start, Ali Farag. He lost out to World #2 Gregory Gaultier, but this was one of his best performances of all time.
This victory pushed Mazen Hesham into his highest recorded world ranking of 13.
Mazen Hesham then got injured in the World Championships against Ramy Ashour which took him out of squash for 5 weeks. He had to cancel two of his tournaments but he will be back stronger than ever in 2016.
Mazen Hesham is one of the most speculated rising stars because he is projected to go very far in his career, perhaps even reach world number 1 someday. Even top players such as Mohamed Elshorbagy and Gregory Gaultier are wary of this young maverick.