Meet Nadien el Hammamy, the teenaged daughter of a glass artist who paints four walls of the squash court with creative racquet-work | Sport-others News
They don’t make glass slippers for princesses in Egypt. Over the last decade, Egypt’s women squash players hit a small black crazy ball as hard as they could against three glass walls and create a winning din. Nadien el Hammamy is the latest in a long jostling line of players, though her connection to fortified glass started much earlier. Her father Walid Onsy is one of Egypt’s most renowned artists, known for his paintings on fused glass. Starting with one piece a day in a solitary kiln, experimenting with glass and colours, he now creates masterpieces that shimmer on the walls of the rich and influential. “His art is very special and unique. Not many in Egypt do it. So I was inspired by his creativity,” Nadien says, having taken after his father to study graphic design, alongside playing squash. Art flows in Egyptian squash too, and Amr Shabana (a sort of Roger Federer within glass courts) is a massive inspiration for Nadien besides current World No.1 Hania el Hammamy. It took an entire nation …
