Sarah Mahboob Khan (born 9 February 1991) is a Pakistani
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
player.
Playing for
Pakistan
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at the
Fed Cup, Mahboob Khan has a win–loss of 2–8.
Career
Sarah Mahboob Khan was born in
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi ( or ; Urdu, ) is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad, and third largest in Punjab after Lahore and Faisalabad. Rawalpindi is next to Pakistan's ...
, Pakistan. Her father Mahboob is a tennis coach.
In 2004, Sarah Mahboob Khan became the youngest ever Pakistan National Champion, aged 14.
She has been Pakistan's leading tennis player since 2005.
[ She is the only player to have won Pakistan national titles on clay, hard, and grass, and has won a record number of National Rankings Ladies' Singles Titles.][
In October 2010, Sarah Mahboob Khan became the first Pakistani female tennis player to qualify for the main draw of an ITF tournament outside Pakistan,][ and the first to reach the quarter-final of an ITF tournament, achieving this in the doubles at ]Ain Sukhna
Al-'Ain al-Sokhna ( ar, العين السخنة, al-ʿAyn as-Sukhna , "the Hot Spring") is a town in the Suez Governorate, lying on the western shore of the Red Sea's Gulf of Suez. It is situated south of Suez and approximately east of Cairo.
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, Egypt, partnering Irina Constantinide.
In May 2011, she signed to play for the tennis team of the University of New Mexico
The University of New Mexico (UNM; es, Universidad de Nuevo México) is a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Founded in 1889, it is the state's flagship academic institution and the largest by enrollment, with over 25,400 ...
.
After her sophomore year, Khan transferred to play for James Madison University in Virginia, where she played for four years and graduated in May 2015. She then returned to Pakistan.
Fed Cup participation
Singles
Doubles
References
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1991 births
Living people
Pakistani female tennis players
Racket sportspeople from Rawalpindi
James Madison University alumni
Sportswomen from Punjab, Pakistan
Tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games
Asian Games competitors for Pakistan
South Asian Games bronze medalists for Pakistan
South Asian Games medalists in tennis
21st-century Pakistani women