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02/10/2014
MEN'S OCTOBER RANKINGS

Men's October Rankings

Elshorbagy Rises To World No.2

#PSAWorldTour

After an emphatic start to the 2014/15 PSA World Tour season in which he has already claimed a hat-trick of tournaments including the prestigious Hong Kong Squash Open, CIMB Malaysian Open and Abierto Mexicano de Racquets titles, Egyptian Mohamed Elshorbagy has risen to a career-high World No.2 in the October PSA World Tour Rankings.

The 22-year-old from Alexandria, who is based in England, leaps above World Champion Nick Matthew courtesy of his recent run of excellent form which included a 3-2 victory over World No.1 Gregory Gaultier in the final of the hong Kong World Series event - while the Frenchman maintains his place atop the rankings for a seventh consecutive month.

"Being the World No.2 is great and another step towards my ultimate goals," said Elshorbagy.

"However to be the number two in the rankings has never been a goal for me. My sights are set higher than that and I have a big chance to take Gregory Gaultier off the top ranking at the US Open.

"He will have to do a lot of work there to protect his ranking as I won't let that chance slip away easily and I'm very hungry to keep improving."

Elshorbagy is just one of four Egyptian who climb up the rankings in October, with his younger brother Marwan joining Omar Mosaad and Karim Darwish in building on their September rankings.

Marwan rises two places to No.15 with Mossad up three places to No.11 while Darwish, who dropped out of the top ten for the first time since 2007 in the September rankings, returns to the elite list to occupy the No.10 slot at the expense of compatriot Tarek Momen who falls three places to No.12.

Further movement inside the top ten sees China Open winner and Commonwealth Games silver medalist James Willstrop rise one place to occupy the No.6 ranking with fellow English Commonwealth Games competitor Daryl Selby matching his career-best ranking of World No.9, which he last held in September 2010.

Elsewhere in the rankings, Chinese player Junjie Wang is the biggest riser in October, jumping an impressive 272 places to occupy the No.174 spot.

 

FULL PSA RANKINGS  

Rank Prev

Player

Pts Ctry

1

1 Gregory Gaultier 1549

FRA

2

  ↑1

Mohamed Elshorbagy

1378

EGY

3

 ↓1

Nick Matthew

1368

ENG

4

 = 

Ramy Ashour

821

EGY

5

 = 

Amr Shabana

758

EGY

6

↑1

James Willstrop

715

ENG

7

↓1

Borja Golan

637

ESP

8

 = 

Peter Barker

513

ENG

9

↑3

Tarek Momen

474

EGY

10

 =

Daryl Selby

468

ENG

11

↓2

Karim Darwish

463

EGY

14

↑3

Omar Mosaad  

409

EGY

12

↓1

Simon Rösner 

447

GER

17

 ↑2

Marwan Elshorbagy 

358

EGY

13

↓1

Miguel Angel Rodriguez 

426

COL

15

↓1

Laurens Jan Anjema

340

NED

16

↓1

Saurav Ghosal 

294

IND

18

 =

Karim Abdel Gawad  

292

EGY

19

 =

Mathieu Castagnet 

283

FRA

20 = Max Lee 270 HKG
FULL PSA RANKINGS