02/10/2014
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.
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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 |
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