While
Malaysia's Nicol David maintains her healthy lead at the top of
an unchanged top five, France's Camille Serme moves up to No.6 in
the May Women's World Squash Rankings published today by the
Women's Squash Association.
David
extends her unbroken reign as world number one to 106 months - ahead of
second-placed Egyptian Raneem El Welily; English players
Alison Waters and Laura Massaro, at three and four,
respectively; and Egypt's Nour El Tayeb at No.5.
Serme,
winner of a seventh successive French National Championship title in
February, can credit her May rankings rise to an unexpected semi-final
berth in the Windy City Open in February in Chicago, where she
was the WSA World Series event's sixth seed.
Single-position rises see both Emma Beddoes and Nouran Gohar
record career-best rankings. Beddoes, the third-highest-ranked English
player on the list, moves up to No.13 after winning her 10th and biggest
WSA Tour title at the Emerson RC Pro Series in St Louis, USA, in
March.
Egyptian teenager Gohar rises to No.15. The 17-year-old from Cairo is
the youngest player in the top 20.
An
impressive five-place leap sees Salma Hany Ibrahim celebrate a
career-high world No.19 ranking while extending to six the number of
Egyptians in the world top 20. The 18-year-old from Alexandria already
boasts three WSA World Tour titles from four final appearances.
