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31/10/2015
WOMEN'S NOVEMBER RANKINGS

Kiwi King Soars Back Into World’s Top 20


New Zealand’s Joelle King has rocketed up 15 positions in the November PSA Women’s World Rankings to occupy the World No.13 berth and move back inside the world’s top twenty players for the first time since January 2015.

The 27-year-old former World No.4 missed almost a year of competitive PSA World Tour action between 2014 and 2015 after suffering a serious Achilles injury and found herself as low as No.57 in recent months but after making a successful comeback this summer she has continued to go from strength-to-strength and reached the final of the Carol Weymuller Open, PSA W50 tournament, in October.

King is one of five big risers within the world’s top twenty with Indian pairing Joshana Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal and Egyptian duo Nour El Tayeb and Heba El Torky also in the midst of upwards trajectories.

Delaware Investments U.S. Open runner-up El Tayeb moves up three positions to equal her career-best World No.5 standing after an impressive run at the PSA World Series event in which she defeated World No.1 Raneem El Welily - who maintains her grasp on the top spot for a third month.

After suffering a shock first round defeat to Chinappa yesterday (Oct 31) at the 2015 Qatar Classic, the second PSA World Series event of the season, El Welily could see the gap between her and the pairing of World No.2 Nicol David and World No.3 Laura Massaro narrow yet further if they can maintain their campaigns and triumph in Doha.

Meanwhile Chinappa moves up three places to World No.17 with compatriot Pallikal moving up five places to No.14 after her impressive run to the quarter-finals of the U.S. Open and El Torky moves into the top twenty for the first time in her career to hold the No.20 berth.

PSA Women’s World Rankings Top 20 - November 2015

Full Women's Rankings

Rank Prev

Player

Pts Ctry

1

1

 Raneen El Welily

2971

EGY

2

=

Nicol David

2152

MAS

3

=

Laura Massaro

2113

ENG

4

=

Camille Serme

1680

FRA

5

3

Nour El Tayeb

1340

EGY

6

=

Omneya Abdel Kawy

1292

EGY

7

2

Alison Waters

1175

ENG

8

1

Nour El Sherbini

1106

EGY

9

=

Nouran Gohar

808

EGY

10

=

Annie Au

744

HKG

11

=

Amanda Sobhy

715

USA

12

=

Sarah-Jane Perry

653

ENG

13

15

Joelle King

603

NZL

14

5

Dipika Pallikal

584

IND

15

1

Delia Arnold

576

MAS

16

3

Emma Beddoes

570

ENG

17

3

Joshana Chinappa

557

IND

18

=

Emily Whitlock

504

ENG

19

4

Rachael Grinham

482

AUS

20

4

Heba El Torky

465

EGY

Full Women's Rankings