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01/07/2008
MEN'S JULY RANKINGS
Amr Shabana Celebrates 28th Month As World Number One
Amr Shabana
Celebrates 28th Month As World Number One
In an unchanged top twenty list, world champion
Amr Shabana celebrates his 28th successive month as world number one in
the July Dunlop PSA Men's World Squash Rankings, published today
(Tuesday) by the Professional Squash Association.
The run confirms the Egyptian's status as the
fifth longest-standing world number one of all-time - behind Pakistanis
Jansher Khan and Jahangir Khan, Englishman Peter Nicol and
Australian Geoff Hunt.
Frenchman Gregory Gaultier remains in
second place, ahead of England's James Willstrop at three; Shabana's
fellow countryman Ramy Ashour at No4, and Australia's recently-crowned
British Open champion David Palmer at five.
Pakistan's Aamir Atlas Khan consolidates
his status as the highest-ranked teenager by rising to a career-high 23. The
17-year-old from Peshawar justified his top seeding in last month's CAS
International by winning the $30,000 PSA title in Islamabad to bring his
Tour title triumphs on home soil to three.
Egyptian Omar Mosaad also celebrates a
best-ever ranking. The 20-year-old from Cairo won the Scott Wealth
Management Open in June in California, USA, against expectation - and now
rises to 24.
A notable absentee from the July list is
Welshman Alex Gough. The former world No5, who has appeared in the
rankings without a break from September 1993 - and maintained a presence in the
world top 30 from May 1997 until June 2008 - has retired from the Tour to take
up the new PSA position as Chief Operating Officer.
1 [1] Amr Shabana EGY
2 [2] Gregory Gaultier FRA
3 [3] James Willstrop ENG
4 [4] Ramy Ashour EGY
5 [5] David
Palmer AUS
6 [6] Thierry Lincou FRA
7 [7] Nick
Matthew ENG
8 [8] Karim Darwish EGY
9 [9] Wael
El Hindi EGY
10 [10] Peter
Barker ENG
11 [11] Ong Beng Hee MAS
12 [12] Lee Beachill ENG
13 [13] Mohd Azlan Iskandar MAS
14 [14] Stewart
Boswell AUS
15 [15] Adrian
Grant ENG
16 [16] Laurens Jan Anjema NED
17 [17] Olli Tuominen FIN
18 [18] Cameron Pilley AUS
19 [19]
John White SCO
20 [20] Shahier Razik CAN
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