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Ramy Returns To Top Three In World Rankings
While Egypt's Karim
Darwish extends his reign to six months at the top of the Dunlop PSA
Men's World Squash Rankings, according to the new June list published by the
Professional Squash Association, fellow countryman Ramy Ashour
moves up to third place behind Frenchman Gregory Gaultier.
Ashour, the 21-year-old
World Open champion from Cairo, has already claimed two PSA World Tour
titles this year – following his victory in the Davenport North
American Open in February by taking the Hurghada International trophy
on home soil in March.
Ashour leapfrogs
compatriot and former world number one Amr Shabana, who slips to No4 -
the three-time world champion's lowest position for three and a half years.
Nick Matthew
cements his status as the top-ranked Englishman by moving up to a
career-high-equalling fifth place. The 28-year-old from Sheffield has made
rapid strides up the world rankings since returning to Tour action last
September after a nine-month layoff following shoulder surgery. Matthew reached
the finals in his first three PSA events of the year, taking the title in the
Case Swedish Open in February.
His England team-mate
Adrian Grant makes his long-awaited top ten debut in the new list.
Runner-up in the Motor City Open and KL Open early in the year,
Grant went on to win the Indian Challenger No2 at the Calcutta Racket
Club to bring his career PSA Tour title haul to 16, thus making the
Yorkshire-based Londoner the current Englishman with the most Tour titles.
And Spaniard Borja
Golan is also celebrating a best-ever ranking in the June list. The
26-year-old from Santiago won his 19th Tour title at the Motor City Open
in Detroit – and rises one place to No11 to become Spain's joint highest ever
world-ranked player with Austin Adarraga, who reached 11 in May 1993!
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Rank |
Prev |
Player |
Pts |
Ctry |
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1 |
[1] |
Karim
Darwish |
1097 |
Egy |
|
2 |
[2] |
Gregory
Gaultier |
873 |
Fra |
|
3é |
[4] |
Ramy Ashour |
741 |
Egy |
| 4ê |
[3] |
Amr
Shabana |
735 |
Egy |
| 5é |
[6] |
Nick
Matthew |
667 |
Eng |
| 6ê |
[5] |
David Palmer |
576 |
Aus |
|
7 |
[7] |
Peter Barker |
487 |
Eng |
|
8 |
[9] |
Thierry Lincou |
433 |
Fra |
| 9é |
[10] |
Wael El Hindi |
431 |
Egy |
|
10é |
[11] |
Adrian Grant |
417 |
Eng |
| 11é |
[12] |
Borja Golan |
385 |
Esp |
|
12ê |
[9] |
James
Willstrop |
374 |
Eng |
|
13 |
[13] |
Azlan Iskandar |
314 |
Mas |
|
14 |
[14] |
Ong Beng Hee |
296 |
Mas |
|
15 |
[15] |
Aamir Atlas Khan |
287 |
Pak |
|
16 |
[16] |
Farhan Mehboob |
276 |
Pak |
|
17 |
[17] |
Alister Walker |
274 |
Eng |
| 18é |
[19] |
Laurens Jan Anjema |
266 |
Ned |
|
19ê |
[18] |
Mohamed El Shorbagy |
260 |
Egy |
|
20 |
[20] |
Stewart Boswell |
240 |
Aus |
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