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Ramy Ashour Holds Onto
Top World Ranking
Egypt's Ramy Ashour retains his world number one ranking, according to
the new February Dunlop PSA Men's World Squash Rankings published by the
Professional Squash Association.
Two
successive PSA Super Series title successes at the end of last year took
the 22-year-old from Cairo to the top of the world list for the first time in
January.
And,
despite losing in the final of the JP Morgan Tournament of Champions in
New York last month, Ashour has extended his lead over second-placed Nick
Matthew, the Englishman who finished as runner-up to the Egyptian in
December's PSA Masters in India and Saudi International in Saudi
Arabia.
Ashour is joined in the top four by fellow countrymen Amr Shabana and
Karim Darwish – the former holding onto third place and the latter rising to
No4 after a semi-final berth in New York.
But
James Willstrop – the Englishman who beat Darwish, Shabana and Ashour
en-route to winning the Tournament of Champions, the first 2010 PSA
Super Series event - rises to No6 in the new list, leapfrogging compatriot
Peter Barker.
Dutchman Laurens Jan Anjema moves up one place to a career-high-equalling
No13, despite yet to get his 2010 PSA Tour campaign underway.
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Rank |
Prev |
Player |
Pts |
Ctry |
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1 |
[1] |
Ramy Ashour |
1200 |
Egy |
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2 |
[2] |
Nick
Matthew |
1016 |
Eng |
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3 |
[3] |
Amr
Shabana |
951 |
Egy |
| 4é |
[5] |
Karim
Darwish |
703 |
Egy |
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5ê |
[4] |
Gregory
Gaultier |
648 |
Fra |
|
6é |
[7] |
James
Willstrop |
643 |
Eng |
| 7ê |
[6] |
Peter Barker |
588 |
Eng |
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8 |
[8] |
David Palmer |
502 |
Aus |
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9 |
[9] |
Thierry Lincou |
454 |
Fra |
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10 |
[10] |
Adrian Grant |
391 |
Eng |
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11 |
[11] |
Wael El Hindi |
361 |
Egy |
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12 |
[12] |
Alister Walker |
329 |
Eng |
| 13é |
[14] |
Laurens Jan Anjema |
316 |
Ned |
| 14é |
[14] |
Mohamed El Shorbagy |
309 |
Egy |
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15ê |
[13] |
Daryl Selby |
308 |
Eng |
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16 |
[16] |
Stewart Boswell |
287 |
Aus |
| 17é |
[18] |
Cameron Pilley |
276 |
Aus |
| 18é |
[19] |
Aamir
Atlas Khan |
250 |
Pak |
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19é |
[20] |
Ong Beng Hee |
248 |
Mas |
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20 |
[17] |
Azlan Iskandar |
247 |
Mas |
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