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Ramy Ashour
Maintains World Ranking Lead
Egypt's Ramy Ashour
maintains his lead at the top of the March Dunlop PSA Men's World Squash
Rankings, but second-placed Englishman Nick Matthew has reduced the
gap in the new list published by the Professional Squash Association.
The world's top two players
met for the second time this year in last month's final of the North American
Open – but this time Matthew emerged triumphant in the second PSA Super
Series 2010 event of the year in Richmond, Virginia, as the Yorkshireman
ended a four-match winning streak by Ashour.
While Egyptian Amr
Shabana, who lost to Ashour in a five-game semi-final in the USA, holds onto
third place, in-form Englishman James Willstrop rises two places to take
over fourth place after a semi-final berth in Richmond and a title triumph in
the year's opening PSA Super Series event at the JP Morgan Tournament of
Champions in New York.
Veteran Frenchman
Thierry Lincou also has cause for celebration after moving back into the
world's top eight, leapfrogging David Palmer after beating his Australian
rival en-route to winning the Bluenose Classic in Canada last month to
notch up his 22nd PSA World Tour title.
Rising English star
Daryl Selby moves up three places to No12 to move ahead of compatriot
Alister Walker – boosted by an unexpected runners-up berth in the Bluenose
Classic.
And Australian Cameron
Pilley is rewarded with a career-high world No14 ranking after reaching last
month's Swedish Open semi-finals unseeded.
A surprise runner-up finish
in the Motor City Open in Detroit in February has seen Mohd Azlan
Iskandar move up to 18 – now ahead of fellow Malaysian Ong Beng Hee
for the second time this year.
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Rank |
Prev |
Player |
Pts |
Ctry |
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1 |
[1] |
Ramy Ashour |
1155 |
Egy |
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2 |
[2] |
Nick Matthew |
106 |
Eng |
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3 |
[3] |
Amr Shabana |
916 |
Egy |
|
4é |
[6] |
James Willstrop |
718 |
Eng |
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5ê |
[4] |
Karim Darwish |
682 |
Egy |
|
6ê |
[5] |
Gregory Gaultier |
633 |
Fra |
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7 |
[7] |
Peter
Barker |
537 |
Eng |
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8é |
[9] |
Thierry Lincou |
505 |
Fra |
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9ê |
[8] |
David Palmer |
463 |
Aus |
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10 |
[10] |
Adrian
Grant |
391 |
Eng |
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11 |
[11] |
Wael El
Hindi |
348 |
Egy |
|
12é |
[15] |
Daryl Selby |
335 |
Eng |
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13ê |
[12] |
Alister
Walker |
319 |
Eng |
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14é |
[17] |
Cameron
Pilley |
303 |
Aus |
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15ê |
[13] |
Laurens Jan
Anjema |
302 |
Ned |
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16ê |
[14] |
Mohamed El
Shorbagy |
286 |
Egy |
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17ê |
[16] |
Stewart
Boswell |
279 |
Aus |
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18é |
[20] |
Azlan Iskandar |
270 |
Mas |
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19 |
[19] |
Ong Beng Hee |
249 |
Mas |
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20ê |
[18] |
Aamir Atlas
Khan |
258 |
Pak |
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