Ramy
Ashour Is PSA Player of the Year
Egypt's Ramy Ashour received the PSA Player of the Year
award for the first time at the World Squash Awards in Rotterdam.
At a
star-studded dinner held during the PSA World Open in the Dutch
'city of sport', the 24-year-old world number two from Cairo pipped
fellow countryman Mohamed El Shorbagy, Dutch star Laurens Jan
Anjema, and 2010 winner Nick Matthew, the world No1 from
England, to the title.
Nicolas Mueller
also became the first Swiss player to win a World Squash Award
when he received the PSA Young Player of the Year award.
Ashour,
one of the youngest players in the world top 20, is enjoying a
distinguished career on the PSA World Tour. Twice a winner of the
PSA Young Player of the Year award, the record two-time world
junior champion rapidly made his mark on the senior tour. He first
topped the world rankings in January 2010 after bursting into the top 10
just two years after turning pro - and has already picked up three
PSA World Series titles this year.
Mueller, a 22-year-old from Hirzel, near Zurich, has made rapid strides
on the Tour since joining the PSA in 2005. He qualified for three World
Series events this year, and at the Qatar Classic in Doha
celebrated his first quarter-final berth after the best win of his
career, over four-time world champion Amr Shabana. Muller
celebrated a career-high world No22 ranking this month.
"Ramy
is one of the most exciting players on the Tour and a major draw
wherever he plays," said PSA CEO Alex Gough. "He was the board's
unanimous vote as our player of the year.
"It's
always special when a player from one of the sport's less well-known
countries bursts through - and Nicolas Mueller of Switzerland is
one of our latest breakthrough stars. He has already shown his promise
and will undoubtedly be one of the game's top players in the near
future."
The
World Squash Awards were founded in 2005 by Eventis Sports
Marketing.
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