Egyptians
Reclaim
Top Three Places ...
 Egyptians
dominate the top three position in the Dunlop PSA Men's
World Squash Rankings for the second time this year after
World Open champion Ramy Ashour reclaims third place
in the new April list.
Karim Darwish, a PSA World Tour finalist seven times since
the beginning of last year and winner of three titles,
celebrates his fourth month as world number one, ahead of
predecessor Amr Shabana at No2.
Victory in February's Davenport North American Open, the
second Super Series event of the year, helped lift
21-year-old Ashour to third place - overtaking Gregory
Gaultier, the Frenchman who clinched the first Super Series
title of the year at the JP Morgan Tournament of Champions
in New York before going on to win last month's ATCO Super
Series Finals crown at The Queen's Club in London for the
second year in a row.
Fresh from his victory in last month's ISS Canary Wharf
Classic in London - the 25th PSA Tour title of his career -
Australian David Palmer moves back into the top five.
Spain's Borja Golan, who won the Motor City Open in Detroit
in February before going on to claim an unexpected place in
the Canary Wharf Classic quarter-finals, jumps two places to
a career-high world No12 ranking - the highest-ranking by a
Spaniard.
Pakistan's Farhan Mehboob also claims a career-best slot in
the April list. The 20-year-old from Peshawar, a nephew of
the great Jansher Khan, moves up to 18. |
Grainger
Overtakes
The Grinhams ...
 While
Natalie Grainger's shock victory over world champion
Nicol David in last month's KL Open final does nothing to
dislodge the Malaysian from the top of the new April Women's
World Squash Rankings, the US star leaps to a five-year high
No2 ranking in the April WISPA list.
The upset ended a sensational 17-month 56-match unbeaten
Tour run by Nicol David – but the 25-year-old from Penang,
who had not previously tasted defeat since the World Open in
Madrid in October 2007, extends her undisturbed reign as
world number one to 33 months.
But Grainger is enjoying a rejuvenation of her illustrious
squash career. The KL Open triumph marked the 31-year-old's
third successive WISPA title of the year, and the 22nd of
her career – and she achieved it in her 40th final.
The WISPA President returned to her homeland to pick up her
third US National title in a row, then moved into lobbying
mode by joining fellow Olympic Ambassadors to promote her
sport's bid for inclusion in the 2016 Games at the
Sportaccord meeting in Denver.
Natalie Grinham, the former world No2 from the Netherlands,
slips to four in the list – below her Australian sister
Rachael Grinham for the first time since last September.
While the English trio of Jenny Duncalf, Alison Waters and
Laura Lengthorn-Massaro retain fifth, sixth and seventh
places, respectively, their England team-mate Tania Bailey –
still recovering from knee surgery last year - jumps three
places to 15 after a long-awaited Tour win at the NSC Series
No5 in March in Kuala Lumpur. |
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