El Sherbini Storms To No.2 In Women’s World Rankings by Nathan Clarke April 2, 2016
- After a sterling month during which she lifted the prestigious Allam
British Open title and finished runner-up at the Windy City Open,
Egyptian Nour El Sherbini has stormed up the standings to occupy the
No.2 berth in the April PSA Women's World Rankings released today.
The
20-year-old has been the in-form player so far in 2016 and moves up
three places to a new career high which will come as a boost ahead of
this month's PSA Women's World Championship in which she will be many
people's favourite for success.
El Sherbini is now just 200
points behind World No.1 Laura Massaro, who remains atop the standings
for a fourth consecutive month, while eight-time World Champion Nicol
David falls to No.5 - her lowest ranking since 2004. David has claimed
just one title on the PSA World Series so far during the 2015/16 season
and will be under pressure to perform on home soil when the PSA Women’s
World Championship gets underway in Kuala Lumpur on April 25.
David
is narrowly behind No.3 Raneem El Welily and No.4 Camille Serme in the
standings while British Open runner-up Nouran Gohar moves up to a
career high No.7.
Former World No.4 Joelle King moves up
to No.9 to make her first appearance inside the top ten since October
2014 while England’s Victoria Lust and Hong Kong’s Annie Au both move
up one place to No.18 and No.11, respectively.
