Ramy Ashour Extends World Number One Ranking by Howard Harding August 1, 2013
- Ramy Ashour celebrates his eighth successive month as world number
one in the August Dunlop PSA Men's World Squash Rankings published
today by the Professional Squash Association.
The 25-year-old
Egyptian, unbeaten on the PSA World Tour since May 2012, began his
latest reign in January and maintains a 652 points average lead over
his nearest rival Gregory Gaultier.
In an unchanged world
top 20, Frenchman Gaultier holds onto second place, followed by
Englishmen James Willstrop and Nick Matthew at No3 and No4,
respectively.
Egyptians occupy four
further places behind Ashour in the world top ten: Karim Darwish at 5;
Mohamed Elshorbagy in sixth place; Amr Shabana at No8; and Tarek Momen
in 10th place.
August 2013 top 20 (inc. points average): 1 [1] Ramy Ashour EGY 1,761 2 [2] Gregory Gaultier FRA 1,109 3 [3] James Willstrop ENG 982 4 [4] Nick Matthew ENG 941 5 [5] Karim Darwish EGY 705 6 [6] Mohamed Elshorbagy EGY 674 7 [7] Peter Barker ENG 520 8 [8] Amr Shabana EGY 514 9 [9] Borja Golan ESP 471 10 [10] Tarek Momen EGY 459 11 [11] Omar Mosaad EGY 410 12 [12] Simon Rosner GER 347 13 [13] Cameron Pilley AUS 343 14 [14] Daryl Selby ENG 336 15 [15] Alister Walker BOT 310 16 [16] Stephen Coppinger RSA 268 17 [17] Tom Richards ENG 267 18 [18] Laurens Jan Anjema NED 265 19 [19] Miguel Angel Rodriguez COL 260 20 [20] Saurav Ghosal IND 259
