No Pakistani player stands in the top 20 of the latest Men’s Professional Squash Association (PSA) World Rankings released on Sunday.
The first Pakistani player Farhan Mehboob to make it in the rankings lies at No 45 while Farhan Zaman grabs 55th position in the rankings, said a PSA press release issued here.
Meanwhile, a 20-year-old Peruvian Diego Elias has moved up two places to a career-high World No.15 in the rankings courtesy of a sublime run of form that saw him reach the semi-finals of the 2017 Oracle NetSuite Open.
Elias, the former junior world champion, powered his way past three-time world champion Nick Matthew – who remains at World No.4 in the latest standings – to reach the last four before losing out to current world champion Karim Abdel Gawad in a hard-fought five-game battle.
Meanwhile, Gawad remains at No 2 for a fifth straight month but has narrowed the gap on No 1 Gregory Gaultier, with the Frenchman notching up a fifth successive month atop the standings while Mohamed ElShorbagy, who beat Gawad to the title in San Francisco, remains at World No.3.
Ali Farag (5), Marwan ElShorbagy (6), Tarek Momen (8) and Fares Dessouky (9) complete a six-strong Egyptian presence within the Top 10, with England’s James Willstrop (7) and New Zealand’s Paul Coll (10) occupying the remaining positions in an unchanged lineup.
Outside the top 10, former world no 1 Ramy Ashour has moved up three places to No 11 following his victory at the 2017 JP Morgan China Open in early September, moving ahead of Germany’s Simon R’sner, Mohamed Abouelghar and England’s Daryl Selby – who sits one place above Elias.
Australian duo Ryan Cuskelly and Cameron Pilley are at No 16 and No 17, respectively, just ahead of Spanish star Borja Golan with Mexican Cesar Salazar and Egyptian Zahed Mohamed completing the Top 20.
