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Gohar Returns To Top Five In PSA Women's World
Rankings
Egyptian Nouran Gohar, who yesterday celebrated her 20th birthday,
has moved up two places in the latest PSA Women's World Rankings,
released today (October 1), to occupy the World No.5 spot in an
all-change Top Ten.
The hard-hitting player from Cairo, who last month fell out of the
top five for the first time in over a year, enjoyed a purple patch
of form throughout September, reaching the final of the J.P. Morgan
China Open - where she lost to compatriot Nour El Sherbini, who
remains at World No.1 for an 18th consecutive month - before lifting
her first title of the season at the Macau Open.
She is now within 200 points of England's former World No.1 Laura
Massaro, who occupies the World No.4 berth, while Frenchwoman
Camille Serme has moved up one place to a career-high equalling
World No.2 - overtaking Raneem El Welily who falls back to No.3, her
lowest ranking in six months.
Serme, who was the only player to win two PSA World Series titles
during the 2016/17 campaign, is now within 150 points of El Sherbini
ahead of the first World Series title of the 2017/18 season - the
U.S. Open - which gets underway next week.
Elsewhere inside the top ten England's 27-year-old Sarah-Jane Perry
has narrowed the gap on eight-time World Champion Nicol David to
less that 20 points courtesy of her victory at the 2017 Oracle
NetSuite Open, where she recovered from championship ball down to
defeat David in the finale.
American Amanda Sobhy, the Harvard-graduate who has been out injured
for over six months, falls out of the Top 10 for the first time two
years to be replaced by New Zealand's Joelle King, while her Team
USA compatriot Olivia Blatchford moves up one position to No.16.
Blatchford's rise sees Welsh player Tesni Evans drop down two
positions to sit just above Australian Donna Urquhart while Egyptian
Salma Hany Ibrahim and Hong Kong's Joey Chan swap positions at No.19
and No.20, respectively, to complete the top 20.
PSA Women's World Rankings Top 20 - October 2017
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Full Women's Rankings |
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Rank |
Prev |
Player............................ |
Pts |
Ctry |
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1 |
= |
Nour El Sherbini |
1,383 |
EGY |
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2 |
↑1 |
Camille Serme |
1,252 |
FRA |
|
3 |
↓1 |
Raneem
El Welily |
981 |
EGY |
|
4 |
= |
Laura Massaro |
975 |
ENG |
|
5 |
↑2 |
Nouran
Gohar |
784 |
EGY |
|
6 |
↓1 |
Nicol David |
737 |
MAS |
|
7 |
↓1 |
Sarah-Jane Perry |
725 |
ENG |
|
8 |
= |
Alison Waters |
516 |
ENG |
|
9 |
↑1 |
Annie
Au |
435 |
HKG |
|
10 |
↑1 |
Joelle King |
405 |
NZL |
|
11 |
↓2 |
Amanda Sobhy |
391 |
USA |
|
12 |
↑1 |
Emily
Whitlock |
361 |
ENG |
|
13 |
↓1 |
Joshna Chinappa |
355 |
IND |
|
14 |
= |
Nour
El Tayeb |
354 |
EGY |
|
15 |
↑1 |
Victoria Lust |
318 |
ENG |
|
16 |
↑1 |
Olivia
Blatchford |
308 |
USA |
|
17 |
↓2 |
Tesni Evans |
303 |
WAL |
|
18 |
= |
Donna
Urquhart |
294 |
AUS |
|
19 |
↑1 |
Salma Hany Ibrahim |
251 |
EGY |
|
20 |
↓1 |
Joey
Chan |
251 |
HKG |
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Full Women's Rankings |
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