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Coll Returns to Top Five in Men’s October Rankings
New Zealand’s Paul Coll has moved up a spot to a joint career-high World
No.5 ranking after the PSA Men’s World Rankings for October were
released today.
Coll, 27, made a winning start to the 2019/20 season last month as he
defeated Welshman Joel Makin to capture the Open de France - Nantes 2019
presented by Tailor Capital title, marking his 14th PSA trophy.
The Greymouth man, known on tour as ‘Superman’ for his incredible feats
of athleticism, rises ahead of Germany’s Simon Rösner, who drops down to
No.6.
Further up the rankings, back-to-back title wins at the J.P. Morgan
China Open and Oracle NetSuite Open have seen Egypt’s World No.2 Mohamed
ElShorbagy cut the gap between himself and World No.1 Ali Farag to 341
points.
ElShorbagy has spent 40 months atop the World Rankings during his
career, but surrendered that mantle to Farag in March of this year, and
has been playing catch-up ever since.
ElShorbagy defeated Farag in the final of the China Open, and followed
that up by defeating World No.3 Tarek Momen in last night’s Oracle
NetSuite Open final. Karim Abdel Gawad, who will make his first
appearance of the season at this month’s FS Investments U.S. Open, takes
the other spot inside the top five.
Meanwhile, Peru’s Diego Elias moves up to a career-high No.7 ranking,
and is followed by Mohamed Abouelghar at No.8 and Miguel Rodriguez at
No.9. Marwan ElShorbagy ends a six month absence from the top 10 at the
expense of India’s Saurav Ghosal, who drops a place to No.11.
Joel Makin and Omar Mosaad stay at No.12 and No.13, respectively, while
Fares Dessouky rises a place to No.14, swapping places with Zahed Salem,
who falls to No.15.
Gregoire Marche remains at No.16 and is followed by English duo Daryl
Selby - who reclaims the mantle of England No.1 for the first time since
September 2018 - and James Willstrop, with Australia's Ryan Cuskelly
following at No.19.
Declan James completes the top 20.
PSA Men’s World Rankings Top 20 - October 2019
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Full Men's Rankings |
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Rank |
Prev |
Player............................ |
Pts |
Ctry |
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1 |
= |
Ali Farag |
2,180 |
EGY |
|
2 |
= |
Mohamed ElShorbagy |
1,839 |
EGY |
|
3 |
= |
Tarek Momen |
1,319 |
EGY |
|
4 |
= |
Karim Abdel Gawad |
1,241 |
EGY |
|
5 |
↑1 |
Paul Coll |
988 |
NZL |
|
6 |
↓1 |
Simon Rösner |
931 |
GER |
|
7 |
↑1 |
Diego Elias |
720 |
PER |
|
8 |
↓1 |
Mohamed Abouelghar |
695 |
EGY |
|
9 |
= |
Miguel Rodriguez |
580 |
COL |
|
10 |
↑1 |
Marwan ElShorbagy |
528 |
EGY |
|
11 |
↓1 |
Saurav Ghosal |
498 |
IND |
|
12 |
= |
Joel Makin |
439 |
WAL |
|
13 |
= |
Omar Mosaad |
412 |
EGY |
|
14 |
↑1 |
Fares Dessouky |
406 |
EGY |
|
15 |
↓1 |
Zahed Salem |
405 |
EGY |
|
16 |
= |
Gregoire Marche |
402 |
FRA |
|
17 |
↑2 |
Daryl Selby |
345 |
ENG |
|
18 |
= |
James Willstrop |
341 |
ENG |
|
19 |
↑1 |
Ryan Cuskelly |
338 |
AUS |
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20 |
↓3 |
Declan James |
333 |
ENG |
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Full Men's Rankings |
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