Willstrop Holds Onto World No1 Ranking

Despite losing to his rival in the final of the Springfield Solutions British Grand Prix last month, James Willstrop maintains his lead over fellow Englishman Nick Matthew at the top of the new October Dunlop PSA Men's World Squash Rankings, published today by the Professional Squash Association.

The climax of the PSA International 70 event in Manchester marked the Yorkshire pair's 30th clash on the PSA World Tour - but Matthew extended his near-five-year unbeaten run over the 29-year-old from Leeds to retain the title.

Matthew is in second place in the new list, while Frenchman Gregory Gaultier holds onto third place and Egypt's Karim Darwish moves up to No4, ahead of his fellow countryman Ramy Ashour who slips to fifth place.

With Amr Shabana at No7, and Mohamed El Shorbagy and Omar Mosaad in 8th and 10th positions, respectively, Egyptians continue to occupy 50% of the world top ten!

And it is an Egyptian who celebrates the biggest leap in the top 20: Tarek Momen, the 24-year-old from Cairo who stunned the squash world by clinching two titles in September, rises six places to a career-high 13.

It was after winning the Colombian Open for the first time in Bogota that Momen, unseeded, claimed the biggest title of his career in Selangor where he defeated second-seeded compatriot Mohamed El Shorbagy in the final of the CIMB Malaysian Open.

October 2012 top 20 (inc. points average):

1	[1]	James Willstrop	ENG	1,685
2	[2]	Nick Matthew	ENG	1,384
3	[3]	Gregory Gaultier	FRA	1,216
4	[5]	Karim Darwish	EGY	873
5	[4]	Ramy Ashour	EGY	782
6	[7]	Peter Barker	ENG	668
7	[6]	Amr Shabana	EGY	655
8	[8]	Mohamed El Shorbagy	EGY	629
9	[9]	Laurens Jan Anjema	NED	498
10	[10]	Omar Mosaad	EGY	451
11	[11]	Daryl Selby	ENG	424
12	[13]	Alister Walker	BOT	392
13	[19]	Tarek Momen	EGY	390
14	[12]	Tom Richards	ENG	375
15	[14]	Hisham Mohd Ashour	EGY	367
16	[17]	Borja Golan	ESP	330
17	[16]	Cameron Pilley	AUS	328
18	[18]	Simon Rosner	GER	323
19	[15]	Adrian Grant	ENG	315
20	[20]	Nicolas Mueller	SUI	295

For full list - see www.psaworldtour.com