July Women's World Rankings, Annie Au Hits A New High by Elliot Selby
July 3, 2011-
Annie Au underlines her status as Hong Kong’s highest ever ranked
player in this month’s new WISPA world rankings, the 22 year old
jumps up one place to reach a career high of nine.
In a fairly quiet month for the top players on the tour, there weren’t too many other significant changes in the top 20.
The two finalists from the recently finished Boca Del Rio International
both move up two spots respectively. Natalie Grinham edges herself
slowly back to the top ten, rising to no.16, her highest ranking in
almost a year. Her conqueror in the final, Samantha Teran, returns to
no.19 in the rankings after a brief spell outside the top twenty.
Mexico’s greatest ever player, came from two games down to stun
Natalie Grinham and delight her home fans in Veracruz.
There were a number of significant rises outside the top twenty as well
this month, with many up and coming players recording career high
rankings.
Most notably:
Heba El Torky makes her debut in the top 30 after claiming the Egyptian
Circuit 2 title. The 20 year old has the best win-loss record in finals
on tour, having been in five and never lost one!
Melody Francis surges up to a high of 44. The 22 year old Aussie
recorded back to back wins at the Millicent Open and the South
Australian Open and will be looking to add more titles during this
month’s Australian circuit.
There were also career high rankings for: British Under 23
Champion Victoria Lust at 35, Olivia Blatchford at 36, Emily Whitlock
at 55 who reached the final of the Le Sport Open, Milou Van Der Heijden
at 56 who reached her first Silver level quarter final in Mexico,
Nouran El Torky at 59 who was a semi finalist in Egypt, Stephanie
Edmison at 70, Yathreb Adel at 74, Amanda Landers-Murphy at 75 who
reached her first tour final at the South Australian Open, Tesni Evans
at 93 who also reached her first tour final and Lisa Aitken at 94.
This month the world’s top players will be in action at the World
Series CIMB Malaysian Open and the Gold Singapore Open. Nicol David,
having spent her 60th month at No.1 will be defending both her titles.
JULY WISPA TOP 20
1 Nicol David MAS
2 Jenny Duncalf ENG
3 Rachael Grinham AUS
4 Madeline Perry IRL
5 Alison Waters ENG
6 Kasey Brown AUS
7 Laura Massaro ENG
8 Omneya Abdel Kawy EGY
9 Annie Au HKG
10 Camille Serme FRA
11 Vanessa Atkinson NED
12 Raneem El Weleily EGY
13 Donna Urquhart AUS
14 Joelle King NZL
15 Low Wee Wern MAS
16 Natalie Grinham NED
17 Jaclyn Hawkes NZL
18 Nour El Tayeb EGY
19 Samantha Teran MEX
20 Sarah Kippax ENG