September Women's Rankings: Sobhy in Top-10 Debut, Two-Week Run Takes El Tayeb to No 8 by Howard Harding 1 September 2014
- A remarkable 14-day run in which Nour El Tayeb reached two WSA World
Series finals from the position of 16th seed has seen the 21-year-old
Egyptian leap a mighty 17 places to No8 in the latest September Women's
World Squash Rankings published today by the Women's Squash Association
(WSA).
After progressing no
further than the second round in all World Series appearances over the
previous three years, El Tayeb swept through last month's CIMB
Malaysian Open field in Kuala Lumpur - despatching the second, eighth
and tenth seeds before falling to third-seeded compatriot Raneem El
Welily in the final.
Days later in Hong
Kong, the former world junior champion again ousted England's world
champion Laura Massaro, and also the event's fourth and fifth seeds,
before reaching the Cathay Pacific Sun Hung Kai Financial Hong Kong
Open final for the first time. Here it was defending champion Nicol
David that proved to be one hurdle too many to overcome.
David, who claimed a
remarkable tenth successive title in Hong Kong - and a 75th WSA World
Tour trophy at the same time - extends her lead at the top of the
September rankings.
Massaro holds onto
second place, whilst El Welily reduces the gap in third place, and New
Zealander Joelle King - who is currently out-of-action while recovering
from an Achilles rupture - remains at No4.
US number one Amanda
Sobhy also has much to celebrate after jumping five places to make her
debut in the world top 10 at 10. Taking full advantage of the summer
break from her studies, the 21-year-old Harvard University student
exceeded her seedings in the Malaysian and Hong Kong Opens to make the
semi-finals in both. The young left-hander boasts an impressive record
in WSA Tour finals, with 12 titles out of 13 appearances!
September top 20 (inc. points average): 1 [1] Nicol David MAS 3,666 2 [2] Laura Massaro ENG 2,310 3 [3] Raneem El Welily EGY 2,030 4 [4] Joelle King NZL 1,171 5 [5] Camille Serme FRA 1,091 6 [6] Alison Waters ENG 1,026 7 [7] Low Wee Wern MAS 970 8 [25] Nour El Tayeb EGY 944 9 [8] Nour El Sherbini EGY 906 10 [15] Amanda Sobhy USA 806 11 [9] Annie Au HKG 795 12 [10] Dipika Pallikal IND 750 13 [11] Madeline Perry IRL 691 14 [12] Omneya Abdel Kawy EGY 647 15 [14] Rachael Grinham AUS 619 16 [13] Jenny Duncalf ENG 591 17 [17] Sarah-Jane Perry ENG 570 18 [16] Kasey Brown AUS 509 19 [18] Sarah Kippax ENG 465 20 [20] Emma Beddoes ENG 463
