Kiwi King Soars Back Into Women's World’s Top 20 by Nathan Clarke November 1, 2015 - New
Zealand’s Joelle King has rocketed up 15 positions in the November PSA
Women’s World Rankings to occupy the World No.13 berth and move back
inside the world’s top twenty players for the first time since January
2015.
The 27-year-old former World No.4 missed almost a year of competitive
PSA World Tour action between 2014 and 2015 after suffering a serious
Achilles injury and found herself as low as No.57 in recent months but
after making a successful comeback this summer she has continued to go
from strength-to-strength and reached the final of the Carol Weymuller
Open, PSA W50 tournament, in October.
King is one of five big risers within the world’s top twenty with
Indian pairing Joshana Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal and Egyptian duo
Nour El Tayeb and Heba El Torky also in the midst of upwards
trajectories.
Delaware Investments U.S. Open runner-up El Tayeb moves up three
positions to equal her career-best World No.5 standing after an
impressive run at the PSA World Series event in which she defeated
World No.1 Raneem El Welily - who maintains her grasp on the top spot
for a third month.
After suffering a shock first round defeat to Chinappa yesterday (Oct
31) at the 2015 Qatar Classic, the second PSA World Series event of the
season, El Welily could see the gap between her and the pairing of
World No.2 Nicol David and World No.3 Laura Massaro narrow yet further
if they can maintain their campaigns and triumph in Doha.
Meanwhile Chinappa moves up three places to World No.17 with compatriot
Pallikal moving up five places to No.14 after her impressive run to the
quarter-finals of the U.S. Open and El Torky moves into the top twenty
for the first time in her career to hold the No.20 berth.
