Rodriguez And Rösner Rise In June Men's World Rankings by Nathan Clarke June 1, 2015
- Colombian Miguel Angel Rodriguez has moved up one place in the June
PSA World Rankings to occupy the World No.4 berth and become the first
South American squash player of all-time, and the first player from
either American continent since the legendary Jonathan Power, to rank
amongst the sport's illustrious top four.
The high-flying crowd-favourite has enjoyed a meteoric rise through the
PSA World Rankings in 2015, first breaking into the top ten in January
before rising to No.6 courtesy of a run of career-best finishes at some
of the sport's most prestigious tournaments, including collecting the
Motor City Open title.
After reaching the semi-finals of both the Grasshopper Cup and Allam
British Open inside the last two months, Rodriguez now moves ahead of
current World Champion Ramy Ashour to occupy the World No.4 spot behind
the dominate trio of Mohamed Elshorbagy, Nick Matthew and Gregory
Gaultier.
"It's been a great start to the year for me, achieving some important
victories and results in World Series events especially," said
Rodriguez.
"I believe I have been very consistent, and have persevered, to get to
where I am and I have been a lot more disciplined in my game without
losing my style.
"The work done off court now is more specific in terms of quality over
quantity and I've kept my desire to achieve better results with a
positive attitude. I think if I had not believed that I could have been
top ten then I would never have achieved it so I believe that anything
is possible now and I will continue to try and perform at my best.
"My aim now is to maintain my rhythm in competition play so that I can
improve on my results from 2014 and hopefully reach my first World
Series final."
Just two places below Rodriguez in the rankings is German Simon Rösner,
the powerful man from Paderborn who continues his own surge through the
rankings to a career-best of No.6 - a third career-best ranking inside
four months - while Omar Mosaad also climbs two places to a new career
high of World No.7.
