Tarek Momen Moves Into Top 10 in Pro Men's Rankings from PSA Media September 1, 2014
- Tarek Momen, the 26-year-old Egyptian who reached the semi-final
stage of the recent PSA World Series Cathay Pacific Sun Hung Kai
Financial Hong Kong Squash Open, has broken into the top 10 for the
first time in his career to occupy the No.9 slot in the September PSA
World Tour Rankings.
Momen has occupied a
position in the top 15 since October 2012 but finally makes his
breakthrough into the prestigious top 10 at the expense of compatriot
Karim Darwish, who's disappointing first round exit in Hong Kong sees
him fall out of the top 10 for the first time since October 2007.
Momen secured his
three-position rise courtesy of an impressive run in Hong Kong which
saw him dispatch first James Willstrop, the former World No.1 who drops
one position in the September rankings to No.7 after that defeat saw
him fail to progress past the first round of a tour event for the first
time since the 2006 World Championship, before getting the better of
German national champion Simon Rösner in a thrilling 3-2 encounter in
the quarter-finals which ended the German man's own hopes to breaking
into the top 10.
Hong Kong Open
champion Mohamed Elshorbagy, the 23-year-old from Alexandria, Egypt,
maintains his No.3 ranking but has closed the gap on current top two
Gregory Gaultier, the man he beat to to the trophy, and current No.2
Nick Matthew while Egyptian stars Ramy Ashour and Amr Shabana complete
an unchanged top five.
Spain's highest ever
ranked player Borja Golan leapfrogs Willstrop to occupy the No.6
ranking while elsewhere in the top 20 there is a mass of movement with
Hong Kong's Max Lee securing the biggest leap, moving up five places to
occupy the No.20 slot and what is his highest ever ranking.
PSA World Tour Rankings - September RANK NAME NATION POINTS UP/DOWN 1 Gregory Gaultier FRA 1549.000 = 2 Nick Matthew ENG 1368.500 = 3 Mohamed Elshorbagy EGY 1336.500 = 4 Ramy Ashour EGY 821.500 = 5 Amr Shabana EGY 758.500 = 6 Borja Golan ESP 660.455 ↑1 7 James Willstrop ENG 628.000 ↓1 8 Peter Barker ENG 523.000 = 9 Tarek Momen EGY 474.545 ↑3 10 Daryl Selby ENG 468.182 = 11 Karim Darwish EGY 463.000 ↓2 12 Simon Rösner GER 447.727 ↓1 13 Miguel Angel Rodriguez COL 411.000 ↑1 14 Omar Mosaad EGY 409.545 ↓1 15 Laurens Jan Anjema NED 314.500 = 16 Saurav Ghosal IND 313.636 = 17 Marwan Elshorbagy EGY 302.727 = 18 Karim Abdel Gawad EGY 285.000 = 19 Mathieu Castagnet FRA 282.000 = 20 Max Lee HKG 270.000 ↑5
