Egyptian
Nouran Gohar, who yesterday celebrated her 20th birthday, has moved up
two places in the latest PSA Women's World Rankings,
released today (October 1), to occupy the World No.5 spot in an
all-change Top Ten.
The hard-hitting player from Cairo, who last month fell
out of the top five for the first time in over a year, enjoyed
a purple patch of form throughout September, reaching the final of the
J.P. Morgan China Open - where she lost to compatriot Nour
El Sherbini, who remains at World No.1 for an 18th consecutive month -
before lifting her first title of the season at the Macau Open.
She
is now within 200 points of England's former World No.1 Laura Massaro,
who occupies the World No.4 berth, while Frenchwoman Camille
Serme has moved up one place to a career-high equalling World No.2 -
overtaking Raneem El Welily who falls back to No.3, her lowest ranking in six months.
Serme,
who was the only player to win two PSA World Series titles during the
2016/17 campaign, is now within 150 points of El Sherbini
ahead of the first World Series title of the 2017/18 season - the U.S.
Open - which gets underway next week.
Elsewhere
inside the top ten England's 27-year-old Sarah-Jane Perry has narrowed
the gap on eight-time World Champion Nicol David
to less that 20 points courtesy of her victory at the 2017 Oracle
NetSuite Open, where she recovered from championship ball down to defeat
David in the finale.
American
Amanda Sobhy, the Harvard-graduate who has been out injured for over
six months, falls out of the Top 10 for the first time
two years to be replaced by New Zealand's Joelle King, while her Team
USA compatriot Olivia Blatchford moves up one position to No.16.
Blatchford's
rise sees Welsh player Tesni Evans drop down two positions to sit just
above Australian Donna Urquhart while Egyptian
Salma Hany Ibrahim and Hong Kong's Joey Chan swap positions at No.19
and No.20, respectively, to complete the top 20.
PSA Women's World Rankings Top 20 - October 2017
|
RANK
|
NAME
|
NATIONALITY
|
POINTS
|
UP/Down
|
|
1
|
Nour
El Sherbini
|
EGY
|
1,383.125
|
=
|
|
2
|
Camille
Serme
|
FRA
|
1,252.500
|
↑1
|
|
3
|
Raneem
El Welily
|
EGY
|
981.875
|
↓1
|
|
4
|
Laura
Massaro
|
ENG
|
975.625
|
=
|
|
5
|
Nouran
Gohar
|
EGY
|
784.375
|
↑2
|
|
6
|
Nicol
David
|
MAS
|
737.500
|
↓1
|
|
7
|
Sarah-Jane
Perry
|
ENG
|
725.000
|
↓1
|
|
8
|
Alison
Waters
|
ENG
|
516.875
|
=
|
|
9
|
Annie
Au
|
HKG
|
435.556
|
↑1
|
|
10
|
Joelle
King
|
NZL
|
405.625
|
↑1
|
|
11
|
Amanda
Sobhy
|
USA
|
391.250
|
↓2
|
|
12
|
Emily
Whitlock
|
ENG
|
361.250
|
↑1
|
|
13
|
Joshna
Chinappa
|
IND
|
355.556
|
↓1
|
|
14
|
Nour
El Tayeb
|
EGY
|
354.375
|
=
|
|
15
|
Victoria
Lust
|
ENG
|
318.125
|
↑1
|
|
16
|
Olivia
Blatchford
|
USA
|
308.333
|
↑1
|
|
17
|
Tesni
Evans
|
WAL
|
303.889
|
↓2
|
|
18
|
Donna
Urquhart
|
AUS
|
294.444
|
=
|
|
19
|
Salma
Hany Ibrahim
|
EGY
|
251.875
|
↑1
|
|
20
|
Joey
Chan
|
HKG
|
251.250
|
↓1
|
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