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Celebrates Birthday In World Top Ten
Laurens Jan Anjema has good reason to celebrate his
28th birthday today: The Dutchman has leapt two places to a
career-high No9 in the new December world rankings.
The new rankings come on the eve of the Saudi PSA World
Open, the richest event in history which gets underway in
Saudi Arabia - where it is being held for the first time -
tomorrow (2 December).
Egypt's Ramy Ashour is top of the list, marking his
fourth successive month as world number one after
strengthening his position following title success in last
month's PSA Super Series Kuwait Open.
The 23-year-old from Cairo is ahead of second-placed
Englishman Nick Matthew and third-placed compatriot Karim
Darwish.
But it is five PSA World Tour final appearances this year,
including title successes in three, which have contributed
to Laurens Jan Anjema's top ten debut. In October, the
third-seeded Dutchman reached the final of the US Open
against expectation - and last month notched up his 25th
Tour final appearance on home soil at the Dutch Open in
Rotterdam.
France's Gregory Gaultier moves up to four in the new
list to mark his highest placing since January. The
27-year-old from Aix-en-Provence reached the semi-finals in
last month's Kuwait Open and Qatar Classic.
Egypt's 19-year-old Mohamed El Shorbagy - the
youngest player in the world top 40 - returns to a best-ever
tenth place.
|
 TOP
20 PSA
DEC 2010 |
|
Rank |
Prev |
Player |
Pts |
Ctry |
|
1 |
[1] |
Ramy Ashour |
1555 |
Egy |
| 2 |
[2] |
Nick
Matthew |
1224 |
Eng |
| 3 |
[3] |
Karim
Darwish |
983 |
Egy |
|
4é |
[6] |
Gregory
Gaultier |
718 |
Fra |
|
5ê |
[4] |
James
Willstrop |
715 |
Eng |
| 6ê |
[5] |
Amr
Shabana |
685 |
Egy |
| 7 |
[7] |
Thierry Lincou |
570 |
Fra |
| 8 |
[8] |
Peter Barker |
513 |
Eng |
| 9é |
[11] |
Laurens Jan Anjema |
406 |
Ned |
| 10é |
[12] |
Mohamed El Shorbagy |
406 |
Egy |
| 11ê |
[9] |
David Palmer |
399 |
Aus |
| 12ê |
[10] |
Wael El Hindi |
369 |
Egy |
|
13 |
[13] |
Daryl Selby |
368 |
Eng |
|
14é |
[16] |
Adrian Grant |
362 |
Eng |
| 15ê |
[14] |
Cameron Pilley |
353 |
Aus |
|
16ê |
[15] |
Azlan Iskandar |
344 |
Mas |
| 17 |
[17] |
Omar Mosaad |
332 |
Egy |
|
18 |
[18] |
Ong Beng Hee |
278 |
Mas |
|
19 |
[19] |
Stewart Boswell |
267 |
Aus |
| 20 |
[20] |
Alister Walker |
262 |
Eng |
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