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17-Nov-08:
Darwish Heads Dunlop
Super Series Rankings
After winning his first PSA
Super Series squash title at
the Qatar Classic in
Doha last month, Egypt's Karim
Darwish heads the 2008 Dunlop
Super Series Rankings for
the first time.
 But,
with only two events in the elite PSA Tour category remaining this year,
the race is on for players to make the top eight in order to qualify for
the 2009 ATCO Super
Series Finals at The
Queen's Club in London.
The penultimate Super
Series event of the year, the Cathay
Pacific Hong Kong Open, gets underway this week - with Egypt's world
number one Amr Shabana seeded
to win the Platinum title for the third successive time.
Darwish is enjoying the
best form of his career. After
finishing as runner-up to compatriot Ramy
Ashour in the final of
the Hi-Tec World Open in
England last month, the 27-year-old from Cairo overtook Ashour in the
latest Super Series rankings after winning the Platinum Super Series
title in Doha for the first time.
Ashour is in second
place in the new list. The
21-year-old from Cairo is the only winner of two Super Series events in
2008 after securing the first title, the Bear
Stearns Tournament of Champions in
New York, then the Hi-Tec
World Open crown for the
first time in Manchester.
Shabana completes an
all-Egyptian top three. The 2008 Super Series Finals runner-up claimed
his only Super Series trophy this year at the Kuwait Open.
England's James
Willstrop drops to fourth
place in the latest rankings. The 25-year-old from Leeds won the
Davenport Professional Championship in
the USA in March and was runner-up in the Dunlop
British Open in Liverpool
in May.
David Palmer, the
Australian who won his fourth British Open title this year, is in fifth
place - and will be looking to qualify for the Super Series Finals for
the seventh time since 2001.
Defending Super Series
Finals champion Gregory
Gaultier is in sixth
position. The 25-year-old world number three from France, runner-up in
the Davenport Pro Championship in Virginia, has reached the final of the
Super Series Finals in the two years (2007 & 2008) in which he has
qualified.
The top eight players in
the list after the final Super Series event of the year will qualify for
next year's ATCO Super
Series Finals - the
flagship PSA event which produces the annual Super Series Finals
champion.
The 2008 Super Series events to date include the Bear
Stearns Tournament of Champions in
New York;Davenport Professional Championship in
Virginia, USA; Kuwait Open; Dunlop
British Open in
Liverpool; Petrosport
International Championship in
Cairo; Hi-Tec World Open in
Manchester, England; and Qatar
Classic in Doha.
The remaining Super Series events are:
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Dunlop PSA Super Series Rankings (after
the first 7 events of 2008):
1 (4) Karim Darwish (EGY) 6931
2 (1) Ramy Ashour (EGY)
6725
3 (3) Amr Shabana (EGY)
5868
4 (1) James Willstrop (ENG) 4206
5 (7) David Palmer (AUS)
3918
6 (6) Gregory Gaultier (FRA) 3643
7 (5) Wael El Hindi (EGY)
3512
8 (8) Thierry Lincou (FRA)
2781
9 (11) Peter Barker (ENG)
2068
10 (12) Adrian Grant (ENG) 1981
11 (9) Azlan Iskandar (MAS) 1806
12 (10) Olli Tuominen (FIN) 1650
13 (-) Nick Matthew (ENG) 1512
14 (-) LJ Anjema (NED)
1500
15 (12) Ong Beng Hee (MAS) 1375
16 (15) Tarek Momen (EGY) 1362
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07-Aug-08:
Ashour & Willstrop Head
2008 Super Series Standings
A first round win in the inaugural Petrosport International in Cairo was
enough to take Egypt's Ramy Ashour to the top of the latest PSA
Super Series standings - a position he shares with England's James
Willstrop.
Sadly, the 20-year-old from Cairo was forced to withdraw from the
$140,000 PSA Super Series Platinum event - the fifth Super Series
tournament of the year - before the next round, suffering with a knee
injury.
Willstrop, winner of the Davenport Virginia Pro Championship in March,
maintains his top position in the list despite choosing not to play the
new Petrosport Championship.
 But
Wael El Hindi, who beat Karim Darwish in a dream
all-Egyptian final to win his maiden Super Series trophy, leaps seven
positions to fifth place in the list - while Darwish, who was also
celebrating his first Super Series final appearance, takes fourth place
behind beaten semi-finalist and fellow countryman Amr Shabana.
Malaysia's Azlan Iskandar, also a semi-finalist in Cairo, moves
up to just outside the top eight - at nine.
Another Egyptian making a well-deserved appearance in the list for the
first time is Tarek Momen. A qualifier in his hometown event, the
20-year-old upset world No2 Gregory Gaultier, then 14th seed
Borja Golan before bowing out to Iskandar in the quarter-finals. Momen
makes his standings debut at 15.
The top eight players in the list after the final Super Series event of
the year will qualify for next year's ATCO Super Series Finals - the
flagship PSA event which produces the annual Super Series Finals
champion.
Events to come: World Open, Qatar Classic, Hong Kong Open, Abu
Dhabi Open, Saudi International.
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PSA Super Series Standings
(after the first five events of 2008):
1= (2) Ramy Ashour (EGY)
3568
1= (1) James Willstrop (ENG) 3568
3 (4) Amr Shabana (EGY)
3381
4 (7) Karim Darwish (EGY)
3018
5 (12) Wael El Hindi (EGY)
2981
6 (3) Gregory Gaultier (FRA) 2737
7 (5) David Palmer (AUS)
2337
8 (6) Thierry Lincou (FRA)
1718
9 (11) Azlan Iskandar (MAS) 1693
10 (9) Olli Tuominen (FIN)
1225
11 (15) Peter Barker (ENG) 1162
12= (8) John White (SCO)
1031
12= (13) Ong Beng Hee (MAS) 1031
12= (-) Adrian Grant (ENG) 1031
15 (-) Tarek Momen (EGY)
937
16 (10) Lee Beachill (ENG)
906
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2007
Finalists and Qualifying Events |
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How they got here:
Super Series
Tournaments 2007:
Pace Canadian Classic
Infor Windy City Open
Bear Stearns Tournament of Champions
Sheihka Al Saad Kuwait Open
Qatar Classic (06)
Dunlop British Open
US Open
Saudi International
Qatar Classic (07)
Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Open
Endurance Bermuda World Open
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2007 Super Series Points:
1.
14,806
2.
9,362
3.
8,268
4.
8,012
5.
6,650
6.
5,125
7.
4,606
8.
4,337
9.
4,162
10.
3,343
11.
2,818
12. Peter Barker
2,787
13. Olli Tuominen
2,712
14. John White
2,700
15. Stewart Boswell
2,631
16. Adrian Grant
2,437 |
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