By SQUASH MAD correspondent
After claiming his fourth career title by winning the VII Torneo Internacional PSA Sporta in Guatemala lat month, Egyptian Marwan Elshorbagy has climbed to a career-high No.17 in the July PSA World Tour Rankings.
The 20-year-old moves up three places from 20th to overtake Australian Cameron Pilley, Frenchman Mathieu Castagnet and fellow Egyptian Karim Abdel Gawad in the process.
Elshorbagy, from Alexandria, is the only player inside the PSA Top 20 to move up the rankings in July.Â
South African Christo Potgieter rises a remarkable 98 places, climbing from 275 to his highest ever ranking of 177 just two weeks after winning his first ever PSA World Tour title at the Maggie Beer South Australian Open.
PSA World Rankings – Top 20, July 2014:
RANK NAME NATION POINTS UP/DOWN
1 Gregory Gaultier FRA 1440.500 =
2 Nick Matthew ENG 1368.500 =
3 Mohamed Elshorbagy EGY 1131.000 =
4 Ramy Ashour EGY 821.500 =
5 Amr Shabana EGY 758.500 =
6 James Willstrop ENG 628.000 =
7 Borja Golan ESP 615.500 =
8 Peter Barker ENG 546.500 =
9 Karim Darwish EGY 456.500 =
10 Daryl Selby ENG 451.000 =
11 Simon Rösner GER 415.000 =
12 Tarek Momen EGY 411.000 =
13 Omar Mosaad EGY 409.545 =
14 Miguel Angel Rodriguez COL 358.500 =
15 Laurens Jan Anjema NED 314.500 =
16 Saurav Ghosal IND 307.500 =
17 Marwan Elshorbagy EGY 296.500 ↑3
18 Karim Abdel Gawad FRA 285.500 ↓1
19 Mathieu Castagnet AUS 284.500 ↓1
20 Cameron Pilley EGY 276.000 ↓1
For more information about the PSA World Tour, visit www.psaworldtour.com
Picture by JORDAN MANSFIELD