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This is a list of notable top international players of the racquet sport squash.. Names are highlighted in bold if the player has officially been ranked the World No.1; has won the World Open; has been champion at the British Open (which was the effective world championship of the sport prior to the 1970s); has won a singles Gold Medal at the Commonwealth Games; or has been ranked No. 1 on the ...
The British Open had for many years been generally considered to be the sport's effective world championship, and this continued to be the case until the World Open (now called World Championship) was established. [1] [2] The women's World Championship was held once every two years until the early 1990s, when it became an annual event.
This article is a list of PSA men's number 1 ranked players in the Official Men's Squash World Ranking. The PSA Ranking are the Professional Squash Association's (PSA) merit-based method for determining the world rankings in men's squash. The top-ranked player is the player who, over the previous 12 months, has garnered the most PSA ranking points.
The ranking is to rate the performance lvee of male professional squash players. It is also a merit-based method used for determining entry and seeding in men's squash tournaments. The rankings have been produced monthly then weekly since 29 August 2022. [1] The current world number one is Ali Farag of Egypt.
In November 2016, he won the 2016 World Open Squash Championship in Cairo in Egypt against Ramy Ashour. He became the third Egyptian to win the World Championship after Amr Shabana and Ashour. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 1 in May 2017. [1] [2] In 2020, he suffered a major injury during the final of the 2020 Manchester Open.
The 2020–21 PSA Men's World Squash Championship was the 2020–21 men's edition of the World Squash Championships, which served as the individual world championship for squash players. The event took place in Chicago, United States from 14 to 22 July 2021. It was the second time that Chicago hosted the PSA World Championships after 2018–19 ...
Farag won his third World title at the 2022 PSA Men's World Squash Championship. [8] In 2023, Farag finally won his first British Open, defeating Peruvian Diego Elías in the 2023 Men's British Open Squash Championship. It was a tough and close match, with both players tiring towards the end of the third game before Farag emerged the winner.
Heather Pamela McKay (née Blundell) (born 31 July 1941) is an Australian retired squash player, who is considered by many to be the greatest female player in the history of the game. [2] She dominated the women's squash game in the 1960s and 1970s, winning 16 consecutive British Open titles from 1962 to 1977, and capturing the inaugural women ...