September Rankings: Nicol, Power, Barada, Parke, Heath unchanged at 1-2-3-4-5; Hill drops out of top 10.

1.9.00. PSA World Squash News

PALMER BECOMES TOP AUSTRALIAN IN NEW WORLD RANKINGS
David Palmer, from Lithgow in New South Wales, has become the No1 Australian in the Dunlop PSA Men's World Rankings for the first time, leaping four places to 8 in the new September list announced today (1 September) by the Professional Squash Association (PSA).

Scotland's world champion Peter Nicol, unbeaten on the PSA Tour since February, heads the list for the eighth successive month following his success in last month's Al-Ahram International in Egypt.

In an unchanged top six, Canada's Jonathon Power is at No2, Egypt's Ahmed Barada at 3, with England's Simon Parke, Scotland's Martin Heath and England's Paul Johnson at 4, 5 and 6, respectively.

David Palmer, 24, has already claimed six titles from 14 final appearances on the PSA Tour. In March he reached the semi-finals of the Irish Open in Dublin, and last month made his quarter-final debut in a Super Series event when he reached the last eight of the Al-Ahram International in Egypt.

While Palmer's compatriot Anthony Hill drops out of the top ten for the first time since March 1999, England's Del Harris, a 'veteran' of the PSA Tour since 1984, moves up to No7 - only two places below his career best No5. England's Manchester-based Nick Taylor rises to a career-high world No16. Three players register career-best rankings in the September list: Australia's John Williams rises to 28; Egypt's Kareem Darwish leaps 11 positions to 38; and Pakistan's Ajaz Azmat moves up one place to 42.

1 [1] Peter Nicol SCO 2
[2] Jonathon Power CAN 3
[3] Ahmed Barada EGY 4
[4] Simon Parke ENG 5
[5] Martin Heath SCO 6
[6] Paul Johnson ENG 7
[8] Del Harris ENG 8
[12] David Palmer AUS 9
[9] Peter Marshall ENG 10
[10] David Evans WAL 11
[7] Anthony Hill AUS 12
[13] John White SCO 13
[14] Thierry Lincou FRA 14
[16] Paul Price AUS 15
[15] Mark Chaloner ENG 16
[19] Nick Taylor ENG 17
[11] Graham Ryding CAN 18
[21] Omar Elborolossy EGY 19
[17] Alex Gough WAL 20
[18] Amjad Khan PAK

World #2 from Canada, Jonathon Power (© 2000 Squashtalk file photo, Vaughn Winchell)

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