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Peter Nicol #1 for 21st month, Parke marks 15th year in top 20, top 5 unchanged

Sept 1 2003 by Ron Beck © 2003
match sequence © 2003 Debra Tessier

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Despite claiming his second successive PSA Tour victory in the inaugural Prince English Open earlier this month, Scotland's John White's cumulative performance over the past 12 months was insufficient to dislodge either England's Peter Nicol from the No1 position or Australia's David Palmer from #2 in the new September Dunlop PSA Men's World Rankings, announced August 29th by the Professional Squash Association (PSA).

World No3 White has narrowed the gap, however, behind world No2 David Palmer, who reached the semi-finals in Sheffield in his first PSA Tour event since appendix surgery in March. Meanwhile Nicol, who launched the English Open as his first event as a promoter, then crashed out at the quarter-final stage, extends his unbroken reign at the top of the rankings to 21 months.

Canada's Jonathon Power, runner-up to White, remains at No4, ahead of Frenchman Thierry Lincou at five and Australia's Stewart Boswell at six. Anthony Ricketts, whose Sheffield victory over Peter Nicol was his first in seven meetings over the past year, strengthens his hold on the No7 position. Power could be poised to make strong progress in September at the upcoming US Open, at which he has often performed well.

Malaysia's Ong Beng Hee, also an English Open quarter-finalist, moves up one place to No8.

Success last week in the CAS International in Pakistan has taken France's Gregory Gaultier to a career-high 13 in the new list. Gaultier, at 20 the youngest player in the world top twenty, already boasts six PSA Tour titles from nine final appearances.

Despite falling three places to 18 in the new rankings, England's Simon Parke reaches a notable milestone this month. The 31-year-old Yorkshireman from Nottingham, who has overcome both testicular cancer and ankle surgery to reclaim his world top twenty status, celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of his first appearance in the PSA rankings in September 1988 - more than two years before any other player in the current top twenty!

1 [1] Peter Nicol ENG
2 [2] David Palmer AUS
3 [3] John White SCO
4 [4] Jonathon Power CAN
5 [5] Thierry Lincou FRA
6 [6] Stewart Boswell AUS
7 [7] Anthony Ricketts AUS
8 [9] Ong Beng Hee MAS
9 [8] Karim Darwish EGY
10 [10] Lee Beachill ENG
11 [11] Joseph Kneipp AUS
12 [12] Amr Shabana EGY
13 [17] Gregory Gaultier FRA
14 [13] Martin Heath SCO
15 [18] Mansoor Zaman PAK
16 [14] Mark Chaloner ENG
17 [16] Alex Gough WAL
18 [15] Simon Parke ENG
19 [19] Graham Ryding CAN
20 [20] Paul Price AUS

Other Players from the Americas in the top 100 (August 1 2003):

30 (32) Shahier Razik CAN
46 (44) Viktor Berg CAN
84 (102) Sabir Butt CAN
88 (84) Ian Power CAN
89 (104) Shawn DeLierre CAN
90 (81) Eric Galvez MEX
98 (90) Matthew Giuffre CAN

and the top American:
109 (107) Beau River USA

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