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Cardiff Wales, September 1 2002 by
Howard Harding © 2001
Beachill, Kneipp, El Borolossy, Casteleyn Make Gains
England's world champion Peter Nicol celebrates his 40th month as the world's No1 squash player in the new September Dunlop PSA Men's World Rankings, announced today (2 September) by the Professional Squash Association (PSA).
Despite not including yesterday's (1 September) revenge win over Canada's world No2 Jonathon Power in the final of the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Open, the new ranking list sees Nicol extending his unbroken run at the top to nine months since January - and his total world No1 reign now covering 40 months since he first deposed Pakistan's legendary Jansher Khan in February 1998.
Australia's David Palmer holds onto the third place, while compatriot Stewart Boswell moves back up to four. A third Australian Anthony Ricketts, 23, from Brisbane, makes his top ten debut in the September list at 10.
Egypt's Omar Elborolossy (14) and Australia's Joseph Kneipp (13) return to previous career-best rankings, while Belgium's Stefan Casteleyn makes a welcome return to the top twenty (at 17) for the first time since January 2000 when he slumped to 23 from a career-high world No7 the previous month. Two players celebrate career-high positions just outside the top twenty: Frenchman Renan Lavigne, winner of the Colombian Open for the second successive year in August, rises four places to No22; while South Africa's Rodney Durbach, who became the Brazil Open champion last month, leaps 11 places to a best-ever world No23.
1 [1] Peter Nicol ENG
2 [2] Jonathon Power CAN
3 [3] David Palmer AUS
4 [5] Stewart Boswell AUS
5 [6] John White SCO
6 [4] Thierry Lincou FRA
7 [8] Ong Beng Hee MAS
8 [10] Lee Beachill ENG
9 [7] Mark Chaloner ENG
10 [11] Anthony Ricketts AUS
11 [9] Martin Heath SCO
12 [12] Chris Walker ENG
13 [18] Joseph Kneipp AUS
14 [20] Omar Elborolossy EGY
15 [15] Amr Shabana EGY
16 [14] David Evans WAL
17 [24] Stefan Casteleyn BEL
18 [19] Paul Price AUS
19 [13] Alex Gough WAL
20 [16] Olli Tuominen FIN
Other Players from the Americas in the top 100 (Sept 1 2002):
24 Graham Ryding CAN
39 Shahier Razik CAN
52 Viktor Berg CAN
75 Yasser El Halaby EGY/Princeton Univ
84 Eric Galvez MEX
86 Ian Power CAN
96 Dave McNeely USA
