WISPA World Rankings Dec 1 2001

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Fitz-Gerald World #1. Cassie Campion climbs up to #4. Nicol David continues to # 18.

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Cassie Campion Rises to World No 4.

#1 Sarah Fitz-Gerald (right) against her often-time foe, # 4, Cassie Campion (left)

A year after undergoing surgery on her back, England's Cassie Campion has jumped back into the world top four in the new December Women's World Rankings, announced today (30th November) by the Women's International Squash Players' Association (WISPA).

Australia's four-times world champion Sarah Fitz-Gerald tops the list, ahead of New Zealanders Leilani Joyce at No2 and Carol Owens, the former Australian, at No3. "2001 has been a great year for me with the highlight winning the World Championship in my home Melbourne," said #1 Fitz-Gerald, who was recently named SquashTalk's November '01 Player of the Month.

Cassie Campion, from Norfolk, who will be 29 later this month, hit the headlines in October 1999 when she won the World Open title in the USA - two months later becoming the first world No1 of the new millennium.

Nicol David

Five months after the operation on her back, Cassie returned to the WISPA World Tour with a vengeance, comfortably winning the Milo Open in Malaysia in April. Since then she has reached the quarter-finals of the British Open and World Open, was runner-up in the San Francisco Challenge and Heliopolis and Las Vegas Opens, then last week clinched the Monte Carlo Classic title in Monaco without dropping a game.

"Winning the Monte Carlo Classic was a great boost for me and I'm thrilled to reach a World ranking of four and end a difficult year in such a positive way," Campion said.

Rebecca Macree is another English player celebrating a ranking high this month. More than six years after reaching a then career-high No11 in September 1995, the profoundly deaf 30-year-old from Walthamstow in London makes her maiden appearance in the top ten at No10. Three other players marking career-best rankings are Australia's Natalie Grinham who rises to 12; New Zealand's Shelley Kitchen at 16; and Malaysia's 18-year-old double world junior champion Nicol David at 18.

1 [1] Sarah Fitz-Gerald AUS
2 [2] Leilani Joyce NZL
3 [3] Carol Owens NZL
4 [7] Cassie Campion ENG
5 [6] Fiona Geaves ENG
6 [5] Linda Charman-Smith ENG
7 [4] Stephanie Brind ENG
8 [9] Rachael Grinham AUS
9 [8] Suzanne Horner ENG
10 [11] Rebecca Macree ENG
11 [13] Vanessa Atkinson NED
12 [14] Natalie Grinham AUS
13 [12] Tania Bailey ENG
14 [10] Natalie Pohrer ENG
15 [15] Vicky Botwright ENG
16 [18] Shelley Kitchen NZL
17 [16] Pamela Nimmo SCO
18 [20] Nicol David MAS
19 [17] Jenny Tranfield ENG
20 [19] Ellen Petersen DEN

... and North Americans in the top 70:

29 [29] Latasha Khan USA
34 [34] Shabana Khan USA
37 [38] Margo Green CAN
50 [54] Marnie Baizley CAN
69 [60] Louise Lefebvre CAN

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