While Egypt's world champion Amr Shabana extends his reign at the top of the August Dunlop PSA Men's World Squash Rankings, published today (Friday) by the Professional Squash Association, Malaysian Ong Beng Hee celebrates his return to a single-figure ranking for the first time since December 2003.

Fighting back to the form which led the former world junior champion to a career-high No7 ranking in 2001, Ong Beng Hee has enjoyed great success this year - winning his first PSA Tour title for three years at the KL Open in May, then returning to his homeland last month to clinch the third Malaysian Open title of his career.

The UK-based Malaysian jumps two places in the new list to No9.

Frenchman Gregory Gaultier remains in second place, ahead of England's James Willstrop at three; Shabana's fellow countryman Ramy Ashour at No4, and Australia's recently-crowned British Open champion David Palmer at five.

Lower in the list, Dutchman Laurens Jan Anjema celebrates his highest-ever ranking of 15.  The 25-year-old from The Hague secured the seventh Tour title of his career at the Bluenose Classic in Canada in February after reaching the final of the National Capital Open in the USA earlier in the month.

Outside the top 20, Egyptian Omar Mosaad rises to a career-high 23rd place, boosted by his title success in the Scott Wealth Management Open in the USA in June.

The August rankings also mark a record-equalling 13 countries represented by players in the top 30.

    1    [1]    Amr Shabana    EGY
    2    [2]    Gregory Gaultier    FRA
    3    [3]    James Willstrop    ENG
    4    [4]    Ramy Ashour    EGY
    5    [5]    David Palmer    AUS
    6    [6]    Thierry Lincou    FRA
    7    [7]    Nick Matthew    ENG
    8    [8]    Karim Darwish    EGY
    9    [11]    Ong Beng Hee    MAS
    10    [10]    Peter Barker    ENG
    11    [12]    Lee Beachill    ENG
    12    [9]    Wael El Hindi    EGY
    13    [13]    Mohd Azlan Iskandar    MAS
    14    [15]    Adrian Grant    ENG
    15    [16]    Laurens Jan Anjema    NED
    16    [14]    Stewart Boswell    AUS
    17    [17]    Olli Tuominen    FIN
    18    [18]    Cameron Pilley    AUS
    19    [19]    John White    SCO
    20    [20]    Shahier Razik    CAN

For full list – see www.psa-squash.com