The trio of WISPA World Tour titles won by Shelley Kitchen already this year has finally seen the New Zealander back in the world top ten, according to the new May Women's World Squash Rankings announced today (Thursday) by the Women's International Squash Players' Association (WISPA).

It was within exactly a month in Malaysia that the 29-year-old from Auckland picked up three NSC Series trophies in Kuala Lumpur – thus boosting her career Tour title tally to 15.

In an otherwise unchanged top ten, Malaysia's Nicol David extends her reign as world number one, ahead of Natalie Grainger, from the USA, at No2; Australia's Rachael Grinham in third place, and her younger sister Natalie Grinham at four.

While the English trio of Jenny Duncalf, Alison Waters and Laura Lengthorn-Massaro retain fifth, sixth and seventh places, respectively, their England team-mate Tania Bailey – still recovering from knee surgery last year – moves up a further place to 14.

New Zealander Jaclyn Hawkes also rises to within one place of her best ever ranking.  The UK-based 26-year-old – a surprise semi-finalist in last month's Cannon Kirk Homes Irish Open after upsetting second seed Laura Lengthorn-Massaro in the quarters – moves up to 17.

Egypt's Raneem El Weleily is also rewarded for her surprise victory in last month's On The Run Heliopolis Open in Cairo by rising to a career-equalling high world No19.

    1    [1]    Nicol David    MAS
    2    [2]    Natalie Grainger    USA
    3    [3]    Rachael Grinham    AUS
    4    [4]    Natalie Grinham    NED
    5    [5]    Jenny Duncalf    ENG
    6    [6]    Alison Waters    ENG
    7    [7]    Laura Lengthorn-Massaro    ENG
    8    [8]    Omneya Abdel Kawy    EGY
    9    [9]    Madeline Perry    IRL
    10    [11]    Shelley Kitchen    NZL
    11    [10]    Isabelle Stoehr    FRA
    12    [12]    Vanessa Atkinson    NED
    13    [13]    Kasey Brown    AUS
    14    [15]    Tania Bailey    ENG
    15    [14]    Rebecca Chiu    HKG
    16    [16]    Samantha Teran    MEX
    17    [18]    Jaclyn Hawkes    NZL
    18    [17]    Annie Au    HKG
    19    [20]    Raneem El Weleily    EGY
    20    [19]    Lauren Briggs    ENG

For the complete WISPA ranking list, see www.wispa.net