While Egypt's Karim Darwish extends his reign to six months at the top of the Dunlop PSA Men's World Squash Rankings, according to the new June list published today (Tuesday) by the Professional Squash Association, fellow countryman Ramy Ashour moves up to third place behind Frenchman Gregory Gaultier.
Ashour, the 21-year-old World Open champion from Cairo, has already claimed two PSA World Tour titles this year – following his victory in the Davenport North American Open in February by taking the Hurghada International trophy on home soil in March. 

Ashour leapfrogs compatriot and former world number one Amr Shabana, who slips to No4 - the three-time world champion's lowest position for three and a half years.

Nick Matthew cements his status as the top-ranked Englishman by moving up to a career-high-equalling fifth place.  The 28-year-old from Sheffield has made rapid strides up the world rankings since returning to Tour action last September after a nine-month layoff following shoulder surgery.  Matthew reached the finals in his first three PSA events of the year, taking the title in the Case Swedish Open in February.

His England team-mate Adrian Grant makes his long-awaited top ten debut in the new list.  Runner-up in the Motor City Open and KL Open early in the year, Grant went on to win the Indian Challenger No2 at the Calcutta Racket Club to bring his career PSA Tour title haul to 16, thus making the Yorkshire-based Londoner the current Englishman with the most Tour titles.

And Spaniard Borja Golan is also celebrating a best-ever ranking in the June list.  The 26-year-old from Santiago won his 19th Tour title at the Motor City Open in Detroit – and rises one place to No11 to become Spain's joint highest ever world-ranked player with Austin Adarraga, who reached 11 in May 1993!

1    [1]    Karim Darwish    EGY    1079
2    [2]    Gregory Gaultier    FRA    873
3    [4]    Ramy Ashour    EGY    741
4    [3]    Amr Shabana    EGY    735
5    [6]    Nick Matthew    ENG    667
6    [5]    David Palmer    AUS    576
7    [7]    Peter Barker    ENG    487
8    [8]    Thierry Lincou    FRA    433
9    [10]    Wael El Hindi    EGY    431
10    [11]    Adrian Grant    ENG    417
11    [12]    Borja Golan    ESP    385
12    [9]    James Willstrop    ENG    374
13    [13]    Mohd Azlan Iskandar    MAS    314
14    [14]    Ong Beng Hee    MAS    296
15    [15]    Aamir Atlas Khan    PAK    287
16    [16]    Farhan Mehboob    PAK    276
17    [17]    Alister Walker    ENG    274
18    [19]    Laurens Jan Anjema    NED    266
19    [18]    Mohamed El Shorbagy    EGY    260
20    [20]    Stewart Boswell    AUS    240

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