After both claimed major PSA World Tour titles last month, Egypt's Ramy Ashour and Englishman Nick Matthew hold onto the top two positions in the April Dunlop PSA Men's World Squash Rankings, published today by the Professional Squash Association.

Ashour moves into his fourth month as world number one after winning the 5-star CIMB KL Open in Malaysia in March.  Later in the month, in London, Matthew triumphed in the ISS Canary Wharf Classic – also a 5-star event – and has further closed the gap behind his Egyptian rival, in second place.

Egypt's former world number one Amr Shabana holds onto third place in the list while Karim Darwish completes the trio of Egyptians in the top four by moving up to No4 – boosted by reaching the Kuala Lumpur final.

After contesting three successive Tour finals in Canada last month – losing two to Dutchman Laurens Jan Anjema but then winning the third against Hisham Mohd Ashour in Calgary – England's Daryl Selby celebrates his top ten debut and a career-high No9 ranking.  

The new ranking consolidates the 27-year-old from Essex's position as the fourth highest-ranked Englishman in the list.

But Anjema also boasts a best-ever ranking – leaping four places to a career-high No11 after winning the National Bank Financial Group International in Montreal and the Manitoba Open in Winnipeg.

And a further Englishman has reasons to be cheerful as Jonathan Kemp celebrates his first appearance in the top 20 at No20, sharing the position with Pakistan's Aamir Atlas Khan.

Left-hander Kemp made it through to the 13th Tour final of his career at last month's Chennai Open in India.

April top 20 (inc. points average):

1    [1]    Ramy Ashour    EGY    1190
2    [2]    Nick Matthew    ENG    1117
3    [3]    Amr Shabana    EGY    971
4    [5]    Karim Darwish    EGY    740
5    [4]    James Willstrop    ENG    696
6    [6]    Gregory Gaultier    FRA    655
7    [8]    Thierry Lincou    FRA    505
8    [7]    Peter Barker    ENG    490
9    [12]    Daryl Selby    ENG    412
10    [9]    David Palmer    AUS    404
11    [15]   Laurens Jan Anjema    NED 378
12    [11]    Wael El Hindi    EGY    342
13    [10]    Adrian Grant    ENG    333
14    [13]    Alister Walker    ENG    321
15    [14]    Cameron Pilley    AUS    308
16    [18]    Mohd Azlan Iskandar    MAS    289
17    [16]    Mohamed El Shorbagy    EGY    286
18    [17]    Stewart Boswell    AUS    285
19    [19]    Ong Beng Hee    MAS    272
20=    [21]    Jonathan Kemp    ENG    248
20=    [18]    Aamir Atlas Khan    PAK    248

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