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Egypt's Ramy Ashour retains his world number one ranking, according to the new February Dunlop PSA Men's World Squash Rankings published today (Tuesday) by the Professional Squash Association.
 
Two successive PSA Super Series title successes at the end of last year took the 22-year-old from Cairo to the top of the world list for the first time in January.
 
And, despite losing in the final of the JP Morgan Tournament of Champions in New York last month, Ashour has extended his lead over second-placed Nick Matthew, the Englishman who finished as runner-up to the Egyptian in December's PSA Masters in India and Saudi International in Saudi Arabia.
 
Ashour is joined in the top four by fellow countrymen Amr Shabana and Karim Darwish – the former holding onto third place and the latter rising to No4 after a semi-final berth in New York.
 
But James Willstrop – the Englishman who beat Darwish, Shabana and Ashour en-route to winning the Tournament of Champions, the first 2010 PSA Super Series event - rises to No6 in the new list, leapfrogging compatriot Peter Barker.
 
Dutchman Laurens Jan Anjema moves up one place to a career-high-equalling No13, despite yet to get his 2010 PSA Tour campaign underway.
 
February top 20 (inc. points average):
 
1          [1]          Ramy Ashour                       EGY        1200
2          [2]          Nick Matthew                     ENG       1016
3          [3]          Amr Shabana                      EGY        951
4          [5]          Karim Darwish                    EGY        703
5          [4]          Gregory Gaultier                  FRA        648
6          [7]          James Willstrop                  ENG       643
7          [6]          Peter Barker                        ENG       588
8          [8]          David Palmer                      AUS        502
9          [9]          Thierry Lincou                      FRA        454
10       [10]       Adrian Grant                        ENG       391
11       [11]       Wael El Hindi                       EGY        361
12       [12]       Alister Walker                     ENG       329
13       [14]       Laurens Jan Anjema          NED       316
14       [15]       Mohamed El Shorbagy      EGY        309
15       [13]       Daryl Selby                           ENG       308
16       [16]       Stewart Boswell                 AUS        287
17       [18]       Cameron Pilley                   AUS        276
18       [19]       Aamir Atlas Khan               PAK        250
19       [20]       Ong Beng Hee                     MAS       248
20       [17]       Mohd Azlan Iskandar        MAS       247
 
For full list – see www.psa-squash.com