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Ramy Wins PSA Masters

Ramy Ashour won the 152,500 dollar PSA Masters final yesterday in Mumbai against Nick Matthew in four games (11-6 9-11 11-9 11-9) to take top prize and the 2009 title.

Ramy now joins a select club of Perer Nicol, Jonathon Power, John White and Amr Shabana who have won this tournamet since it started in 2000.

To see the draw click here.

Unfortunately Stuart Crawford didn’t progress past the quarter finals in the  six thousand dollar prize funded PSA Fairmount Open in Philadelphia yesterday. He was beaten in the quarter final by Pakistan’s Arshad Burki (pictured right in orange – and who is the PSA World Ranked No.98) in a hard fought 3 games yesterday.

To see how the tournament finished please click here.

1 ) Karim Darwish EGY – 940 PSA points (+2)

2 ) Gregory Gaultier FRA – 919 PSA points (-1)

3 ) Amr Shabana EGY – 917 PSA points (-1)

4 ) Nick Matthew ENG – 891 PSA points

5) Ramy Ashour EGY – 800 PSA points

6 ) James Willstrop ENG – 573 PSA points

7 ) Peter Barker ENG – 526 PSA points

8 ) David Palmer AUS – 492 PSA points (-1)

9 ) Thierry Lincou FRA – 444 PSA points (-1)

10) Wael El Hindi EGY – 333 PSA points (+6)

Karim and Nicol won the prestigious title of Squash Player of the Year at The 2009 World Squash Awards hosted in London last weekend?

PSA Male Player of Year – 2005 Thierry Lincou, 2006 and 2007 Amr Shabana, 2008 James Willstrop – 2009 Karim Darwish

WISPA Female Player of Year – 2005 Vanessa Atkinson, 2006, 2007 and 2008 Nicol David – 2009 Nicol David