Category: Report

Last week saw the British National Championships 2024, culminating in No.1 seed Georgina Kennedy winning her maiden title, while Welshman Joel Makin dethroned Mohamed ElShorbagy claiming his first win since 2021.

With the new season just around the corner, we have taken a look at the highest climbers and level increases from the England Squash Ratings across the top 1000 players in England for the 2023-24 season.

We dive into the data of the players from the dark horse of the recent WSF World Junior Squash Championships – South Korea.

The first weekend in July saw the New Zealand Squash Championships take place in Tauranga, where Joelle King made history by becoming the first athlete to win 11 New Zealand Squash Championship titles.

With Diego Elias becoming the first South American to win the CIB PSA World Championships, after downing Mostafa Asal in straight games, and Nouran Gohar claiming her first-ever CIB PSA World Championships title defeating defending champion Nour El Sherbini, but what about the rest of the players? SquashLevels has run the analysis assessing the biggest jumps in level across the tournament.

We look at the look at the highest climbers and level increases from the Squash Australia Ratings across the top 1000 players in Australia in 2023.

We look at the look at the highest climbers and level increases from the England Squash Ratings across the top 1000 players in England in 2023, taking the January 2023 England Squash Ratings and comparing to the December 2023 England Squash Ratings.

As the year comes to an end we look at the look at the highest climbers and level increases from the PSA Power Ratings on SquashLevels, identifying those to watch in 2024.

The latest Squash Australia Ratings are now live – we take a look at the highest climbers and level increases this month within the top 100 and the top 1,000 players.

The Dunlop Pontefract Gold, the first Junior Gold tournament of the new season, took place  over the weekend of 8th to 10th December at two venues – Pontefract and Chapel Allerton clubs. With 223 juniors registered to take part over multiple age categories (Mixed under 9’s plus boys and girls under 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19’s) there was a wealth of up-and-coming squash talent taking to the courts, with 638 matches played in total.

The 2023 New Zealand Open concluded on 10th December with, soon-to-be husband and wife, Paul Coll and Nele Gilis taking home the trophies. 

The TTI Milwaukee Hong Kong Squash Open 2023 finished on 3rd December with Paul Coll and Hania El Hammamy taking home the trophies. 

The England Squash Ratings for December are now live – we take a look at the highest climbers and level increases this month in our England Squash Ratings review.

The Hong Kong Football Club Open finished on 25th November with Egypt’s Aly Abou Eleinen claiming the men’s title, jumping up to #20 in the SquashLevels ratings from #32, and Malaysia’s Sivasangari Subramaniam claiming the women’s title, moving her into #12 in the SquashLevels ratings.

The VITAGEN Singapore Squash Open finished on 19th November with Ali Farag and Nele Gilis taking home the trophies. With Ali Farag defeating Peru’s Diego Elias in a close-fought 72-minute clash, taking the #1 SquashLevels rating from Elias, and Nele Gilis defeating sister Tinne Gilis in a dramatic five-game battle that lasted 82 minutes, causing her to move into the #6 SquashLevel rating position. It’s fair to say there was plenty of movement across players Levels throughout the tournament.