List of PSA men's number 1 ranked players

This article is a list of PSA men's number 1 ranked players in the Official Men's Squash World Ranking.

The PSA Ranking are the Professional Squash Association's (PSA) merit-based method for determining the world rankings in men's squash. The top-ranked player is the player who, over the previous 12 months, has garnered the most PSA ranking points. Points are awarded based on how far a player advances in tournaments and the category of those tournaments. The PSA has used a computerized system for determining the rankings since January 1975.

An updated rankings list is released at the beginning of each month.

Number 1 ranked Professional Squash Association (PSA) players

The statistics are updated only when the PSA website revises its rankings (usually every first of each month).

Key
*	Current number 1 player as of May, 2016^[1]
^↑	PSA Men's Ranking record

Jahangir Khan has spent a total of 94 months and 72 consecutive months at the top of the PSA rankings, the most of any player.

No.	Country	Name	Start date	End date	Months	Accumulated total
1	PAK	Qamar Zaman	000000001975-01-01-0000January 1975	000000001976-01-01-0000January 1976	13	13
2	AUS	Geoff Hunt	000000001976-02-01-0000February 1976	000000001980-12-01-0000December 1980	59	59
	PAK	Qamar Zaman (2)	000000001981-01-01-0000January 1981	000000001981-12-01-0000December 1981	13	25
3	PAK	Jahangir Khan	000000001982-01-01-0000January 1982	000000001987-12-01-0000December 1987	72 ^↑	72
4	PAK	Jansher Khan	000000001988-01-01-0000January 1988	000000001988-10-01-0000October 1988	10	10
	PAK	Jahangir Khan (2)	000000001988-11-01-0000November 1988	000000001989-10-01-0000October 1989	12	84
	PAK	Jansher Khan (2)	000000001989-11-01-0000November 1989	000000001990-02-01-0000February 1990	4	14
	PAK	Jahangir Khan (3)	000000001990-03-01-0000March 1990	000000001990-04-01-0000April 1990	2	86
	PAK	Jansher Khan (3)	000000001990-05-01-0000May 1990	000000001990-06-01-0000June 1990	2	16
	PAK	Jahangir Khan (4)	000000001990-07-01-0000July 1990	000000001990-10-01-0000October 1990	4	90
	PAK	Jansher Khan (4)	000000001990-11-01-0000November 1990	000000001991-12-01-0000December 1991	14	30
	PAK	Jahangir Khan (5)	000000001992-01-01-0000January 1992	000000001992-04-01-0000April 1992	4	94
	PAK	Jansher Khan (5)	000000001992-05-01-0000May 1992	000000001993-06-01-0000June 1993	14	44
5	AUS	Chris Dittmar	000000001993-07-01-0000July 1993	000000001993-08-01-0000August 1993	2	2
	PAK	Jansher Khan (7)	000000001993-09-01-0000September 1993	000000001998-01-01-0000January 1998	53	97 ^↑
6	SCO	Peter Nicol	000000001998-02-01-0000February 1998	000000001999-04-01-0000April 1999	15	15
7	CAN	Jonathon Power	000000001999-05-01-0000May 1999	000000001999-09-01-0000September 1999	5	5
	SCO	Peter Nicol (2)	000000001999-10-01-0000October 1999	000000001999-10-01-0000October 1999	1	16
	CAN	Jonathon Power (2)	000000001999-11-01-0000November 1999	000000002000-01-01-0000January 2000	3	8
	SCO	Peter Nicol (3)	000000002000-02-01-0000February 2000	000000002001-03-01-0000March 2001	14	30
	CAN	Jonathon Power (3)	000000002001-04-01-0000April 2001	000000002001-07-01-0000July 2001	4	12
	ENG	Peter Nicol (4)	000000002001-08-01-0000August 2001	000000002001-08-01-0000August 2001	1	31
8	AUS	David Palmer	000000002001-09-01-0000September 2001	000000002001-12-01-0000December 2001	4	4
	ENG	Peter Nicol (5)	000000002002-01-01-0000January 2002	000000002003-12-01-0000December 2003	24	55
9	FRA	Thierry Lincou	000000002004-01-01-0000January 2004	000000002004-02-01-0000February 2004	2	2
10	SCO	John White	000000002004-03-01-0000March 2004	000000002004-04-01-0000April 2004	2	2
	ENG	Peter Nicol (6)	000000002004-05-01-0000May 2004	000000002004-09-01-0000September 2004	5	60
11	ENG	Lee Beachill	000000002004-10-01-0000October 2004	000000002004-12-01-0000December 2004	3	3
	FRA	Thierry Lincou (2)	000000002005-01-01-0000January 2005	000000002005-12-01-0000December 2005	12	14
	CAN	Jonathon Power (4)	000000002006-01-01-0000January 2006	000000002006-01-01-0000January 2006	1	13
	AUS	David Palmer (2)	000000002006-02-01-0000February 2006	000000002006-02-01-0000February 2006	1	5
	CAN	Jonathon Power (5)	000000002006-03-01-0000March 2006	000000002006-03-01-0000March 2006	1	14
12	EGY	Amr Shabana	000000002006-04-01-0000April 2006	000000002008-12-01-0000December 2008	33	33
13	EGY	Karim Darwish	000000002009-01-01-0000January 2009	000000002009-10-01-0000October 2009	10	10
14	FRA	Grégory Gaultier	000000002009-11-01-0000November 2009	000000002009-11-01-0000November 2009	1	1
	EGY	Karim Darwish (2)	000000002009-12-01-0000December 2009	000000002009-12-01-0000December 2009	1	11
15	EGY	Ramy Ashour	000000002010-01-01-0000January 2010	000000002010-05-01-0000May 2010	5	5
16	ENG	Nick Matthew	000000002010-06-01-0000June 2010	000000002010-08-01-0000August 2010	3	3
	EGY	Ramy Ashour (2)	000000002010-09-01-0000September 2010	000000002010-12-01-0000December 2010	4	9
	ENG	Nick Matthew (2)	000000002011-01-01-0000January 2011	000000002012-01-01-0000January 2012	12	15
17	ENG	James Willstrop	000000002012-01-01-0000January 2012	000000002012-01-01-0000January 2012	1	1
	ENG	Nick Matthew (3)	000000002012-02-01-0000February 2012	000000002012-02-01-0000February 2012	1	16
	ENG	James Willstrop (2)	000000002012-03-01-0000March 2012	000000002012-12-01-0000December 2012	10	11
	EGY	Ramy Ashour (3)	000000002013-01-01-0000January 2013	000000002013-12-01-0000December 2013	12	21
	ENG	Nick Matthew (4)	000000002014-01-01-0000January 2014	000000002014-01-01-0000January 2014	1	17
	ENG FRA	Nick Matthew (=) Grégory Gaultier (2)	000000002014-02-01-0000February 2014	000000002014-02-01-0000February 2014	1	18 2
	ENG	Nick Matthew (=)	000000002014-03-01-0000March 2014	000000002014-03-01-0000March 2014	1	19
	FRA	Grégory Gaultier (3)	000000002014-04-01-0000April 2014	000000002014-10-01-0000October 2014	7	9
18	EGY	Mohamed El Shorbagy	000000002014-11-01-0000November 2014	000000002015-11-01-0000November 2015	13	13
	FRA	Grégory Gaultier (4)	000000002015-12-01-0000December 2015	000000002015-12-01-0000December 2015	1	10
	EGY	Mohamed El Shorbagy (2)	000000002016-01-01-0000January 2016	Present	5	18

Accumulated totals are bolded on each player's final streak.
As of May, 2016.

Months at number 1

Key
Bold	The current World No. 1 player
*	Active streak as of May, 2016
	Active players

Rank	Player	Total
1.	Jansher Khan	97
2.	Jahangir Khan	94
3.	/ Peter Nicol	60
4.	Geoff Hunt	59
5.	Amr Shabana	33
6.	Qamar Zaman	25
7.	Ramy Ashour	21
8.	Nick Matthew	19
9.	Mohamed El Shorbagy	18
10.	Thierry Lincou	14
=	Jonathon Power	14
12.	James Willstrop	11
=	Karim Darwish	11
14.	Grégory Gaultier	10
15.	David Palmer	5
16.	Lee Beachill	3
17.	Chris Dittmar	2
=	John White	2

Rank	Player	Consecutive
1.	Jahangir Khan	72 (6 years)
2.	Geoff Hunt	59 (4 years & 11 months)
3.	Jansher Khan	53 (4 years & 5 months)
4.	Amr Shabana	33 (2 years & 9 months)
5.	Peter Nicol	24 (2 years)
6.	Mohamed El Shorbagy	13 (1 year & 1 month)
=	Qamar Zaman	13 (1 year & 1 month)
8.	Ramy Ashour	12 (1 year)
=	Nick Matthew	12 (1 year)
=	Thierry Lincou	12 (1 year)
11.	James Willstrop	10
=	Karim Darwish	10
13.	Grégory Gaultier	7
14.	Jonathon Power	5
15.	David Palmer	4
16.	Lee Beachill	3
17.	Chris Dittmar	2
=	John White	2

As of May, 2016

Note: Active streak is in bold.

Months at no. 1 by country

	Country	No. of players	No. of months	Players
1.	Pakistan	3	216	Jansher Khan, Jahangir Khan, Qamar Zaman
2.	Egypt	4	83	Amr Shabana, Ramy Ashour, Karim Darwish, Mohamed El Shorbagy
3.	England	4	66	Peter Nicol, Nick Matthew, James Willstrop, Lee Beachill
=	Australia	3	66	Geoff Hunt, David Palmer, Chris Dittmar
5.	Scotland	2	32	Peter Nicol, John White
6.	France	2	24	Thierry Lincou, Grégory Gaultier
7.	Canada	1	14	Jonathon Power

As of May, 2016

Players who were ranked World no. 1 without having won a World Championship

Player	Date of first No. 1 position	Num. of months No. 1	First World Open final	Number of final
Qamar Zaman *	January, 1975	25	1977 (vs. Geoff Hunt)	4
Chris Dittmar	July, 1993	2	1983 (vs. Jahangir Khan)	5
John White	March, 2004	2	2002 (vs. David Palmer)	1
Lee Beachill	October, 2004	3	2004 (vs. Thierry Lincou)	1
Karim Darwish	January, 2009	11	2008 (vs. Ramy Ashour)	1
James Willstrop	January, 2012	11	2010 (vs. Nick Matthew)	1
Mohamed El Shorbagy	November, 2014	18	2012 (vs. Ramy Ashour)	2

Note:

Qamar Zaman won the British Open in 1975 (considered as the World Open on that year before its inception in 1976).

References

↑ "PSA World Rankings". psaworldtour.com. Professional Squash Association (PSA). Retrieved January 2015.

External links

PSA World Rankings

PSA Men's World No. 1 players

Qamar Zaman (1975/1981 - 25 m) Geoff Hunt (1976/1980 - 59 m) Jahangir Khan (1982/1992 - 94 m) Jansher Khan (1988/1998 - 97 m) Chris Dittmar (1993 - 2 m) / Peter Nicol (1998/2004 - 60 m) Jonathon Power (1999/2006 - 14 m) David Palmer (2001/2006 - 5 m) Thierry Lincou (2004/2005 - 14 m) John White (2004 - 2 m) Lee Beachill (2004 - 3 m) Amr Shabana (2006/2008 - 33 m) Karim Darwish (2009 - 11 m) Grégory Gaultier (2009/2015 - 10 m) Ramy Ashour (2010/2013 - 21 m) Nick Matthew (2010/2014 - 19 m) James Willstrop (2012 - 11 m) Mohamed El Shorbagy (2014/2016 - 18 m)

PSA Rankings incepted on January, 1975 (year first held/year last held – number of months (m)) Current World No. 1 in bold, as of May, 2016

Squash records and statistics

World Championships records and statistics	World Open Squash Championships WSF World Team Squash Championships

World Series records	British Open Hong Kong Open

Rankings	Men's Ranking Women's Ranking List of Men's Number 1 List of Women's Number 1

Records	Longest squash match records PSA World Tour records

Awards	PSA Awards WSA Awards

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