List of PSA women's number 1 ranked players

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

The Official Women's Squash World Ranking are the Professional Squash Association's (PSA) merit-based method for determining the world rankings in women'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 WISPA, the WSA and the PSA has used a computerized system for determining the rankings since April 1984.

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

Number 1 ranked Women's squash 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 Women's Ranking record

Nicol David has spent a total of 112 months and 109 consecutive months at the top of the women's world rankings, the most of any player.

No.	Country	Name	Start date	End date	Months	Accumulated total
1	AUS	Vicki Cardwell	000000001983-04-01-0000April 1983	000000001984-03-01-0000March 1984	12	12
2	NZL	Susan Devoy	000000001984-04-01-0000April 1984	000000001988-02-01-0000February 1988	47	47
3	ENG	Lisa Opie	000000001988-03-01-0000March 1988	000000001988-04-01-0000April 1988	2	2
	NZL	Susan Devoy (2)	000000001988-05-01-0000May 1988	000000001993-02-01-0000February 1993	58	105
4	AUS	Michelle Martin	000000001993-03-01-0000March 1993	000000001996-10-01-0000October 1996	44	44
5	AUS	Sarah Fitz-Gerald	000000001996-11-01-0000November 1996	000000001998-10-01-0000October 1998	24	24
	AUS	Michelle Martin (2)	000000001998-11-01-0000November 1998	000000001999-12-01-0000December 1999	14	58
6	ENG	Cassie Jackman	000000002000-01-01-0000January 2000	000000002000-10-01-0000October 2000	10	10
7	NZL	Leilani Rorani	000000002000-11-01-0000November 2000	000000002001-09-01-0000September 2001	11	11
	AUS	Sarah Fitz-Gerald (2)	000000002001-10-01-0000October 2001	000000002002-10-01-0000October 2002	13	37
8	NZL	Carol Owens	000000002002-11-01-0000November 2002	000000002002-11-01-0000November 2002	1	1
	AUS	Sarah Fitz-Gerald (3)	000000002002-12-01-0000December 2002	000000002003-02-01-0000February 2003	3	40
	NZL	Carol Owens (2)	000000002003-03-01-0000March 2003	000000002003-05-01-0000May 2003	3	4
9	USA	Natalie Grainger	000000002003-06-01-0000June 2003	000000002003-06-01-0000June 2003	1	1
	NZL	Carol Owens (3)	000000002003-07-01-0000July 2003	000000002004-01-01-0000January 2004	7	11
	ENG	Cassie Jackman (2)	000000002004-02-01-0000February 2004	000000002004-07-01-0000July 2004	6	16
10	AUS	Rachael Grinham	000000002004-08-01-0000August 2004	000000002005-11-01-0000November 2005	16	16
11	NED	Vanessa Atkinson	000000002005-12-01-0000December 2005	000000002005-12-01-0000December 2005	1	1
12	MAS	Nicol David	000000002006-01-01-0000January 2006	000000002006-03-01-0000March 2006	3	3
	NED	Vanessa Atkinson (2)	000000002006-04-01-0000April 2006	000000002006-07-01-0000July 2006	4	5
	MAS	Nicol David (2)	000000002006-08-01-0000August 2006	000000002015-08-01-0000August 2015	109 ^↑	112 ^↑
13	EGY	Raneem El Weleily	000000002015-09-01-0000September 2015	000000002015-12-01-0000December 2015	4	4
14	ENG	Laura Massaro	000000002016-01-01-0000January 2016	000000002016-04-01-0000April 2016	4	4
15	EGY	Nour El Sherbini	000000002016-05-01-0000May 2016	Present	1	1

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.	Nicol David	112
2.	Susan Devoy	105
3.	Michelle Martin	58
4	Sarah Fitz-Gerald	40
5	Rachael Grinham	16
=	Cassie Jackman	16
7.	Vicki Cardwell	12
8	Leilani Rorani	11
=	Carol Owens	11
10.	Vanessa Atkinson	5
11.	Raneem El Weleily	4
=	Laura Massaro	4
13.	Lisa Opie	2
14.	Nour El Sherbini	1
=	Natalie Grainger	1

Rank	Player	Consecutive
1.	Nicol David	109 (9 years & 1 month)
2.	Susan Devoy	58 (4 years & 10 months)
3.	Michelle Martin	44 (3 years & 8 months)
4.	Sarah Fitz-Gerald	24 (2 years)
5.	Rachael Grinham	16 (1 year & 4 months)
6.	Vicki Cardwell	12 (1 year)
7.	Leilani Rorani	11
8.	Cassie Jackman	10
9.	Carol Owens	7
10.	Vanessa Atkinson	4
=	Raneem El Weleily	4
=	Laura Massaro	4
13.	Lisa Opie	2
14.	Nour El Sherbini	1
=	Natalie Grainger	1

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.	New Zealand	3	128	Susan Devoy, Leilani Rorani, Carol Owens
2.	Australia	3	114	Michelle Martin, Sarah Fitz-Gerald, Rachael Grinham
3.	Malaysia	1	112	Nicol David
4.	England	3	22	Cassie Jackman, Lisa Opie, Laura Massaro
5.	Netherlands	1	5	Vanessa Atkinson
=	Egypt	2	5	Raneem El Weleily, Nour El Sherbini
7.	United States	1	1	Natalie Grainger

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 Championship final	Number of finals
Lisa Opie	March, 1988	2	1985 (vs. Susan Devoy)	2
Leilani Rorani	November, 2000	11	2000 (vs. Carol Owens)	2
Natalie Grainger	June, 2003	1	2002 (vs. Sarah Fitz-Gerald)	1
Raneem El Weleily	September, 2015	4	2014 (vs. Nicol David)	1

References

↑ "PSA World Rankings". psaworldtour.com. Professional Squash Association (PSA). Retrieved August 2011.

External links

"Olympic Campaigner Nicol makes World Ranking history". September 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
Squashsite: Nicol overtakes Michelle

PSA Women's World No. 1 players

Vicki Cardwell (1983/1984 - 12 m) Susan Devoy (1984/1993 - 105 m) Lisa Opie (1988 - 2 m) Michelle Martin (1993/1999 - 58 m) Sarah Fitz-Gerald (1996/2003 - 40 m) Cassie Jackman (2000/2004 - 16 m) Leilani Rorani (2001 - 11 m) Carol Owens (2002/2004 - 11 m) Natalie Grainger (2003 - 1 m) Rachael Grinham (2004/2005 - 16 m) Vanessa Atkinson (2005/2006 - 5 m) Nicol David (2006/2015 - 112 m) Raneem El Weleily (2015 - 4 m) Laura Massaro (2016 - 4 m) Nour El Sherbini (2016 - 1 m)

WISPA-WSA-PSA Rankings incepted on April, 1983 (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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