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PSA WORLD SQUASH RANKINGS November 2019 EGYPT: MEN RANK [PREV] NAME HWR [DATE] BIRTHPLACE RESIDENCE AGE 1 1 Ali Farag 1 Mar 2019 Cairo Cairo 27 2 2 Mohamed Elshorbagy 1 Nov 2014 Alexandria Bristol, England 28 3 3 Tarek Momen 3 Feb 2019 Cairo Cairo 31 4 4 Karim Abdel Gawad 1 May 2017 Alexandria Giza 28 8 8 Mohamed Abouelghar 7 Jun 2019 Cairo Cairo 26 10 10 Marwan Elshorbagy 3 May 2018 Alexandria Bristol, England 26 13 14 Fares Dessouky 8 Nov 2017 Alexandria Alexandria 25 15 13 Omar Mosaad 3 Jun 2016 Cairo Cairo 31 16 15 Zahed Salem 14 Mar 2019 Alexandria Alexandria 27 19 21 Mazen Hesham 13 Dec 2015 Cairo Cairo 25 23 25 Mostafa Asal 23 Nov 2019 Cairo Cairo 18 40 37 Youssef Soliman 30 Apr 2019 Cairo Bristol, England 22 43 44 Youssef Ibrahim 43 Nov 2019 Cairo Cairo 20 46 45 Karim Ali Fathi 33 Sep 2017 Cairo Cairo 26 50 53 Karim El Hammamy 47 Mar 2019 Cairo Cairo 23 51 51 Mohamed Elsherbini 51 Oct 2019 Alexandria Boston, USA 27 64 63 Mazen Gamal 51 Dec 2017 Saudi Arabia Cairo 33 69 66 Omar Abdel Meguid 25 Nov 2014 Giza Giza 31 78 74 Shehab Essam 70 Sep 2019 Oman Cairo 24 107 103 Ahmed Hosny 76 Mar 2019 Cairo Cairo 28 120 123 Moustafa El Sirty 120 Nov 2019 Cairo Cairo 18 135 137 Omar Elkattan 135 Nov 2019 Cairo Cairo 25 143 146 Shady El Sherbiny 143 Nov 2019 Cairo Cairo 20 145 161 Yehia Elnawasany 145 Nov 2019 Tanta Tanta, Elgharbya 17 164 175 Mustafa Nawar 155 Mar 2019 Alexandria California, USA 25 171 184 Khaled Labib 171 Nov 2019 Cairo Cairo 22 188 187 Tarek Shehata 168 Jun 2019 Cairo Switzerland 26 200 203 Mohamed Nabil 165 Mar 2019 Alexandria New York, USA 28 229 252 Hazem Ahmed Helmy 229 Nov 2019 Cairo Cairo 19 252 295 Marwan Tarek 179 Sep 2017 Cairo Cairo 19 261 263 Ahmed Mohamed 260 Sep 2019 Cairo Kiev, Ukraine 24 278 302 Omar El Hadidi 278 Nov 2019 Cairo Cairo 21 290 297 Ismail Hafez 285 Nov 2017 Cairo Cairo 35 298 297 Aly Abou Eleinen 297 Oct 2019 Alexandria Wayne, NJ, USA 19 305 305 Abdelrahman Abdelkhalek 263 Jan 2019 Saudi Arabia Bristol, England 19 320 339 Abdalah El Masry 320 Nov 2019 Cairo Cairo 20 321 340 Youssef Galal 321 Nov 2019 Nasr City Cairo 22 330 319 Moustafa Osman 312 Aug 2019 Alexandria Boston, USA 39 347 350 Ahmed Medan 347 Nov 2019 Tanta Cairo 27 355 361 Omar El Torkey 328 Jul 2017 Giza Cairo 18 358 419 Seif Shenawy 358 Nov 2019 Cairo Cairo 18 365 431 El Boraie 365 Nov 2019 Cairo Cairo 18 368 447 Mohamed Nasser 368 Nov 2019 Cairo Cairo 15 383 424 Omar Marei 140 Dec 2012 Alexandria Stamford, USA 27 389 337 Andrew Shoukry 48 Mar 2013 Cairo New York, USA 29 410 404 Ahmed Abualela 396 Apr 2019 Tanta Tanta 21 410 463 Ali Yacout 410 Nov 2019 Cairo Cairo 17 426 568 Karim Elbarbary 426 Nov 2019 Cairo Cairo 17 431 424 Youssef Hisham 334 Jan 2019 Giza Cairo 21 443 438 Marwan Mahmoud 338 Feb 2013 Alexandria Alexandria 24 451 453 Karim Magdy 231 Feb 2017 Cairo Cairo 21 474 494 Seif Nasser 474 Nov 2019 Cairo Cairo 18 476 606 Moustafa Bayoumy 334 Feb 2012 USA Charlottesville, USA 25 484 555 Mo Mosaad 338 Feb 2013 Cairo Cairo 34 494 489 Khalil Mohamed 489 Oct 2019 Cairo Cairo 20 500 494 Ibrahim Elkabbani 494 Oct 2019 Giza Giza 17 500 606 Mohamed Mostafa 500 Nov 2019 Cairo Cairo 16 500 539 Omar Gohary 498 Aug 2019 Cairo Cairo 17 506 499 Aly Hussein 479 Sep 2019 Cairo Cairo 19 506 541 Mohamed Saied 265 Oct 2016 Mansoura Cairo 29 525 568 Yassin Elshafei 525 Nov 2019 Cairo Cairo 18 550 541 Roger Baddour 500 Aug 2019 Alexandria Alexandria 17 560 580 Ahmed Marzouk 550 Jul 2019 Alexandria Alexandria 16 563 - Amr Arafa 563 Nov 2019 Alexandria Stamford, USA 23 563 606 Ziad Roushdy 396 Feb 2015 Alexandria Alexandria 23 568 602 Ahmed Ismail 557 Aug 2019 Cairo Cairo 16 578 568 Omar Adly 527 Aug 2019 Cairo Cairo 19 588 579 Omar El Mahdy 539 Aug 2019 Alexandria Alexandria 17 590 580 Seif Hemdan 510 Feb 2019 Alexandria Saudi Arabia 20 590 580 Seif Ramy 560 Aug 2019 Cairo Cairo 19 590 606 Ziad Salem 510 Feb 2019 Alexandria Alexandria 19 609 606 Aly Mohamed 580 Sep 2019 Cairo Cairo 19 609 606 Aly Tolba 560 Aug 2019 Alexandria Alexandria 18 609 606 Amr Ghoneim 560 Aug 2019 Cairo Cairo 21 609 606 Amr Tolba 550 Apr 2019 Cairo Munich, Germany 29 609 606 Ismail Atef 560 Aug 2019 Cairo Cairo 18 609 - Ismail Ismail 609 Nov 2019 Cairo Amsterdam, NED 18 609 - Karim Hussein 609 Nov 2019 Cairo New York, USA 23 609 606 Mahmoud Abouelleil 606 Oct 2019 Cairo Nova Scotia, Canada 20 Produced by Howard Harding on behalf of PharaohSquash Source: www.squashinfo.com 2 November 2019 .
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