Ramy Ashour

Ramy Mohamed Ashour (Arabic رامي عاشور; born September 30, 1987 in Cairo ) is an Egyptian squash players. He led several occasions the world rankings and won in 2008 and 2012 the world championship in singles.

Career

In 2004, at age 16 Ashour made ​​his debut on the professional tour in Athens, where he also won directly to the surprise of all the tournament. After two years he was placed among the top ten in the world rankings and had already decided twice the junior world championship. He was the first player ever to succeed a successful title defense at junior level. Ashour won in Manchester in 2008 with a 3-1 win against Karim Darwish, the World Championship for Men. Winning this title in both the junior and in the men's area previously succeeded only Jansher Khan. 2009 was followed by another world title with the Egyptian national team, before Ashour in January 2010 could reach his biggest goal to date: The top position in the world rankings. From January to December 2010 Ashour has held the lead, only interrupted by a short period in the summer months of June, July and August. The 2012 season was nearly perfect for Ashour: With only seven tournaments he entered in all the finals and won five of the seven finals. Only in the North American Open and the British Open he lost to James Willstrop and Nick Matthew. Among the titles won in 2012 include, inter alia, the World Cup, the Ramy Ashour after 2008 could again win the first time. He thus lost only two games in the season. In his career so far Ashour won a total of 30 titles on the PSA World Tour. In April 2013 he was able to reach the highest achieved so far points average in the world rankings with 1872 points. In read all played by him Tournaments were received within the past twelve months, a total of nine. He won eight of them, and stood once more in the final. Seven of these eight titles belonged to the category of the PSA World Series.

Ramys older brother Hisham Mohd Ashour is also squash players.

Achievements

  • World Champion: 2 title (2008, 2012)
  • World champion with the team: 2 titles (2009, 2011)
  • Won PSA Title: 32
  • 21 months world number
2012 Men's World Open Squash Championship PSA World Tour 2013 2008 Men's World Open Squash Championship 2009 Men's World Team Squash Championships 2011 Men's World Team Squash Championships Professional Squash Association Geoff Hunt Jahangir Khan Ross Norman Rodney Martin Jonathon Power Peter Nicol David Palmer (squash player) Amr Shabana
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