Fifty years of world rankings show which countries have ruled squash, how they did it, and why Egypt’s reign
looks different from the ones before it.
Category: Number #1’s
The Fastest Rise to World No.1
In late 2022 Amina Orfi was 15 and had just broken into the world’s top 125. In September 2026 she was world
No.1, at 19. It took her 46 months, the fastest climb to the top of the women’s game that we can
measure; Mostafa Asal’s 57 months from No.250 is the fastest of the men’s.
A History of the World No.1 in Squash
Twenty-three men and eighteen women have been world No.1 since the first ranking lists, in 1975 for the men and 1983 for the women. Jansher Khan (422 weeks) and Jahangir Khan (409) spent the longest at the top of the men’s game, Nicol David (487) and Susan Devoy (456) at the top of the women’s. Nicol David also holds the longest unbroken reign: 9.1 years. Egypt has had more No.1s than any other country, and its men are 66 weeks short of the record Pakistan set in the Khan era. Today Mostafa Asal and Amina Orfi hold the top spot. We follow every spell at No.1, year by year, with animated races of the weeks piling up. Results to 26 October 2026.