Forty-one meetings, twenty-seven finals and still going:
the head-to-heads that have defined the PSA and WSA tours since 2000.
Category: Squash Stats
Squash: A Game of Thrones
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.
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.
How Long Is a Squash Match?
The typical men’s pro match lasts 42 minutes and the typical women’s match 31. A 3-0 takes about half as long as a 3-2. Matches get longer round by round, and the closer two players are in the rankings, the longer they play. We look at 67,151 timed matches since 2005: the scores, the rule changes, the two tours, the longest matches ever recorded, the players in the longest matches, and what best of three changes. Results to 30 October 2026.
Life in the World Top 10 Since 2000
Since January 2000, fifty-seven men and fifty-one women have made the world top 10, and only eighteen of the men and fourteen of the women went on to be No.1. Mohamed ElShorbagy stayed in it the longest of the men, 15.4 years, and Nicol David the longest of the women, 14.8. Half the men who got there stayed 2.8 years or more, half the women 4.1. Egypt has had the most men in the top 10, England the most women. We follow every stay player by player, the countries, the ages, and the odds of climbing from any rank to No.1. Results to 26 October 2026.
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.