Saurav Ghosal becomes first Indian male squash player to enter top 10 of PSA rankings

Riding on his recent run of good performances, Ghosal has moved up two places to a career-high ranking of 10. Ghosal made it to the quarter-finals of the 2018-2019 PSA World Championships in Chicago

Saurav Ghosal (Source: AFP)

New Delhi: Saurav Ghosal scripted history of sorts on Monday after he became the first Indian male squash player to enter the top 10 in the latest PSA world rankings. It was a first of sorts for any Indian male squash player as before Saurav it was only two Indian women players -- Joshna Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal -- who had made it to the top-10 in the world rankings. Riding on his recent run of good performances, Ghosal has moved up two places to a career-high ranking of 10. Ghosal made it to the quarter-finals of the 2018-2019 PSA World Championships in Chicago, USA for the first time in his career. He was also a quarter-finalist at the prestigious Grasshopper Cup in Zurich, Switzerland. Egypt's world champion Ali Farag, meanwhile, maintains his position at the top of the ladder. In the women's rankings, Joshna continued to be the best-ranked Indian, moving up to the 15th position.