On the heels of reaching two Women’s Squash Association (WSA) World Series semifinals in August, Amanda Sobhy earned her highest career world ranking of ten in September’s WSA world rankings.
In reaching world No. 10, Sobhy becomes the first native-born U.S. citizen to crack the world’s top ten (former world No. 1 and 2013 U.S. Champion Natalie Grainger became a U.S. citizen in February 2007 while ranked world No. 6, and remained in the top ten until April 2010).
The twenty-one-year-old rising senior at Harvard made her WSA World Series semifinal debut ranked world No. 15 in the CIMB Malaysian Open, August 19-22, defeating recent world junior champion Habiba Mohamed in her quarterfinal before exiting the tournament against Egypt’s Nour El Tayeb in the semis.
One week later, Sobhy upset world No. 5 Camille Serme in the Cathay Pacific Sun Hung Kai Financial Hong Kong Open quarterfinals to reach a second World Series semifinal where world No. 1 and eventual champion Nicol David eliminated the American.
After her sensational run in August, Sobhy returns to her studies at Harvard until competing in the Carol Weymuller Open and U.S. Open in October.
| 1 | [1] | Nicol David | MAS | 3, 666 |
| 2 | [2] | Laura Massaro | ENG | 2, 310 |
| 3 | [3] | Raneem El Welily | EGY | 2, 030 |
| 4 | [4] | Joelle King | NZL | 1, 171 |
| 5 | [5] | Camille Serme | FRA | 1, 091 |
| 6 | [6] | Alison Waters | ENG | 1, 026 |
| 7 | [7] | Low Wee Wern | MAS | 970 |
| 8 | [25] | Nour El Tayeb | EGY | 944 |
| 9 | [8] | Nour El Sherbini | EGY | 906 |
| 10 | [15] | Amanda Sobhy | USA | 806 |
| 11 | [9] | Annie Au | HKG | 795 |
| 12 | [10] | Dipika Pallikal | IND | 750 |
| 13 | [11] | Madeline Perry | IRL | 691 |
| 14 | [12] | Omneya Abdel Kawy | EGY | 647 |
| 15 | [14] | Rachael Grinham | AUS | 619 |
| 16 | [13] | Jenny Duncalf | ENG | 591 |
| 17 | [17] | Sarah-Jane Perry | ENG | 570 |
| 18 | [16] | Kasey Brown | AUS | 509 |
| 19 | [18] | Sarah Kippax | ENG | 465 |
| 20 | [20] | Emma Beddoes | ENG | 463 |
