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2016 PSA World Tour

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Event name
  
PSA World Tour 2016

Categories
  
World Championship World Series 15–16 & 16–17 PSA World Series Finals PSA International

World Number 1
  
Men : Mohamed El Shorbagy (11 months) Women : Nour El Sherbini (7 months) Laura Massaro (4 months)

World Champion
  
Men : Karim Abdel Gawad Women : coming soon

The PSA World Tour 2016 is the international squash tour organised circuit organized by the Professional Squash Association (PSA) for the 2016 squash season. The most important tournaments in the series is the Men's World Championship and the Women's World Championship. The tour features three categories of regular events, World Series, which feature the highest prize money and the best fields, International and Challenger. In the middle of the year, the PSA World Series tour is concluded by the Men's PSA World Series Finals and the Women's PSA World Series Finals in Dubai, the end of the world series season for the top 8 rated players. Players performances in the tour are rated by the Men's World Rankings and Women's World Rankings.

Contents

2016 Calendar

Categories: International tournaments and more.

Retirements

Following is a list of notable players (winners of a main tour title, and/or part of the PSA Men's World Rankings and Women's World Rankings top 30 for at least one month) who announced their retirement from professional squash, became inactive, or were permanently banned from playing, during the 2016 season:

  • Laurens Jan Anjema (born 1 December 1982 in The Hague, Netherlands) joined the pro tour in 1999, reached the singles no. 9 spot in 2010. He won 12 PSA World Tour titles including the Netsuite Open against Omar Mosaad and the Bluenose Classic against Borja Golán. He reached in 2010 the final of the US Open against Wael El Hindi. He retired in July after 15 years on the tour.
  • References

    2016 PSA World Tour Wikipedia