How many World #68's are there???
Published: 03 May 2006 - 06:57 by missing_record1
Updated: 26 Sep 2008 - 09:07
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In the latest May PSA rankings, Nick Kyme is ranked #68. Now, Nick seems like a nice enough fellow, but if he is the 68th best squash player in the world I'll eat my racket. I saw him play in college. I saw him lose in college. He just isn't that good. So, how many good players are out there that, for whatever reason, aren't touring professionals but play (or could play with a little training) at a high enough standard that they COULD be world #68 if they chose to be? I personally know of at least a dozen guys ranked below 100 or not even ranked that could beat him easily, but they either don't tour or aren't even PSA members. So I am going to guess there are at least 300 -400 that are around Kyme's level or better. But maybe there are more? How many great players stop playing seriously after U19 or U23 to pursue other careers? How many great players can't afford to travel to compete? How many great Pakistanis or Egyptians or Indians or British -- or whoever -- are there? Just thinking out loud...
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From BizarreCo - 03 May 2006 - 19:18
From rippa rit - 03 May 2006 - 08:39
Anyway, no worries, he would not earn enough money at No. 68 to buy his porridge so I would not worry too much about it.
I doubt if anybody will take too much notice until a squash player reaches about No. 20 in the rankings.
Some players just save up to have a holiday and join the circuit to test out their skills, and I see we have a few Aussies doing just that too.
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Very nice perceptions, even though I just play for fun,
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A good example to this would be David Evans (former world number 2). He's been out of the rankings for almost 2 years now, and still managed to 3-0 Alex Gough (WR 19) earlier in the season!
It seems that a lot of players in the top 150 - 200 are of similar standards, and often it come down to the number of results that they have in order to rank them.
Look at Farhan Mehboob at WR150. He's only played 3 tournaments compared to the 10 played by WR149 Ryan Thompson. After following the world teams competition quite closely, I know that Ferhan Mehboob could be easily top 30 in the world is he had the other 7 tournaments go quite well!
Rippa is completely right about the top 20 in the world being different. Look at the averages of the players..... they are all separated by 1 to 10 points per place from 20 down to 150, but there is a 15 point jump from 20 up to 19! Then it stays close for a while before jumping again at 12 by 50 points!!!
I guess it really is about how many results you get on the board!
ADZ
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