Mubure gets World ranking

Mubure, who is currently based in Eindhoven in the Netherlands, is now ranked 405th in the Dunlop Professional Squash Association World Rankings.
This came after Mubure (24) won the Dunlop circuit at the beginning of this month in the Netherlands for his first title as a professional player.
Speaking to The Herald from Eindhoven yesterday, Mubure said he moved up from 417th to 405th in the world rankings after he picked up five points for winning the Dunlop circuit.
Winning the Dunlop circuit was a major stepping stone for Mubure who only turned professional last month after he joined the Professional Squash Association.
After joining the PSA, Mubure left the country at the end of last month for a three-month stay in the Netherlands where he will be under the guidance of that country’s national coach Sjef van der Eidjen.
When he joined the PSA, Mubure had no world ranking attached to his name but after playing in a handful of tournaments in the Netherlands, the ambitious Zimbabwean player first managed to get a world ranking of 417th.
He then moved up the ladder to number 405 in the world after he got five points for emerging triumphant in the Dunlop circuit that he played in at the beginning of this month.
According to the Dunlop PSA World Rankings for May 2011, Mubure moved to 405th place with 5.00 points following his success in the Dunlop circuit at Hellendoorn in the Netherlands.
This is Mubure’s highest world ranking in his career since he turned professional last month.
Nick Matthew of England is currently the world’s top squash player with 15 683.75 points and the next two places in the world rankings are occupied by the Egyptian duo of Ramy Ashour (12 965.00 points) and Karim Darwish (10 227.00 points).
Matthew’s fellow Briton James Willstrop is sitting at number four with 8 978.75 points and is placed fourth ahead of Amr Shabana of Egypt (8 322.50 points).
A number of Egyptian players are, in fact, ranked in the top 50 and South Africa’s Stephen Coppinger, with a world ranking of 35 and 1 787.50 points, is the only player from Southern Africa who is in this bracket.
But they will soon be joined in this “elite club” by Zimbabwe’s Mubure who is determined to rise up and be ranked among the top 50 players in the world during his current three-month stay in the Netherlands.
Apart from playing in the Netherlands, Mubure will also travel to Germany and Belgium in the next two months where he is expected to play in other top professional tournaments in his quest to get more PSA Tour points.
The ambitious young player is also looking at playing squash in the United States before the end of the year as he tries to break into the world’s top 50.
Meanwhile, another top Zimbabwean player Shaune Johnstone is now ranked 417th in the world, 12 places behind Mubure.
Johnstone was once ranked 281 in February 2009 before he slid down the table to 417th.