The 2019–20 PSA World Tour is the international

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tour organised circuit organized by the

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(PSA) for the 2019–20

season. It's the 5th PSA season since the merger of PSA and WSA associations in 2015. The most important tournaments in the series are the Men's and

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''PSA World Championship''. The tour also features two circuits of regular events - ''PSA World Tour'' (formerly PSA World Series), which feature the highest prize money and the best fields; and PSA Challenger Tour with prize money ranging $5,500–$30,000. In the middle of the year, the PSA World Tour tour is concluded by the Men's and

''PSA World Tour Finals'' in

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, the season-ending championships for the top 8 rated players from World Tour level tournaments.

Overview

PSA World Tour changes

Starting in August 2018, PSA revamped its professional tour structure in two individual circuits; PSA World Tour and PSA Challenger Tour. PSA World Tour (formerly PSA World Series) will comprise most important tournaments in prize money ($50,000–$1,000,000) for more experienced and higher-ranked players, including PSA World Championships and PSA World Tour Finals, labelled as following: *PSA World Tour Platinum — 48-player draws — $180,500 *PSA World Tour Gold — 24-player draws — $100,000 *PSA World Tour Silver — 24-player draws — $73,500 *PSA World Tour Bronze — 24-player draws — $51,250 PSA Challenger Tour tournaments will offer a $6,000–$30,000 prize-money, ideal circuit for less-experienced and upcoming players, that will include the following tiers: *PSA Challenger Tour 30 — $30,000 *PSA Challenger Tour 20 — $20,000 *PSA Challenger Tour 10 — $12,000 *PSA Challenger Tour 5 — $6,000 Further, PSA will implement some rule changes like the removing of qualification rounds among others. Also PSA will grant 7 World Championship wildcards for winners of selected PSA Challenger Tour chosen by PSA. Additionally, PSA and WSF will jointly manage PSA Satellite Tour, a circuit for amateur or junior players who aim to become professionals.

Prize money/ranking points breakdown

PSA World Tour events also have a separate World Tour ranking. Points for this are calculated on a cumulative basis after each World Tour event. The top eight players at the end of the calendar year are then eligible to play in the

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. Ranking points vary according to tournament tier being awarded as follows:

World Tour halts

In mid-March 2020, due to

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, The Professional Squash Association was forced to suspend the PSA Tour (World Tour, Challenger Tour and WSF & PSA Satellite Tour) until May. Then, the Tour suspension experienced new extensions first until July and later until September. PSA Tour return is expected to September 2020.

Calendar

Key

August

(QE): 2019–20 PSA World Squash Championships Qualifying Event.

September

October

November

December

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

PSA World Tour Finals

Due to play on 15–20 June 2020, the World Tour Finals were postponed to 28 September–3 October due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Statistical information

The players/nations are sorted by: # Total number of titles; # Cumulated importance of those titles; # Alphabetical order (by family names for players).

Key

Titles won by player (men's)

Titles won by nation (men's)

Titles won by player (women's)

Titles won by nation (women's)

World Championship qualifiers

Winners of a select group of PSA Challenger Tour tournaments chosen by PSA receive a wildcard for the Men's and

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. The qualified players were:

World and Continental championships

National championships

These are the winners of the most relevant national squash championships.

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 2019–20 season: *

Annie Au Annie Au Wing Chi (; born February 9, 1989), known as Annie Au, is a former professional squash player who represented Hong Kong. Career Annie is a left-hander from Asia Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land a ...

Leo Au Leo Au (born Au Chun Ming; February 1, 1990 in Hong Kong) is a retired professional squash player who represented Hong Kong. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 20 in July 2018. Leo Au was coached by Abdul Faheem Khan. On 5 ...

Joey Chan Joey Chan Ho-ling (; born May 20, 1988, in Hong Kong), known as Joey Chan, is a former professional squash (sport), squash player who represents Hong Kong. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 16 in May 2012. Career Chan joine ...

Samantha Cornett Samantha Jean Lardner Cornett (born February 4, 1991) is a Canadian retired professional squash player. She is from Deep River, Ontario. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 23 in February 2018. She has won 4 Canadian National Ch ...

Ryan Cuskelly Ryan Cuskelly (born 15 July 1987 in Lismore) is an Australian professional squash player. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 12 in March 2017. He reached his first semi-final of a World Series tournament in the 2015 Qatar Cla ...

Raneem El Weleily Raneem Mohamed Yasser Saad El Din El Welily (; born 1 January 1989, in Alexandria, Egypt) is a former professional squash player from Egypt. She reached a career-high world ranking of No. 1 in September 2015. She is a three-time finalist at the ...

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Omar Abdel Meguid Omar Abdel Meguid (; born February 23, 1988, in Giza) is a professional squash player who represents Egypt. He joined the Professional Squash Association The Professional Squash Association, or simply the PSA, is the governing body for the m ...

Cameron Pilley Cameron Pilley (born 27 October 1982) is an Australian former professional squash player. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 11 in January 2011. Pilley was born in Grafton, New South Wales New South Wales (commonly abb ...

* Chris Simpson

References

External links

PSA World Tour
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