Ramy Ashour is truly the sport's 'new kid on the block'! On January 1st 2005, two months after entering the Dunlop PSA World Ranking list at 300, the teenager made his debut in the top 100 at 94. A year on, and the super-talented youngster had already earned a place in the top 40 - and just twelve months later, on 1st January 2007, Ashour had leapt to No6 - truly a remarkable rise!

Ashour stunned the squash world in August 2004 when he became the youngest ever World Junior Champion - at the age of 16 - when seeded only to make the quarter-finals. Three months later, in his maiden appearance on the PSA Tour in Greece, he won the Athens Open - becoming one of only a handful of players who have claimed PSA titles on their Tour debuts.

In July 2006, Ashour successfully defended his world junior crown in New Zealand, becoming the first man in history to win the world's leading junior title twice.

Two months later, back on the 'senior' PSA Tour, he romped into the World Open quarter-finals in his home country after overcoming England's No10 seed Lee Beachill in a five-game 85-minute marathon.

His crowning achievement in 2006 came at the World Squash Awards in London where he was honored as the PSA Young Player of the Year.

Ashour surged back in 2007 - winning his first Super Series title at the Canadian Classic in Toronto in January, when a semi-final upset over Australian Anthony Ricketts took the 19-year-old into the final against second seed David Palmer - whom, this time, he beat in straight games.