The WR would be taken over the last three months results and John had been competing fairly consistently until his retirement announcement.  It seems that John has been weighing up his commitments, his age, and all of that, and made up his mind on the spur of the moment following that defeat.  Hey, at this high level it is an awful lot of work for the most minute increment, and after 15 years of hard yakka it is understandable that life has to move on.

I have enjoyed following John's career and I hope he does well in his retirement. Betya it will not be retirement really .......he already mentioned he had a full time job coaching....playing and coaching do not combine that well either, from one who knows.

PS - Mike, the major tournaments would return more WR points too and that would help Ramy. The top guys don't waste their energy on the small tournaments, and it is good for the lower ranked players to get a few prizes/points....heavens that sounds patronising.

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I saw Karim at the Worlds and he plays a very solid game, although I'm surprised at how high he jumped.

I'm surprised John White is still ranked now that he's retired?

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Yeah I was surprised that Karim jumped 4 spots, while Ramy stayed the same. Clearly consistency counts, as Ramy won the Worlds and made it to the quatar finals at Qatar. Karim was runner up at the Worlds and won in Qatar.

Shabana will become closer to the rest as his string of wins from 2007 drop out of the points pool.

England now has 3 in the top 10 too.

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