The 2022 PSA Men's World Squash Championship was the 2022 men's edition of the

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, which served as the individual world championship for squash players. The event took place in

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from 13 to 22 May 2022. It was the fifth time that Cairo host the PSA World Championships after

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editions.

World Ranking Points/Prize money

PSA also awards points towards World Ranking. Points are awarded as follows:

Prize money breakdown

Total prize money for the tournament is $1,100,000, $550,000 per gender. This is about a 9% prize fund increase from previous World Championships (2020–21; $500,000 per gender).

Seeds

Paul Coll ''(Semi finals)'' Ali Farag ''(champion)''

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''(finals)'' Mostafa Asal ''(Semi finals)'' Diego Elías ''(Quarter finals)'' Tarek Momen ''(Quarter finals)'' Marwan El Shorbagy ''(Quarter finals)'' Fares Dessouky ''(Quarter finals)'' Joel Makin ''(third round)'' Mazen Hesham ''(third round)''

Youssef Ibrahim Youssef Ibrahim (born 2 March 1999 in Cairo) is an Egyptian professional squash player. As of July 2022, he was squash rankings, ranked 11 in the world. Ibrahim currently studies at Princeton University and plays No. 1 for the Princeton Tigers m ...

''(third round)''

Karim Abdel Gawad Karim Abdel Gawad (born July 30, 1991, in Alexandria) is a professional squash player who has represented Egypt. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 1 in May 2017. In November 2016, he won the 2016 World Open Squash Championshi ...

''(third round)'' Grégoire Marche ''(third round)'' Miguel Ángel Rodríguez ''(first round)'' Youssef Soliman ''(third round)'' Saurav Ghosal ''(third round)''

Draw and results

Key

* rtd. = Retired * Q = Qualifier * WC = Host wild card * I = invitee * w/o = Walkover

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

Schedule

''Times are Egypt Standard Time (UTC+02:00)''. ''To the best of five games.''

Round 1

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Round 2

Round 3

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Representation

This table shows the number of players by country in the 2022 PSA Men's World Championship. A total of 19 nationalities are represented. Egypt is the most represented nation with 20 players.

References

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