The 2023 PSA Men's World Squash Championship was the 2023 men's edition of the

World Squash Championships The World Squash Championships are squash events for men and women organised by the Professional Squash Association. The men's event was first held in 1976 in London, England and the women's was inaugurated in 1976 in Brisbane, Australia. Overv ...

, which served as the individual world championship for squash players. The event took place in Chicago, United States from 3 to 11 May 2023. It was the third time that Chicago hosted the PSA World Championships after 2018–19 &

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editions. Seeded Nº3 Ali Farag defeated unseeded

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 ...

for the World Championship title. Gawad became the first unseeded player to reach the final since Rodney Martin in

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. It was Farag's fourth World Championship title, having previously won in 2019, 2021 and 2022.

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 $1,000,000, $500,000 per gender. This is about a 1% prize fund decrease from previous World Championships (2021–22; $550,000 per gender).

Venues

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and Chicago Union Station in Chicago are the two venues that hosted the competition.

Seeds

Mostafa Asal ''(semi finals)'' Diego Elías ''(quarter finals)''

Mohamed El Shorbagy Mohamed ElShorbagy ( ar, محمد الشوربجي, born 12 January 1991 in Alexandria) is an Egyptian-English professional squash player. He represented Egypt from a young age until June 2022, and is currently representing England. He reached ...

''(semi finals)'' Ali Farag ''(champion)'' Paul Coll ''(quarter finals)'' Marwan El Shorbagy ''(third round)'' Tarek Momen ''(quarter finals)''

Victor Crouin Victor Crouin (born 16 June 1999 in Marseille) is a French professional squash player. As of September 2022, he was ranked number 10 in the world after winning the Open de France de Squash 2022. Crouin is enrolled in the Harvard University ...

''(second round)'' Mazen Hesham ''(quarter finals)'' Fares Dessouky ''(second round)'' Joel Makin ''(third round)'' Youssef Soliman ''(first round)'' Miguel Á Rodríguez ''(third round)''

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''(first round)'' Grégoire Marche ''(second round)'' Saurav Ghosal ''(third round)''

Draw and results

Key

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

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

Schedule

''Times are Central Daylight Time (UTC−05:00)''. ''To the best of five games.'' ''Abbreviations:'' *UCC - University Club of Chicago *CUS - Chicago Union Station.

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 2023 PSA Men's World Championship. A total of 21 nationalities are represented. Egypt is the most represented nation with 15 players.

References

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