2024–25 PSA Squash Tour explained

Type:	PSA
2024–25 PSA World Events
Event Name:	PSA World Events 2024–25
Dates:	August 2024 – July 2025
Categories:	World Championship Men's/Women's PSA Squash Tour Finals: Men's/Women's PSA Challenger Events Satellite & Federation Events
World Number 1:	Men Women:
World Champion:	Men Women:
Prevseason:	2023–24
Nextseason:	2025–26

The 2024–25 PSA World Events is the international squash tour organised circuit organized by the Professional Squash Association (PSA) for the 2024–25 squash season. It's the 10th PSA season since the merger of PSA and WSA associations in 2015.

The most important tournaments in the series are the PSA World Championship for Men's and Women's. The tour also features two circuits of regular events—PSA World Events (formerly PSA World Tour), which feature the highest prize money and the best fields; and PSA Challenger Events with prize money ranging $3,000–$15,000. In the middle of the year (usually in June), the PSA Squash Tour - World Events tour is concluded by the Men's and Women's PSA Squash Tour Finals in a to be determined venue, the season-ending championships for the top 8 rated players from PSA World Events level tournaments.

Overview

PSA World Events changes

Starting in August 2024, PSA revamped its professional tour structure in two individual circuits; PSA World Events and PSA Challenger Events.^[1]

PSA World Events (formerly PSA World Tour) will comprise most important tournaments in prize money for more experienced and higher-ranked players, including PSA World Championships and PSA Squash Tour Finals, labelled as following:

PSA World Championships — 64-players draw — $600,000
PSA Squash Tour Finals — 8-playerss draw — $300,000
PSA World Events Diamond — 48-players draw — $300,000 - (starting August 2024)
PSA World Events Platinum — 32-players draw — $190,000
PSA World Events Gold — 24-players draw — $100,000
PSA World Events Silver — 24-players draw — $75,000
PSA World Events Bronze — 24-players draw — $50,000
PSA World Events Copper — 24-players draw — $25,000 - (starting August 2024)

PSA Challenger Events (formerly Challenger Tour) tournaments will offer a $3,000–$15,000 prize-money, ideal circuit for less-experienced and upcoming players, that will include the following tiers:

PSA Challenger Events 15 — $15,000
PSA Challenger Events 12 — $12,000
PSA Challenger Events 9 — $9,000
PSA Challenger Events 6 — $6,000
PSA Challenger Events 3 — $3,000

Prize money/ranking points breakdown

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

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

PSA World Championships			Ranking Points
Rank	Prize Money US$	Ranking Points	Winner	Runner up	3/4	5/8	9/16	17/32	33/64
PSA World Championships	$600,000	27683 points	3500	2275	1400	875	525	321	196
PSA Squash Tour Finals			Ranking Points
Rank	Prize Money US$	Winner	Runner up	3/4	Round-Robin Match Win	Undefeated bonus
PSA Squash Tour Finals	$300,000	1000	550	200	150	150
PSA World Events			Ranking Points
Rank	Prize Money US$	Ranking Points	Winner	Runner up	3/4	5/8	9/16	17/32	33/48
Diamond	$300,000	24511 points	3100	2015	1240	775	465	284	173.5
Platinum	$190,000	17132 points	2800	1820	1120	700	420	257
Gold	$100,000	11010 points	1800	1170	720	450	270	165
Silver	$75,000	8261.5 points	1350	877.5	540	337.5	202.5	124
Bronze	$50,000	5505 points	900	585	360	225	135	82.5
Copper	$25,000	3061 points	500	325	200	125	75	46
PSA Challenger Events			Ranking Points
Rank	Prize Money US$	Ranking Points	Winner	Runner up	3/4	5/8	9/16	17/32	33/48
Challenger Events 15	$15,000	1835 points	300	195	120	75	45	27.5
Challenger Events 12	$12,000	1468 points	240	156	96	60	36	22
Challenger Events 9	$9,000	1101 points	180	117	72	45	27	16.5
Challenger Events 6	$6,000	734 points	120	78	48	30	18	11
Challenger Events 3	$3,000	367 points	60	39	24	15	9	5.5
PSA Satellite Events			Ranking Points
Rank	Prize Money US$	Ranking Points	Winner	Runner up	3/4	5/8	9/16	17/32	33/64
PSA Satellite Events	$1,000 – $3,000	183.5 points	30	19.5	12	7.5	4.5	2.75

Calendar

Key

PSA Tiers
World Championship
World Events Diamond
World Events Platinum
World Events Gold
World Events Silver
World Events Bronze
World Events Copper
Challenger Events 3/6/9/12/15

August

width=250	Tournament!	width=100	Date!	width=170	Champion!	width=170	Runner-Up!	width=170	Semifinalists!	width=170	Quarterfinalists
Open São Caetano do Sul, Brazil Men : Challenger 6 24 players – $6,000	13–17 August	Andrés Herrera 11–7, 6–11, 11–8, 11–3 (1st PSA title)	Pedro Mometto	Diego Gobbi Francesco Marcantonio	Segundo Portabales Guilherme Melo Juan Torres Rhuan Sousa
Reliance PSA Challenge Ratmalana, Sri Lanka *Men: Challenger 3 24 players – $3,000 −−−−−− Women*: Challenger 3 16 players – $3,000	15–18 August	Ravindu Laksiri 8–11, 11–2, 11–5, 11–5 (5th PSA title)	Shamil Wakeel	Vedant Patel Shota Yasunari	Seif Heikal Shariff Hakeem Ashan de Silva Tuwin Nilakshana
Anahat Singh 11–0, 11–1, 11–4 (5th PSA title)	15–18 August	Chanithma Sinaly	Yeheni Kuruppu Janet Vidhi	Jannis Lam Adhithi Gunasekera Anam Mustafa Aziz Ranliya Wood
Out East White Bear Challenge North Sea, United States *Men*: Challenger 6 24 players - $6,000	21–25 August
Squash Tour – Kolkata Kolkata, India *Men: Challenger 3 24 players – $3,000 −−−−−− Women*: Challenger 3 24 players – $3,000	27–31 August
	27–31 August
Tuanku Muhriz Trophy Seremban, Malaysia *Men: Challenger 15 24 players - $15,000 −−−−−− Women*: Challenger 15 24 players - $15,000	28 Aug. – 1 Sept.

Life Time Colleyville Open Colleyville, United States *Men*: Challenger 3 24 players – $3,000
Egyptian Open Giza, Egypt *Men: World Events – Diamond 48 players – $325,500 ------ Women*: World Events – Diamond 48 players – $325,500	30 Aug. – 6 Sep.
	30 Aug. – 6 Sep.

^[2] ^[3] ^[4]

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

World Championship/PSA Finals
World Events Diamond
World Events Platinum
World Events Gold
World Events Silver
World Events Bronze
World Events Copper
Challenger Events 3/6/9/12/15

Titles won by player (men's)

Total	Player	World Ch. / PSA Finals	Diamond	Platinum	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Copper	Challenger 15	Challenger 12	Challenger 9	Challenger 6	Challenger 3
1		<	--World Ch./PSA Finals-->	<	--Diamond-->	<	--Platinum-->	<	--Gold-->	<	--Silver-->	<	--Bronze-->	<	--Copper-->	<	--PSA Challenger 15-->	<	--PSA Challenger 12-->	<	--PSA Challenger 9-->	<	--PSA Challenger 6--> ●	<	--PSA Challenger 3-->
1		<	--World Ch./PSA Finals-->	<	--Diamond-->	<	--Platinum-->	<	--Gold-->	<	--Silver-->	<	--Bronze-->	<	--Copper-->	<	--PSA Challenger 15-->	<	--PSA Challenger 12-->	<	--PSA Challenger 9-->	<	--PSA Challenger 6-->	<	--PSA Challenger 3--> ●

Titles won by nation (men's)

Total	Nation	World Ch. / PSA Finals	Diamond	Platinum	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Copper	Challenger 15	Challenger 12	Challenger 9	Challenger 6	Challenger 3
1		<	--World Ch./PSA Finals-->	<	--Diamond-->	<	--Platinum-->	<	--Gold-->	<	--Silver-->	<	--Bronze-->	<	--Copper-->	<	--PSA Challenger 15-->	<	--PSA Challenger 12-->	<	--PSA Challenger 9-->	<	--PSA Challenger 6--> ●	<	--PSA Challenger 3-->
1		<	--World Ch./PSA Finals-->	<	--Diamond-->	<	--Platinum-->	<	--Gold-->	<	--Silver-->	<	--Bronze-->	<	--Copper-->	<	--PSA Challenger 15-->	<	--PSA Challenger 12-->	<	--PSA Challenger 9-->	<	--PSA Challenger 6-->	<	--PSA Challenger 3--> ●

Titles won by nation (women's)

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 2024–25 season:

Current world top 10 players

Men's world ranking

See main article: Official Men's Squash World Ranking.

Women's world ranking

See main article: Official Women's Squash World Ranking.

References

Web site: PSA Unveils New Tour Structure Ahead of 2024-25 Season . 20 August 2024. PSA Squash Tour.
Web site: PSA Calendar . PSA World Tour.
Web site: 2024 World Squash Calendar . 1 January 2024. SquashSite.
Web site: 2024 World Squash Calendar . Squash Info.

External links

PSA Squash Tour