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2023 PSA Men's World Squash Championship

The 2023 PSA Men's World Squash Championship was the 2023 men's edition of the World Squash Championships, 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 & 2020–21 editions.

Seeded Nº3 Ali Farag defeated unseeded Karim Abdel Gawad for the World Championship title. Gawad became the first unseeded player to reach the final since Rodney Martin in 1991. 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 10% prize fund decrease from previous World Championships (2021–22; $550,000 per gender).

Venues

University Club of Chicago 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 (semi finals) Ali Farag (champion) Paul Coll (quarter finals) Marwan El Shorbagy (third round) Tarek Momen (quarter finals) Victor Crouin (second round)

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

See also

References