Emilia Soini is the leading Finnish player on the women’s tour, and recently made her way into the top 50 of the World Rankings for the first time in her career.

She feature in four Finnish Opens between 2009 and 2013, but did not really start making her way into the game until 2016, where she finished runner-up to Samantha Cornett at the Simon Warder Memorial Prostate Cancer Tournament.

The Finn made it to the quarter-finals of the same event a year later, before reaching the last eight of the Sentara Martha Jefferson Charlottesville Open. She then made the last four of the Internazionali D’Italia before reaching the quarters of the E.M. Noll Classic and the Bermuda Open in early 2018.

Soini continued to reach the last eight of Challenger Tour events through 2019, with an appearance in the semi-finals of the Nash Cup, and a runners-up finish at the MTC Squash Russian Open. She also made the final of her home tournament, the Savcor Finnish Open, in 2020, but lost out to Milou van der Heijden.

Ineta Mackevica is the only Latvian player on the Tour, and she is closing in on the top 50 in the World Rankings.

The Latvian made her debut in 2013, but had to wait three years before she secured her first win in the main draw of an event. That came at the Sekisui Open in, where she reached the quarter-finals. She then made the same mark at the Paderborn Open, before going a step further at the Lviv Harrow Lion Squash Cup and the Grand Sport Armenia 1st Challenger in her next two events.

Mackevica made a string of quarter-final appearances across the next year, along with a last four result at the Bull Ring Open Squash Championships in South Africa. She made her first final on tour in 2018, at the 7th event on the Malaysian Squash Tour, but she lost out to Aifa Azman in four games.

At the Richmond Open, CAC Squash Open, CIB Wadi Degla Squash Tournament and the 2nd PwC Open, the Latvian made it to the last eight, before semi-final appearances came at the Remeo Ladies Open, and the Richmond Open a year later, in 2019.

After reaching the last four of the Capra Baerum Open, and then the last 16 of the Monte Carlo Squash Classic, she broke into the top 60 for the first time, reaching a high of World No.54 after appearances at the Manchester Open and the CIB Egyptian Open following the PSA World Tour’s resumption.

Canada’s Nicole Bunyan has been inside the top 75 in the World Rankings for five years, and is one of her nation’s top players.

The Canadian joined the Tour back in 2015, and the reached the quarter-finals of her second event, the Liberty Bell Open. She then reached the semis of the Nicolas Wealth Open and the final of the Bitar Cosmetics - Play Squash Women’s Open a year later.

Bunyan also made the final of the Virginia Squash Racquets Association Richmond Open in 2017, along with last eight appearances at the Sentara Martha Jefferson Charlottesville Open and the Alliance Fabricating Ltd. Simon Warder Memorial Prostate Cancer Open.

She took her first victory on Tour in 2018, winning the E.M. Noll Classic after defeating Maria Toorpakai Wazir in the final. That was followed by a semi-final run at the Bermuda Open and quarter-final appearances at the Queen City Open, London Open and Richmond Open.

She reached the last eight in Bermuda a year later, after featuring in the main draw of the World Championships for the first time. Bunyan also made semi-final appearances at the Aspin Cup later that year, as well as doing so at the E.M Noll Classic in 2020.

Canada’s Nikki Todd started on the Tour in 2012, and six years later, she broke into the top 50 for the first time in her career.

The Canadian reached the semi-finals of the Nash Cup a year later, along with a string of quarter-final appearances, before three straight last four results in 2014, at the Colony Ford Lincoln NSA Open, Nash Cup and the Manulife Investments WSA Tournament at Club Meadowvale.

She also reached the semis of the LiveStuff Open and the ORC Open that year, before making it to that stage of the Abierto Colombiano de Squash Club el Nogal a year later. Todd reached her first final in 2016, at the Corporation Service Company Delaware Open, but lost out to Fiona Moverley in the final.

In 2017, the Canadian had another run of three consecutive semi-final appearances, doing so at the Assore & Balwin Parkview Open, Keith Grainger Memorial UCT Open Squash Championships and the Nash Cup, before taking the first title of her career at the Alliance Fabricating Ltd. Simon Warder Memorial Prostate Cancer Open, beating Diana Garcia in the final.

She made the semi-finals in defence of her title a year later, along with reaching the same stage of the Queen City Open. Another final appearance came at the start of 2019, but she lost out at the Copa Produbaco - PSA Quito-Arrayanes Squash Open in Ecuador.

Todd took her second title at the Val de Marne in 2019, before achieving a string of last eight and last four appearances over the course of the next 18 months. That included reaching the semi-finals of the JC Women’s Open and the Queen City Open, in what was her last event before the Tour was suspended for six months.

Cristina Gomez is Spain’s No.1 female player, and has proven to be a consistent performer since her debut on Tour in 2017.

The Spaniard made at least the last eight in three of her first four events on the Tour, including reaching the semi-finals of the Sekisui Open. She then had a run of six straight events in 2018 where she made the last eight or better.

That run started at the TRAC Oil & Gas North of Scotland Open, where she made the semis. She also made the last four of the Christchurch Vets Surgery Ipswich Open, along with quarter-final results at the Denton Associates Northern Open, Sekisui Open, Open International des Volcans and the Karakal Bangor Classic.

Gomez continued her good form into the early part of 2019, with a semi-final appearance at the Springfield Scottish Squash Open. Later that year, she also made it into the last four of the Val de Marne and the Capra Baerum Open.

Wen Li Lai is another young Malaysian who is already a part of the top 80 in the World Rankings and looking up to higher heights.

The entirety of her early career was played on the Malaysian Squash Tour, where she made her debut in 2014. She had to wait two years before making the quarter-finals of an event, three before making the last four, and it was 2018 before she reached the final of an event, losing out to Aifa Azman.

From there, though, she went from strength to strength and moved on to international events. She also finished runner-up at the City of Kalgoorlie Boulder Golden Open, before securing her first victory as a professional in 2019. Li Lai won the Inspirenet International Squash Classic after defeating Emma Millar in the final in Palmerston North.

The Malaysian then went on to reach the last eight of the Steel City South Australian Open, before finishing runner-up at the Chennai Leg of the HCL SRFI Indian Tour. She reached the last eight of. The Serena Huawei Pakistan International Squash Tournament and the Mumbai Leg of the HCL SRFI Tour in her most recent appearances on the Tour in early 2020.

Ali Loke is one of three Welshwomen inside the top 100 in the World Rankings, and she has made strides since joining the Tour in 2016.

Loke made it through to the quarter-finals of the first main draw she played in, doing so at the Czech International Championship, before making the same stage of both the Alliance Fabricating Ltd. Simon Warder Memorial Prostate Cancer Open and the Malaysian Squash Tour I.

The Welshwoman also made it into the last eight of the Karakal Bangor Classic on home soil in 2018, and the Grand Sport Armenian W5 Challenger III a year later. She broke into the top 100 in the World Rankings that year as well, before making the last eight of the Queen City Open in what was her last event before the six-month suspension of the Tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Diana Garcia has been part of the top 100 in the World Rankings for the majority of her career, and is Mexico’s leading female player.

She began her career on Tour in 2011, and reached the last eight of the Grupo Pao de Acucar Open, in just her third event as a professional. Further quarter-final appearances at the Liberty Bell Open in both 2013 and 2014, before she made the semis of the same tournament two years after that.

Garcia also made the last four of the Masters School Open, before reaching her first final on Tour, doing so in 2017 at the Alliance Fabricating Ltd. Simon Warder Memorial Prostate Cancer Open. After a string of quarter-final results in 2018, the Mexican broke her duck to win the Copa Produbanco - PSA Quito-Arrayanes Squash Open, defeating Nikki Todd in the final.

Despite still being in her teenage years, Pakistan’s Amna Fayyaz has already secured victories on Tour, and made her way into the top 100 of the World Rankings.

She made her debut on Tour in 2018, and reached the semi-finals of her first ever event, doing so at the Pakistan Squash Circuit I. She also made the quarter-finals of the Jubilee Insurance Company Ltd. Pakistan Squash Championships Circuit III and the DHA Cup International Squash Championship that year as well.

Fayyaz took her first win on Tour a year later, securing the victory at the same event she had made her debut at twelve months previous, the Pakistan Squash Circuit I. Thanks to that win, she made her way into the top 100 of the World Rankings for the first time in her career.

The Pakistani only played a few more times through 2019, before securing another win in her first appearance of 2020, defeating Faiza Zafar in the final of the BISL International Squash Championship.

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Vanessa Raj is an up-and-coming Malaysian who has a wealth of talent at her disposal.

She has made great strides up the World Rankings in recent years with a number of runner-up finishes to her name including two on the 2015 Malaysian Tour.

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Laila Sedky is one of several Americans inside the top 100 and she is the younger sister of Reeham Sedky.

She joined the Tour in 2019, and reached the quarter-finals of her first two events as a professional, doing so at the Richmond Open and the MTC Squash Russian Open.

Sedky then made her debut at a Platinum event at the FS Investments U.S. Open Squash Championships later that year, before reaching the quarter-finals of the Seattle Open at the start of 2020, breaking into the top 100 in the World Rankings as a result.

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