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World Champs Day Two Roundup: Kobayashi Becomes First Japanese Man to Reach RD2
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Yokohama-born Ryosei Kobayashi has become the first Japanese man to reach the second round of the PSA World Championships presented by the Walter Family after he ousted India’s Mahesh Mangaonkar in five games at the University Club of Chicago.
World No.70 Kobayashi’s first round appearance at the 2019-20 PSA World Championships saw him become the first male Japanese player since 1982 to compete at squash’s most prestigious tournament, and the 27-year-old went one better this time around with a 10-12, 11-7, 8-11, 11-9, 11-3 victory against World No.48 Mahesh Mangaonkar.
PSA
21st Dec 2020
Power Ratings
The final tournament of a challenging 2020 saw the CIB Black Ball Squash Open held in Cairo, and following the event, there have been some big changes on the SquashLevels Power Ratings
SquashLevels calculates a player’s current playing level after every match based on their levels going into the match and the result of that match. Their level will increase if they do better than expected or decrease if they do less well than expected giving a very dynamic measure for how well each player is playing ‘at the moment’ and what their playing level has been over time. For more information on how player levels are calculated, please see the