How Did The 2025 World Champs Stack Up?
With the 2025 PSA World Championships wrapped, it’s time to look into the numbers behind the headlines—and see how this year’s edition compares to recent history. First up: the big-picture stats.
Men’s Draw: Narrowing Margins
At first glance, the men’s event looked like a top-seed showcase, and to some extend it was—but the stats tell a more nuanced story. This was the most tightly contested men’s World Championship in five years. Winners averaged 0.63 games dropped per match—up from a five-year average of 0.54—indicating that the differences between the players are narrower than ever.
Match length, however, trended slightly down: 45.31 minutes compared to a five-year average of 46.03. That minor dip suggests that while players were dropping more games, they weren’t necessarily being dragged into longer matches—a sign of faster-paced, higher-intensity exchanges, and slightly shorter average game lengths.
Women’s Draw: Depth Rising
The women’s draw also pointed to increased competition. Winners dropped an average of 0.68 games per match—well above the five-year average of 0.53—showing how the talent pool continues to deepen, with early rounds no longer straightforward.
In contrast to the men’s, women’s matches were slightly longer on average: 37.79 minutes vs. 36.41 the past five-years. It’s a subtle but telling sign that matches are becoming more hard-fought across the board. Whether it’s extended rallies or more balanced early matchups, the data underscores a rise in parity and resistance throughout the women’s field.
Asal’s Clean Sweep
Most saw it coming—but that doesn’t make it any less impressive. Mostafa Asal tore through the men’s draw without dropping a game, becoming only the second man ever to do so and the first in the modern point-a-rally scoring era.
Compared to the past four men’s champions, Asal’s dominance stands tall—at least in terms of games dropped. But in raw point-winning efficiency, it’s Diego Elias who edges it, claiming a slender lead at 68.4% to Asal’s 68.3%.
With an average match time of just 41.33 minutes Asal once again impresses—comfortably under the men’s average of 44.97. More curious: Ali Farag. Despite consistant points-won percentages, he recorded both the shortest and longest average match durations, underlining the volatility in his path.
El Sherbini Dominance
For Nour El Sherbini, the metrics echo her own legacy. Her 2025 run mirrors previous campaigns, though her points-won percentage dipped below 60%—making this her least dominant recent title.
Sherbini’s average match time? Right on the nose at 38.17 minutes—squarely in line with the tournament average of 39.23 minutes. Gohar, by contrast, recorded the longest average of anyplayer—male or female. But considering her final three opponents were El Tayeb, El Hammamy, and El Sherbini, that stat tells its own story.
The Takeaway
The 2025 World Championships blended dominance and depth like few editions before. Asal’s flawless run will be remembered as a historic feat—but the broader numbers reveal a draw packed with resistance and rising threats.
El Sherbini continues to embody elite consistency, though the narrowing margins suggest the field is catching up. From opening rounds to finals, matches were tighter, opponents tougher, and the battle for supremacy more complex.
The headline may belong to the champions—but the real narrative is a sport evolving fast, where every round now carries real jeopardy.