The Houston Open 2022 gets underway at the Houston Squash Club in Texas today. Play begins at 12:00 (GMT -6) and you can stay up to date with all the reaction from round one right here.
Home interest comes from the top three ranked USA players, Shahjahan Khan, Todd Harrity and Faraz Khan. All three feature in round one, looking to excite the home crowd and start the new year well.
Talented Egyptian Youssef Soliman will be looking to continue his rise on the PSA World Tour as he takes on England’s Nathan Lake in round one. Lake’s compatriot and England No.2 Declan James also features in round one as he faces fellow European Dimitri Steinmann from Switzerland in the fourth match of the day.
You can watch all of the action live on SQUASHTV and keep up to date with all the live scores here.
Order of Play
Times are local GMT-6
Order of play
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The opening match of 2022 on the PSA World Tour was between World No.21 Raphael Kandra from Germany and Sebastien Bonmalais from France.
Kandra shot out of the blocks, capitalising on a slow start from his French opponent, to take a 7-1 lead in the first game before Bonmalais found his length and used his strong movement to start to work Kandra into all areas of the court and took the game 12-10.
Bonmalais was able to extend the rallies in the second game and force errors from his older opponent and took the game 11-8 to give himself a 2-0 lead.
However, Kandra used his experience to battle back and disrupt the Frenchman. He used his accuracy and unorthodox attacks to take the third and fourth games and set up a decider.
Kandra established a healthy lead in the fifth game and managed too book his place in the last 16 in 74 minutes. The German will now face World No.1 Ali Farag in the next round.
Kandra admits he struggled in the match but was happy he managed to fight back and win:
“I thought I had a plan in the beginning, I wasn’t playing too bad, I was leading 7-1 in the first game but couldn’t control my game plan. I was overwhelmed, he fought back and I had no plan to fight against it so I just let him go in the first game.” Kandra explained.
“The second was similar, I was leading and he fought back and he really wanted to win that game and for me I was missing that extra force to go though so I was 2-0 down quite quickly. But I thought …….
Source: https://psaworldtour.com/news/view/9381/houston-open-2022-day-one-player-reaction