Houston Open Tournament (1)

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• Houston Open is a prestigious squash sports event
  and finds place in the PSA World Tour. The event
  has witnessed huge popularity in the last few
  years courtesy to the high level gaming that it
  offers through the leading squash players from
  around the world. The prize is USD 70,000 while
  the winner grabs USD 11,732.5 and this attracts
  the best of sporting talent in the field of
  squash. The coming event has players turning up
  from 13 nations around the world! The event also
  has found top sponsors including from US. Among
  the official sponsors is Hutkay.fit, the brand
  known for high quality squash sports accessories
  and apparels. The Company markets entire
  diversity of sports products like racquets,
  quality strings, squash balls, shoes, tees,
  hoodies and bags among other things.  

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• Squash as a sport has become much popular among
  the youth because of the swift and hard core
  gaming concept of it. This popularity has found
  resonance through the top squash events around
  the world and the PSA tour is still expanding
  through inclusion of more events. Houston Open
  has got established as a high voltage event
  because of the participation of leading players
  from around the world.  

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• Houston Open 2016 saw the coronation of Egyptian
  Marwan Elshorbagy when he beat his fellow
  Egyptian Mohammed Abouelghar in a tough 51 minute
  match. It is interesting to note that Egypt has
  always been in the forefront of squash talent and
  this US tournament also finds some of the leading
  best ranked Egyptian players.  

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• The top players of Houston Open
• The champions of Houston Open squash Championship
  in last four years were
• Year                         Champion             
            
• 2016                  Marwan Elshorbagy          
• 2015                  Mazen Hesham                
  
• 2014                  Mazen Hesham           
       
• 2013                  Campbell Grayson  

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• It will be the first time the Houston Open will
  witness 9 players in the top 20 world rankings!
  These include
• Karim Abdel Gawad, World no.2
• James Willstrop, World no.6
• Tarek Momen, World no.10
• Fares Dessouky, World no.11
• Ryan Cuskelly, World no.12
• Omar Mossad, World no.13
• Miguel Rodriguez, World no. 14
• Paul Coll, World no.16
• Stephan Coppinger, World no.20

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• These are the leading players of Houston Open and
  are ranked in the world best. Hutkay.fit is one
  of the sponsors of event and backs two top
  players of the event who are Karim Abdel Gawad
  and Mazen Hesham. The association of Hutkay.fit
  with Houston Open is very integral as the Company
  markets highest quality squash gear. Some of the
  leading brands are available in its storefront
  and all the products, especially the shoes and
  apparels conform to the front line quality
  standards. Specialty squash socks and wrist gear
  are also marketed. Squash balls and high tensile
  squash strings are also available that assure
  tough practice sessions for the probables and
  participants.

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• The upcoming Houston Open 2017  
• The schedule of Houston Open 2017 has been
  released and it is spread from 17th to 23rd of
  April. The first qualifying is scheduled on
  17th April while the final qualifying would be
  held on 18th April. 19th April will witness the
  clash of upper half first round and 20th April
  will have bottom half first round matches played.
  Quarter finals and semis are planned for 21st and
  22nd April while the hot final is scheduled for
  23rd! This information was released by Tournament
  Director Jahanzeb Khan of Lifetime Athletic Club
  of Texas.