Congrats to your Pro winners on the weekend:
– Singles: Montserrate Mejia
– Doubles: Maria Jose Vargas & @Valeria Centellas
Exec Summary: Mejia denies Longoria and wins her 8th career title, now sitting in 12th place alone. Nonetheless, Longoria secures the 2024-25 year end title, her 14th.
R2 Sports App home page for event: https://www.r2sports.com/website/event-website.asp?TID=48794
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Let’s review the notable matches in the Singles draw.
Singles Match report in the PRS database: https://rball.pro/11b4f8
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In the 32s, a couple of notable results:
– Sanchez took out MRR to move on.
– Synhorst topped the veteran Acosta in a solid win
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In the 16s, just a couple of notable matches to mention:
– Lexi York took #5 Herrera to a breaker but fell
– The sole upset was #11 Parrilla taking out #6 Laime.
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In the Quarters
– #1 Longoria did what she normally does against #8 Lawrence, grinding out a solid win
– #4 Gaby made fast work of #5 Herrera.
– #3 Mejia took out her long-time rival Parrilla 8,7
– #2 Vargas was pushed by her former doubles partner Mendez but advanced 2,11
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In the Semis
– Longoria came out on top of a close 13,14 match against Gaby, who always seems to play Paola tough.
– In the increasingly tough 2/3 battle, Mejia came out on top over Vargas in a breaker. She advances to her 3rd straight final in as many chances after going months without doing so.
In the Finals, Mejia had it going on this day, winning13,5 to take the title, her 2nd in the last three events.
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Points Implications of results
Despite losing in the final, Longoria has officially sewn up her 14th career pro title. She has an insurmountable 334 point lead in the season-to-date standings, and with just one non-Grand slam event remaining she cannot be caught. Longoria returns to the top after missing out on the last two year end titles, and heads into the new season with a commanding lead, having made the final of all 6 stops thus far this season.
In other interesting rankings movement: going by Season-to-date standings, Mejia has not yet sewn up #2 but is close to doing so, but should jump Vargas for that slot in the year end event. Mendez has made a huge jump and projects to finish 5th. After years of being in the top 4, Herrera looks to slip all the way to #8. Munoz’ absence here costs here dearly; she’s projecting to finish #13 now. Lastly, three players are tied with the exact same number of points for 14th place (York, Lotts, and Synhorst), which will make the last event super interesting if they all attend.
Here’s a link to my IRT Rolling 2year Calendar XLS, which I use to approximate the points after each event. It is not exact but it’s usually close enough to the actual rankings, which @Ryan Rodgers does with @R2 Sports App on behalf of the tour after each event, to allow some quick post-event analysis before the rankings post.
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Doubles review
Match report in the PRS database: https://rball.pro/40849b
Centellas got her first pro doubles title in nearly 5 years, teaming with Vargas to take out the Longoria/Salas team.
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Next up?
Per our handy master racquetball calendar …
The Ladies are right back at it, driving down I95 from DC to get to Charlotte for the season-ending Sweet Caroline Open, normally held in Greenville SC but moving this year due to club renovations.
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