LPRT 2024-25 Season Ending Recap Series

Gaby wins the season opener in an 11-10 thriller. It was her only win of the season. Photo via Gaby

Hello Racquetball fans! The latest LPRT finished up in late June, with @Paola Longoria winning her 14th career Pro year-end title. As is our custom, we’ll do a few posts to recap the season.

In this post we’ll just put in links to the season-summary resources here at Pro Racquetball Stats, to which we’ve just finished adding the year-end standings. Next we’ll do a recap of the top 10 players, then in the last post we’ll cover the rest of the tour with notables and what not.

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Key Reports that show Interesting Year End Data:

– Year-End Standings in the database: https://rball.pro/67385e

Longoria ended up winning the title by more than 300 points. That’s exactly the number of points earned for a regular season tour event, so one missed event going forward and Vargas or Mejia could catch her going forward. The race between the top 3 is tight.

– All Finals this season: https://rball.pro/adb65d

We had 7 events this season, one fewer than last season. The tour lost the San Antonio and Chesapeake events, picked up the NoVa invitational, but will presumably lose the Glass Door event next season unless the Peters family/Chicago crew can find another site. They’ll pick up World Singes & Doubles and hopefully the US Open in 2026, but are still missing some of the big-money events they had at the beginning of the decade in places like Aguascaliente, Kansas City, Longoria made the finals of 6 of this season’s 7 events, only missing the last tourney where she already had the title sewn up.

– Distinct Winners per season: https://rball.pro/62777f

This season we saw four different winners in seven events, with very even distribution. @Gaby Martinez took the season opener, then the top 3 ladies each won twice this season. It was the consistency of Longoria versus her rivals that propelled her to the top.

– Season Summary report: https://rball.pro/a82149

This is my go-to report to see the best summary information for the entire tour in one place. This shows every player who appeared on the season, their season-ending rank, and they’re ordered # of tourney wins, # of finals, # of semis, etc. I’ve also got their age at the end of the season, their career and seasonal W/L records, etc. Interesting factoid from this report: there were just six distinct players all season who even made a Semi final. That’s amazing.

– Highest Seeds To… Report: https://rball.pro/62ff50

The highest seed to win this year was Gaby as a #9 seed. Twice we saw an #11 seed make their way to the quarters (both times Jessica Parrilla ).

– Draw sizes for the season: https://rball.pro/98d393

The tour was relatively consistent last fall: 23-25 entrants per event. That bumped up a bit this spring to peak at 27 entrants for both AZ and Boston, but fell off in June to a season low 18 players in Charlotte.

– Complete list of Year-end title winners: https://www.proracquetballstats.com/lprt/lprt_year_end_titles.html

This text-page shows Longoria’s 14 titles, now double the next closest player (Michelle Gould).

– LPRT Tour History; https://www.proracquetballstats.com/lprt/lprt_tour_history.html

This is a years-running list of “important events” that have happened on tour. If you see a major event i’m missing by all means let me know and I’ll add it in.

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That’s it for today. Next post we’ll cover the top 10.

2025 51st Annual Outdoor Nationals & World Championships Recap

McDonald with three titles this weekend. Photo 2023 Outdoor Nats via Lara

We’ve just finished Outdoor Nationals for 2025, the 51st time this long-running “grand daddy of all Outdoor tournaments” event has been held.

Congrats to your Pro/Open winners on the weekend:

– Men’s Pro Doubles: Kane Waselenchuk and @Chris McDonald

– Women’s Open Doubles: @Victoria Rodriguez and @Katie Neils

– Mixed Open Doubles: @Jack McDonald and @Martha McDonald

– Men’s Pro Singles: @Danny Lavely

– Women’s Pro Singles: not held

Exec summary: Kane wins his second straight pro outdoor nationals title, this time with Florida legend McDonald, who claims his first ever title after decades of competing. Chris ended up with three titles on the weekend, while Martha adds a title nearly 50 years after her first Outdoor Nationals championship. A lack of ladies pros onsite this year led to the womens and mixed divisions being turned into “Open” divisions, though we’ll still load the champions into the database.

R2 Sports App home page for event: https://www.r2sports.com/website/event-website.asp?TID=47360

ProRacquetballStats.com Match Reports by Pro division (notification that the results have been loaded to the database):

– Men’s Pro Doubles: https://rball.pro/42d82e

– Women’s Pro Doubles: https://rball.pro/0eef63

– Mixed Pro Doubles: https://rball.pro/a8ebd5

– Men’s Singles: https://rball.pro/c726e6

– Women’s Singles: (not held in 2025)

Triple Crown Reports: (these show the winners of all Pro divisions at all WOR outdoor majors across time)

– Men’s Pro Doubles: https://rball.pro/j47

– Women’s Pro Doubles: https://rball.pro/2vv

– Mixed Pro Doubles: https://rball.pro/y43

– Men’s Pro Singles: https://rball.pro/86z

– Women’s Pro Singles: https://rball.pro/x8g

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Lets do a quick recap of the Pro/Open draws.

Men’s Pro Doubles: a small but star-studded draw of past champions whittled down to the two top seeds: Davis & Tucker (the 2018 and 2023 champs) and McDonald & Waselenchuk, who won his first title last year with Rocky. After playing together last year in Vegas and this year in California, Chris & Kane have gelled as a team and blew through the final, winning the title 4,4 to earn the surfboard.

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Women’s Open Doubles:

The ladies in attendance played a combo round robin event, and at the end the two teams who entered “Open” won their groups and met in the final. There, teenager Rodriguez and Arizonia Neils took out Onesti-Warren & Williams for the title.

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Mixed Open Doubles: The legendary @Martha McDonald teamed with younger son Jack to go undefeated in group play and then win the Mixed Open title in a walkover. Martha has been coming to Outdoor Nationals for 50+ years and had singles pro titles back in the 1970s.

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Men’s Singles: HoFamer Greg Solis made the final in his latest attempt to add a pro singles title to his resume, but he couldn’t overcome the top seeded @Danny Lavely.

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Other Major Draws in California:

– CPRT: Kane & Chris got the double win this weekend, taking out the same two teams they beat to win the Pro title to win the CPRT title as well.

– Men’s 75s: The always-tough lefty/righty pair of Patrick Allin and Lou Orosco took the combined 75+ draw.

– Men’s 100/Centurion: Alvaro Beltran & Knox La Rue took out the top seeds St. Clair & Berg in the semis before setting down favorites Hall & Rocky in the final.

– Men’s Open: It was all McDonalds in the Open final, as brothers Jack and Chris powered their way to the win.

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Thanks to the Tourney Directors Geoff Osberg and Jesus Ustarroz for putting this event on, and congratulations on your induction into the WOR Hall of Fame for your decade-plus of service here.

Thanks once again to all the sponsors.

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Next up?

We’ll do all the accounting for the Outdoor Cup series and publish a status of updated standings post Outdoor Nats later this week.

Per our handy master racquetball calendar … https://docs.google.com/…/1V6OTid6rZ356voXVkoV2sN7KMMb…

NMRA Masters is next weekend in Colorado Springs; this also serves as the IRF Senior International championships. Then, the last weekend in July is the National Senior Games and Mexican Juniors.

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WOR – World Outdoor Racquetball

2025 USA Racquetball Junior Nationals Recap

Naomi Ros with the triple crown at Junior Nationals. Photo via Ken fife

USA Racquetball held its 52nd annual Junior Nationals event last week on the campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and the event drew a solid field of top juniors from St Louis, San Antonio, Portland, Stockton, and other junior racquetball hot beds around the country.

The event has been held every year since 1974, save for the Covid year in 2020, and is one of the longest running events in the sport.

With this post, is official notification that the Junior Nationals results have been entered into the ProRacquetballStats.com database. For Juniors, we upload full bracket results for 21s,18s,16s, and 14s, but just load up winners and finalists for all age groups younger than 14U. For doubles, we load up just the finalists.

The best way to see Junior Singles winners is with the cross-year/cross-age group Matrix reports built into the site. They show all the winners for all age divisions going back to 1974. Here’s direct links for each Matrix report:

– Boys USA Junior National Singles Champion Matrix: https://rball.pro/mey

– Girls USA Junior National Singles Champion Matrix: https://rball.pro/cpf

Each full division draw can be accessed from the “event” pulldown after you enter either the Juniors or the Junior Doubles section. One Junior Nationals results in 18-20 singles draws plus another 15 doubles draws being entered into the database, so there’s a lot of new data here this week.

R2sports home page for the event, with all the full brackets: https://www.r2sports.com/tourney/home.asp?TID=46099

For 2025, congrats to your Boys Singles winners:

– Boys 21U: @DJ Mendoza

– Boys 18U: Eshan Ali

– Boys 16U: Vaishant Mangalampalli

– Boys 14U: Ayan Sharma

– Boys 12U: Ryan Joeckel

– Boys 10U: Michael Glenn

– Boys 10Udb: Elijah Machado

– Boys 8U: Jasur Pridatko

– Boys 8Umb: Saharsh Gorthy

– Boys 6UMB: no event in 2025

– Boys 8Umb: Zane Horner

– Boys 6Umb: Xavier De La Torre-Berrera

Congrats to your Girls singles winners:

– Girls 21U: Naomi Ros

– Girls 18U: Sonya Shetty

– Girls 16U: Aanshi Thakur

– Girls 14U; Shreya Chandel

– Girls 12U: Aaradhya Raja

– Girls 10U: Sloka Marivada

– Girls 10Udb: Sylvie Hatcher-Ross

– Girls 8U: Sylvie Hatcher-Ross

– Girls 8Umb: Sasha Rai

– Girls 6Umb: Almira Pridatko

Congrats to your Boys Doubles winners:

– Boys 21U: Cole Sendrey & DJ Mendoza

– Boys 18U: Eshan Ali & Juan Herrera II

– Boys 16U: Grant Williams & Evan Whitley

– Boys 14U: Lucas Frost-Biskup & Ayan Sharma

– Boys 12U: Aiden Townsen & Noah Jackola

– Boys 10U: Michael Glenn & Damien Gil

Congrats to your Girls Doubles winners:

– Girls 21U: Naomi Ros & Ava Kaiser

– Girls 18U: Victoria Rodriguez & Sonya Shetty

– Girls 16U; Aarya Shetty * Aanshi Thakur

– Girls 14U: Audrey Reed & Violet Kennedy

– Girls 12U: Aaradhya Raja & Yana Alegria

– Girls 10U: Maryam Bukhari & Sloka Marivada

And Congrats to your Mixed Doubles winners:

– Mixed 21U: Cole Sendrey & Naomi Ros

– Mixed 18U: Eshan Ali & Sonya Shetty

– Mixed 16U: Vaishant Mangalampalli & Aarya Shetty

– Mixed 14U: Ayan Sharma & Shreya Chandel

– Mixed 12U: Noah Jackola & Aaradhya Raja

– Mixed 10U: Michael Glenn & Sloka Marivada

(Apologies for any typos: these were hand typed into this post)

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Note: there are some combined divisions at 2025 nationals, especially in the 10s, 8s and 6s. I determined the champions when age groups were combined by looking at head to head results to “name” an age group champion. In some cases there are uncontested winners for younger entrants who competed with the next higher age group.

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Here’s some quick commentary on the Singles champions by grouping.

Boys Singles;

In 21U, Mendoza held off Sendrey in a battle of Texas junior IRT regulars to give Mendoza his first Junior title. The GOAT @Kane Waselenchuk was on hand to cheer on his pupil. in 18U Eshan Ali took his 6th career junior title. Vaishant Mangalampalli moved up as the reigning 14U champ and took 16U in his first shot. Ayan Sharma returned to the winner’s circle for the first time since 2018. Both the 10U and 12U winners were first timers; congrats to Michael Glenn and Ryan Joeckel. Jasur Pridatko repeated as 8U champ. Lastly the two multi/double bounce champs were first timers as well: Elijah Machado in 10UDB and then Gorthy, Saharsh in 8UMB.

Special recognition to Ash Murphy, who made the final in 8U, 8Umb and 10Udb. Also a shoutout to David Rada in 14U, who came in as the #30 seed out of a 32 player draw and made a run to the final as a complete unknown. They often say that in Junior draws, the hardest matches are the first round and the final, since kids show up out of nowhere and make huge runs quite frequently.

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Girls Singles quick recaps.

Reigning US Adult and 2024 18U champ Naomi Ros moved up to 21s and took the title, setting the stage for the possibility of 7 straight junior titles for Ros since her naturalization in the US. Sonya Shetty took 18U, her 5th national title. Aanshi Thakur repeated as 16U junior titleist. We had first time winners in both 14U and 12U in Shreya Chandel and Aaradhya Raja respectively. Marivada Sloka took 10U, her 3rd junior title. Sylvie Hatcher-Ross took both the 10Udb and the 8U title. Sasha Rai, 2-time defending 6Umb champ, moved up to take the 8Umb title. Lastly newcomer Almira Pridatko won the 6Umb.

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Multi-title winners

The following players took home the coveted “Triple Crown,” winning singles, gender doubles, and mixed doubles this year:

– Eshan Ali (18U)

– Ayan Sharma (14U)

– Michael Glenn (10U)

– Naomi Ros (21U)

– Sonya Shetty (18U)

– Aaradhya Raja (12U)

– Sloka Marivada (10U)

The following players took home the “double,” winning both Singles and a Doubles title in their age groups:

– DJ Mendoza (21U)

– Aanshi Thakur (16U)

– Shreya Chandel (14U)

These players took the “Double Double,” winning both Gender and Mixed doubles titles.

– Vaishant Mangalampalli (16U)

– Shreya Chandel

Phew. that’s it for Junior Nationals. Congrats to all the 2025 winners. The National team includes the two singles finalists and the doubles winners in each division; those players have first right of refusal to represent Team USA at Junior Worlds later this year in the Dominican Republic.

Next up on the racquetball calendar? 2025 Outdoor Nationals, teaming with 3WallBall this year in Huntington Beach! We’ll preview and recap that event as we always do.