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