Andree Parrilla loves Chicago; can he make some noise this weekend?
Photo 2019 US Open via Kevin Savory
One of the longer-running events on tour is this coming weekend in the Chicago-land area, as the tour visits a club it hasn’t played at in years for the 2026 Shamrock Shootout. They’re playing in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was site to the debut of the portable court back in 2008.
We’ve got a solid 36-pro draw with 17 of the top 20 players present, which will make for a fun opening couple of days of matchups.
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Let’s preview the draw. Here’s some notable qualifying matches that i’m looking forward to:
In the round of 32:
– two IRT vets in Sam Bredenbeck and Robbie Collins meet in the 16/17 seed match
– Alonso is back after a weekend off; he faces DJ Mendoza in a fun one
– WE get a rematch of last week’s Carrasco-Sendrey matchup
– WE also get a rematch of the great opening round match between Trujillo and Gastelum.
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round of 16:
– Lalo Portillo is back after a weekend off; he plays into Natera in the 8/9
– Montoya-Alonso is a great round of 16 match between two guys who can both get hot and get results
– Wonder kid Flores faces off against Parrilla once again; he beta him 1,3 two weeks ago, but may not be 100% this weekend.
– Manilla-Mar in the 7-10 could be an upset for the lefty.
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Projected Qtrs:
– Kane projects to play Portillo in my predictions; Portillo is an awkward player to play and who can score points, so tough round for Kane
– Montoya-Jake in the quarters is a hard hitter’s dream.
– Acuna/Parrilla could be an upset for the Mexican, who loves Chicago and has some of his best results here.
– Moscoso should cruise through Manilla
Semis: I like Kane over Montoya, and Moscoso over Parrilla, to give us what we want; another 1v2 Kane v Conrrado final.
Finals;
Moscoso has won four straight tourneys, and has beaten Kane 3 times in a row. Can he keep these streaks alive? It certainly didn’t look like it for the first 19 points of the Minnesota final … but Conrrado found a way to win.
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Doubles review
All the usual teams are here and together; even though there’s some compelling partnerships right now on tour, the final will likely come down to whoever wins the semis between newly crowned mMexican national champs Parrilla/Portillo and the Bolivian champs Moscoso/Carrasco. Look for Parrilla/Portillo to win the semis and get another win over Montoya/Mar in the final.
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Back in 2019, I saw a cool graphic showing the slow change over time of rankings of some IT thing; maybe it was market share of browsers or ranking of cell phone providers. After digging in, I found the site (Flourish.studio) and, what do you know, you can upload your own data. I created visual racing bar charts showing the Men and Women’s top 10s since the beginning of the tours in 1974, and those posts were one of the most popular I ever did.
@JT R Ball reached out this week and asked if I had thought about updating them … and I said, “Hey What a great idea!”
So, without further ado, here’s the two graphics, updated to the current rankings on both tours for the 2025-26 rankings.
Quick data caveats, since, well, this is Racquetball and no good deed goes published on the internet without someone complaining about it:
– These are End of Season top 10 lists. If you are a player who was ranked in the top 10 for a few weeks in a season 20 years ago and don’t see your name … don’t @ to tell me the data is wrong. Nobody captured mid-season top 10 data and I have no way of showing anything other than season ending top 10 ranks.
– In the The first few years of the tours, Basically there wasn’t a rolling ranking. The champions were determined by who won the season-ending Nationals event. That’s why the first few years look weird; i just took the Nationals finish and kind of jury-rigged a top 10.
Some fun facts:
– in 2019, there had only been 79 distinct players in the history of Pro racquetball to finish in the top 10 in any season. That number has now risen to 94 through this season, as we’ve had a ton of new faces make top 10 debuts in the last 5-6 years. Moscoso, Acuna, Jake, Montoya, Natera, Portillo, Adam, Carter, Martell, Trujillo? All new within the last few years, along with a slew of others.
– Same info for the Women: in 2019 there had been 97 women who had a top10 finish … now that number is up to 106. We haven’t really had that many new women debut that high in the last half decade. Gaby, Laime, Manilla, Barrios, Centellas, and this year Lotts is in the top 10.
Happy Friday. As always, if you can think of a cool application of this data that I should do or think about i’m always open to it.
Kane is in the driver’s seat atop the rankings … for now. Can he be caught? Photo via US Open 2019/Kevin Savory
I got a message recently from Felipe Mercado, asking if I could “cover” the IRT title race or explain it in more detail. Great idea. I write a quick points race summary after each IRT event, but it’s worth writing a larger missive to discuss where we are, how the race is going to be decided this year, and what’s at stake in the season’s final few events.
One of the first things the new International Racquetball Tour regime did upon taking over was to pivot back to a fall-to-spring schedule, as was in place for the first 50 years or so of the tour. This immediately led to a conundrum; should the tour award a shortened “2024-25” season just based on the first half of 2025’s events (there were just 3 events in the first six months of 2025), or should they go with a “super season” spanning a year and a half? The team went with Option B.
So, now as we sit in March of 2026, the tour is rolling towards the 6/30/26 official end of the 2025-26 season, and will soon be awarding the next season-ending titlist.
Quick level setting on points: for a regular Tier 1/IRT-700 event, the points awarded are as follows:
– 420 points for first place
– 280 points for second place
– 210 for the semis
– 140 for the quarters
– 70,35,18 for 16s, 32s, 64s.
(Note: the tour has had one IRT-800 level event; Tracktown, which adjusts the above scale slightly upwards. It’s possible one of the 3 remaining events also gets enough money to be an 800 level event, which would slightly alter this analysis).
The points basically follow the prize money: “IRT-700” means $700 for each round advanced. So, if you get to the semis, you’ve advanced 3 rounds and earn $2100. The winner gets a bonus for, you know, winning.
Given that there’s projected to be 12 Tier 1 events in the 18-month season, plus a slew of satellite events, the tour has decided that the best 10 results over the last 18 months for each player will determine their year end ranking. Satellite tournaments count as well; if someone wins a satellite event (worth 75 points) that result can replace a round of 16 loss (worth 70) or a round of 32 loss (worth 35) or even a missed Tier 1 event for the player. These events will absolutely help determine the rankings for players 3rd and below, and may factor into the top 10 race (an arbitrary cut-off but one that I have built reporting around for historical purposes), but the top two players are entirely about the Tier 1s.
The race for #1 is a two-horse race. Kane Waselenchuk currently has the lead with 2515 points, and Conrrado Moscoso is in second place with 2267 points. These two are more than 650 points ahead of the 3rd place @Andres Acuna
and 4th place Jake Bredenbeck ; the only way these two can get back into the race is if Kane & Conrrado both quit the tour tomorrow.
So, lets talk about where we are and what can happen. There’s some salient points to talk about before we play some what-if scenarios:
– The loss of the 2026 planned US Open in June means there’s just three tier 1s remaining: the Papa Nicholas Chicago event in two weeks time, the Player’s Championship in Fountain Valley in April, and Pro Nationals the first weekend of May in Montana.
– There will be exactly 12 Tier 1s included in the 18-month schedule.
– Moscoso got hurt in early 2025; he tweaked his knee in the round of 32 at last year’s Minnesota event and lost: this gave him a 35-point result and knocked him out of the next event.
– Moscoso recovered in time for the Sept 2025 World Singles & Doubles event … but ran into Kane in the round of 16 and lost, giving him a 70-point result.
– So, Moscoso netted just 105 points for these three events. Meanwhile, Waselenchuk won 2025 Minnesota, lost in qtrs of 2025 Chicago, and lost in the finals of World Singles and doubles for a combined 840 points to Moscoso’s 105 for those events. That’s a lot of points that Moscoso can “make up” with an extra six months of events to bolster his top 10 results. However, the loss of the US Open was critical; it took the total # of Tier 1s from 13 to 12, meaning Conrrado will have to “keep” one of these super-low results in his final tally. Even if he went to one of the two remaining satellites and wins it for a 75 point result, it will barely matter; he’s got to replace a 0, 35, and 70 result and at best he’ll only improve his 70-point result by 5 points assuming he advances deep into the 3 remaining Tier 1s.
Now, how about Kane?
– Well, Kane missed last year’s Golden State Open (to attend a wedding), and otherwise his lowest Tier 1 results are a qtrs injury-aided loss at last year’s Chicago event (140 ) and a semis loss in SoCal to Moscoso (210).
– So, Kane can make at least the qtrs in the remaining 3 events and improve upon both his 0 and his 140-point results. If he makes the finals of all three, he’ll replace all three of these results with higher-point totals.
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Ok that’s all fine and dandy, and probably confusing, but is Kane in jeopardy of losing the year end title race? Yes he is … but he’s in the driver’s seat in some respects. Here’s some scenarios:
Scenario 1: Conrrado wins all 3 remaining events and Kane makes the final in all three. Conrrado replaces his 3 lowest scores with 3 wins, while Kane does the same with three 280-point finals. The two players 10 best results will thus look like this:
– Moscoso: 7 wins, 2 semis, 1 round of 16. That would total 3464 per my projections.
– Waselenchuk: 3 wins, 6 finals, 1 semi: That would total 3215.
Scenario 2: Conrrado beats Kane in the final and wins 2 of the three remaining events, but Kane beats Conrrado in the final of the third:
– Waselenchuk: 4 wins, 5 finals, 1 semi: That would total 3355
Just that one flip of a win vs a final would be enough for Kane to secure the title. And, it won’t be close enough for Moscoso to bother going to a Satellite event to gain 5 points; it’ll be game over.
If Kane is upset in any of the 3 remaining events prior to the finals, the pathway for Conrrado to win the title correspondingly becomes easier but not a lock. Same goes for Moscoso: if he loses in an early round, he won’t have the opportunity to “replace” those March 2025 results with anything substantive, and Kane would then roll to the title.
So, the rest of the season is simple: Conrrado needs to win out to guarantee he is in control of his own destiny to get the title. And, if Kane can win one, he’ll almost guarantee his 16th pro tour title.
Here’s what I’m hoping for: Moscoso wins the next two over Kane in the finals, and we head to the Pro Nationals event with a “winner take all” scenario. We’ve had multiple seasons where the race wasn’t decided until the very last tournament, and in some cases the very last final of the very last tournament: Kane over Huczek in 2004 and again in 2006, Cliff in 2002, Sudsy in 1996, Kane over Rocky in 2015 being the most recent examples.
Can’t wait to see how the next couple of events play out, to see if we get that pressure-packed last event.
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I have a per-event rolling points XLS that emulates the IRT official rankings at this Google sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z6eg6NJT6fjGMfRRyKTNLShAiDoz0TzzmQCt1_SbNBo/edit?usp=sharing
Unfortunately, the Microsoft XLS formula I use to find the “best 10 results” doesn’t translate to Google’s formulas, so they’re broken online It’s too bad, because i put in a little “what-if” analysis section for the final three events that you can see online.
The actual running official IRT Rankings are here: https://irttour.com/rankings/
– Doubles: Rodrigo Montoya Racquetball & Javier Mar
TL/DR Executive Summary: Moscoso wins his 4th straight IRT event, but took a 15-0 donut from Kane while doing so.
R2 Sports App home page for event: https://www.r2sports.com/portfolio/r2-event.asp?TID=52146
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Let’s review the notable matches in the Singles draw.
Singles Match report in the PRS database: https://rball.pro/d06f93
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In the 32s:
– Garcia blanked Sam Bredenbeck in the opener before he made a match of it; the Argentine moves on 0,12
– Trujillo topped Miranda 13,10 in an expected solid, close game.
– Carrasco crushed Sendrey 9,1; Cole may have to go back to the drawing board if he doesn’t turn around these results.
– Carter crushed Mendoza 5,3 to send a message to us pundits who continue to count him out.
– Gastelum topped Collins 14,14 in a match that was as close as it sounds.
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In the 16s:
– Adam Manilla rebounded from a 15-1 stomping in game one to save match points against in game two and advance. Score: (1),14,9
– Bolivian U21 star Flores certainly made a statement, beating @andree Parrilla 1,4 after having lost to him twice last season 11-10. Wow.
– #4 Jake Bredenbeck got by Trujillo by the skin of his teeth, 11-9 in the breaker. Looks like Trujillo is ready to get his top-10 ranking back.
– The bottom half went chalk, with all four seeds advancing rather easily.
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In the Quarters
– Kane took out Manilla 4,10 as Adam the technician worked some points but couldn’t really challenge the king
– Flores took out Jake 8,12 to make the semis and setup a dream matchup with Waselenchuk
– Montoya trounced Acuna 7,5 as predicted on the IRT Club Fantasy fastbreak podcast.
– Moscoso cruised past Mar in game one 15-6 and Mar felt something in his back and forfeited to save himself for the doubles run.
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In the Semis
– Flores/Kane was one of two matches I watched with intent this weekend. Here’s my report.
In Game 1, Flores jumps out to early lead; Kane makes several uncharacteristic errors. The Bolivian has sneaky power, with mechanics eerily similar to Carlos Keller (no surprise, they’re both from Santa Cruz). Kane stepped up the pressure, jumped right back in; heavy balls, put-aways, and a couple of Flores balls left up and its 5-6. Flores got a couple aces but generally had a very low 1st serve percentage, not a recipe for winning. Kane continued to grind out points, jumped to 11-7. Flores back, nearly ties it at 10-11 down, but Flores just isn’t handling Kane’s lob serves, either skipping them or giving Kane 3rd shot kills in the front court. Flores buries an overhead splat forehand for some wow factor, but Kane got to game point first at 14-10. Flores somehow escaped a 12-14 rally to get the serve back. Suddenly Flores buries a ceiling ball off the back wall for 14-14. On the ensuing serve, Kane hits a swinging kill shot on the service return that had us gasping. At 14-14, Kane gains control of the rally and buries a backhand for the 15-14 win.
Second game, Flores’ body language is terrible, he loses two ill-advised appeals quickly, he’s over hitting … and he’s looking like the game is going to get away from him fast. Flores also looks tired, as he very well might since he played a Men’s Open match a few hours earlier in the day (he didn’t forfeit out of Men’s Open despite being in the Pro semis). It’s one-way traffic, as Flores’ mental letdown of letting game one go and his overall fatigue catches up to him and he can’t stop the Kane train. Teaching moments all around. Kane ends up winning the game 15-1, emblematic of a game that Flores checked out of early.
– From the bottom half, Moscoso wasn’t terribly troubled by Montoya, really showing what the gap is between himself, Kane, and the rest of the tour right now.
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The Finals was one of the more interesting matches i’ve ever seen. Again, I took notes as I watched. Here’s how it went.
Kane wins the toss, opens up drive serving and gets three very fast points. He mixes several aces, gets a couple of 3 shot rallies and is in complete control in the early part of game one, jumping out 8-0. He’s hitting absolute missile drive serves to Moscoso’s forehand that are unreturnable. The Bolivian finally calls time out at 0-9 down … this game is probably a lost cause already. The few rallies that Moscoso is getting into he’s error-prone and misses a slew of shots .. but this is as good as i’ve seen Kane serve in months. The normally athletic Moscoso has just one dive in the game … which indicates just how dominant Kane has been. 15-0 Kane win and he screams as if he’s just won a major title; he’s definitely got something to prove here and is playing with an intensity rarely seen.
Game two starts more of the same, he’s hitting the crack ace serve to his right side over and over. At 0-4 in the second, Moscoso finally scores on an ace to Kane’s forehand, ending a 19-point run. Amazing. Moscoso grinds it back to 4-4 but it looks like tenuous comeback. Moscoso settles down and the pair battle it out for most of Game 2, with Moscoso holding a slight lead throughout the mid game. Moscoso turned his ankle at 13-9 up, bad enough that Kane ran over to him, but after a brief break he quickly served out the game and we’re in the tiebreaker.
Kane jumps ahead again in the TB, but once again Moscoso grinds back, grabs the lead. At 6-3 up, Kane lands on his knee awkwardly and is very clearly hurt. He also takes a medical TO, but comes back barely able to put weight on the leg. Despite that, he guts out the rest of the game and even scores a few points as Moscoso makes some mental gaffes (a double fault on a lob serve?) and struggles to
put the game away. Eventually he serves out the tiebreaker and wins the match. final score: (0),9,7 in one of the weirdest matches I’ve ever seen. Kane could barely put weight on the knee and I’m kind of surprised he chose to even give it a shot and risk further injury, and it amazed me he was even able to score points given what he was dealing with.
Quick donut trivia: Here’s a list to every final in the history of the tour: https://rball.pro/000f20 . It’s just the 3rd time ever that the winner of a tour
final has taken a donut-against: it happened in the 1986 Ektelon Nationals final, when Yellen gave Hogan a donut but lost in five, and it happened at the 2009 Kentucky Pro-am, when Huczek donuted Mannino in the 4th to extend it to five but then lost the match.
Also, this is just the second donut of Conrrado’s career; the first was in this event last year, when he badly hurt himself in game one against Bobby Horn and played out the entire second game instead of forfeiting, losing 13,0. So, technically this is the first time Moscoso had a donut put on him when he was healthy and trying.
As an old friend once said … it only takes 26 to win.
With the win, Conrrado wins his 4th straight tournament and is now on an 18-match win streak on tour. That streak now includes 3 straight h2h wins against Kane … but by no means should anyone think that Moscoso now “owns” Kane. Not when Kane can turn it on like he did in Game 1 to not only win but to absolutely dominate.
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Points Implications of results
With the win, Conrrado continues to tighten the lead that Kane has at the top. Using the 10-best results logic that will determine the 2025-26 champ, Kane’s lead is now down to 243 points on Moscoso. Which sounds like a lot … but here’s the rub: there’s 3 tournaments left on the schedule, so Conrrado has those 3 events to replace three tourneys from March-April last year where he got hurt and had a round of 32 loss, a missed tourney, and a round of 16 loss. Just making the finals in the remaining 3 events represents a 735 point swing, more than enough to eclipse Kane. However, Kane has a zero result that he can replace as well, and if he wins one of the 3 remaining we’re going to be looking at a very, very close race. In fact, if Kane manages to win one of the 3 remaining and make the finals of the other two, I think that would guarantee him the year end title. The loss of the US Open suddenly makes the last 3 events incredibly important.
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.
Match report in the PRS database: https://rball.pro/31a568
Mar & Montoya cruised to a win over a depleted Moscoso & Carrasco in the final, which was played right after the singles match.
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Open Singles, other notable draws
Flores ended up not only staying in the Men’s Open singles draw but winning it. He had to play the semi just before playing Kane in the biggest match of his pro career … and it showed. I can’t blame these traveling South Americans for entering three draws and getting the most opportunities to make money though.
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Fantasy Racquetball Competition Wrap-up:
I had a banner weekend: my four picks in Fantasy were Trujillo, Flores, Montoya, and Moscoso. Three of my four made the semis, and I picked the correct winner. Probably my best fantasy showing yet.
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Thanks for all the streaming on the weekend, especially from broadcasters Carrie Reitmeier, Favio Soto, Pablo Fajre, and the entire IRTLive crew. Great job announcing the players from Minnesota legend Matt Miller.
We have a week’s break, then the IRT heads to Chicago for the Papa Nicholas Shamrock Shootout. After that, March also features Beach Bash, NMRA nationals, PARC, and the WTR in Louisiana. Great month.
Moscoso is on a 3-tourney win streak, can he keep it going? Photo US Open 2019, Photographer Kevin Savory
After a month of National championships and a satellite last weekend, we get a full Tier 1 stop at the University of Minnesota for the 2026 Minnesota Hall of Fame event.
Big draw this weekend, with 31 pros in the singles draw. Just two top 20 players aren’t here: Portillo fresh of his 1st Mexican national title and his fellow Mexican Jordy Alonso. Otherwise, the entire top 20 plus a big chunk of the 20-30 guys plus a slew of internationals are in town.
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Let’s preview the draw. Here’s some notable qualifying matches that i’m looking forward to:
In the round of 32:
– Garcia/Sam Bredenbeck is a tough one for both players, as one would expect in the 16/17 seed match.
– Trujillo is here again, and plays into a very tough Miranda in the opener.
– Sendrey and Carrasco meet again; they played in the 1st round of the Sioux Falls event a few weeks ago; will Cole have learned anything?
– Mendoza v Carter: DJ played great at USA Nationals; can he get an upset?
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round of 16:
– Waselenchuk v Garcia: would be a rematch of Sioux Falls round of 16 if Diego gets by the younger Bredenbeck brother. Kane handled him 5,9 then; would Diego be able to improve on that result? It just goes to show how tough it is to break out of that range of rankings.
– The 8/9 projects to be Manilla/Natera: Natera is coming off an upset early loss in Portland, while Manilla took out Lalo in the last event; advantage Adam.
– The Trujillo/Miranda winner takes on Jake, who’s fresh off a national championship and playing on his “home courts” so to speak. that’s a tough round of 16 for the big man.
– Portland’s champ and everyone’s favorite dark horse plays into Andree Parrilla … who beat him 11-10 twice in the span of a couple weeks last year. Flores just took out Acuna and one would think he could beat Parrilla as well, but he has to get over that mental hump.
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Projected Qtrs:
– Kane over Manilla in an all-lefty battle
– Flores over Jake: might as well stick to my dark-horse upset guns.
– Montoya over Acuna: Even though Acuna is the higher ranked player I think Montoya is the better player.
– Moscoso over Mar: fun fact; these two first played at Junior Worlds in 2014 as 18U. Other players at that event? Mercado, Acuna, Iwaasa, Manilla, Mar, and Garay. Phew; that was a stacked event.
Semis:
– Kane over Flores: remember, Flores took a game off of Kane in March 2024 in their first meeting, the first time people really took notice of the Bolivian. Would love to see another matchup to see what happens now.
– Moscoso over Montoya: would love to see this firepower semi.
Finals: another Moscoso vs Kane meeting. We’ve gotten it twice in two tournaments, and it’d be only fitting if we got another one. Their last meeting was a dominant 9,3 win for the Bolivian, who seems like he’s turning the mental corner against the long-time #1 player. Based on what I saw in Sioux Falls, I’m predicting another Conrrado win.
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Doubles review
Mar & Montoya just got upset in the Mexican nationals by Parrilla/Portillo, but there’s no Portillo here this weekend, so they are the #1 seeds and favorites. There’s some fun teams in the draw: Flores/Martell, the young-gun mexican team of Gastelum/Trujillo, Sendrey/Mendoza, the Bredenbecks playing together, Manilla/Parrilla, the Argentine national team of Garcia/Miranda, and the rising Bolivian team of Moscoso/Carrasco.
All will be gunning for Montoya/Mar, but none can get them.
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Jhonathan Flores with a big win to take the Pelham title. Photo via IRT IG
Pelham Memorial Tourney of Champions quick recap
There was an IRT-600 level satellite last weekend with some very solid international players making the trip up early to get in two IRT events along with next weekend’s Minnesota HoFame event; lets do a quick recap.
The Pelham Memorial in Portland has served as a Tier 1 in the past but has downgraded over the past couple years so as (per my understanding) to give more to the charities it supports. This year, the 600-level means that half the top 8 can enter along with anyone outside the top 8, which gave us a 21-man strong field.
Reminder: we don’t load non-Tier 1 events into the PRS database.
Your top 4 seeds here were Acuna, Natera, Carter, and Martell. They were set to face a stiff challenge from a slew of South Americans who made the long flight up. Lets recap what happened.
From the top half, #1 Acuna cruised into the semis, where he faced #4 Martell. Martell got a very solid win over #5 Miranda in the quarters, making this trip worthwhile since he missed Mexican Nationals for it. Acuna cruised past Martell in the semis to make the final from the top-side.
Meanwhile, the seeds in the bottom half ran into South American trouble early, as #2 Natera was taken out in the quarters by Diego Garcia, and #3 Thomas Carter was dominated by Bolivian Jhonatan Flores in the other quarter. In a battle of two of my favorite dark horses, Flores topped Garcia 7,8 in the bottom semi to move into the final.
There, Flores didn’t seem too troubled by Acuna, winning 9,6 to take the title. Flores has mostly been ousted of IRT tournaments lately by the likes of Waselenchuk and Parrilla, but Acuna is by far the biggest scalp he’s taken so far in his pro career, and sets him up nicely from a confidence perspective for Minnesota in a few days’ time. Not to spoil the Minnesota Preview, but Flores’ seed and pathway gives him a solid chance to go deep.
Flores also entered in the Men’s Open singles draw (instead of doubles), winning that over former Bolivian junior Ezequiel Subieta for a dual singles title winning weekend.
In Doubles, the Argentine national doubles team Miranda/Garcia took the title over Alan Natera and super-sponsor Mark Frank.
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Next up; Minnesota. We’ll be publishing a podcast for the IRT club later this week and I’ll do a preview once we have the draws and matchups.
Moscoso gets a dominant win over Kane for his 12th career title. Photo unk from Bolivian IRIS
Congrats to your Pro winners on the weekend:
– Singles: Conrrado Moscoso
– Doubles: @Eduardo Portillo & @Andree Parrilla
TL/DR Executive Summary: Moscoso wins his 12th career title in dominant fashion, while Portillo and Parrilla get a solid win in the lead-up to Mexican Nationals in a few weeks.
R2 Sports App home page for event: https://www.r2sports.com/portfolio/r2-event.asp?TID=51976
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Let’s review the notable matches in the Singles draw.
Singles Match report in the PRS database: https://rball.pro/16c211
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In the 32s:
– Garcia took out Sam Bredenbeck, but needed a breaker to do so.
– Trujillo’s return proved fruitful, taking out Gastelum in the 32s and (as we’ll see later on) winning the Men’s Open title.
– Parrilla was pressed by the Canadian Connell but moved on.
– Carrasco gave Sendrey a setback 11,9.
– Former touring pro Pratt gave Portillo a lot more than he wanted in a round of 32 match but fell in two.
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In the 16s:
– My two favorite players to choose for upset wins early (Garcia and Flores) ended up playing the tourney’s two top seeds, and neither came much close to an upset. Kane beat Garcia 5,9, while Moscoso beat Flores 13,8 to move on. As it turned out, this was the closest match Moscoso would have in South Dakota.
– Natera made a statement against Alonso in the 8/9 game, cruising to a win.
– Trujillo pressed Parrilla but fell 12,13.
– Manilla got a great win, topping Portillo 9,7 to move on.
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In the Quarters
– Kane blew past Natera 5,2
– Parrilla dominated his long-time Rival Montoya 9,6
– Bredenbeck did not seem troubled by Mar 8,7
– Moscoso cruised past Manilla 5,2.
This setup a pure chalk semis.
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In the Semis
– Kane utterly destroyed Parrilla 2,0
– Moscoso wasn’t too troubled by Jake and won 6,9
In the Finals, we got the match most were looking for; 1v2, Kane v Conrrado. Legacy champ versus the up and coming possible replacement. The pair met in the semis of the SoCal Open in December, with Moscoso putting together a comprehensive game one and holding on for dear live to win in two .
On this day, Moscoso looked unstoppable. Game one was close for a while, but instead of Kane pulling away after a long mid-game period of closeness, it was his opponent, who turned a close game into a 15-9 win. In game two, it was one way traffic. Conrrado could do no wrong; he blitzed service returns, he hit his lines, he put away pinch shots, he played great defense, and Kane had no answers. Conrrado won game two 15-3 to take the title. Its Conrrado’s 3rd straight title, 14 match wins in a row, and his 12th in his career, tying him with DLR for 12th all time.
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Points Implications of results
With the win and with Acuna’s missing the event, Moscoso edges a bit closer to Kane and now sits in 2nd place. I’ve got them about 400 points apart, which seems like a lot, but the way the tour is going to determine the 2025-26 champion makes this race a ton closer.
At the end of June, presuming the US Open happens, the tour will have had somewhere in the range of 13-14 Tier 1s in that time along with a bunch of satellites. But, only the best 10 results will contribute to your final ranking. So, Right now Conrrado trails Kane by a ton of points, but their Tier 1 results since Jan 2025 look like this:
– Kane: 3 wins, 2 finals, 1 semi, 1 missed event
– Conrrado: 3 wins, 0 finals, 2 semis, 1 round of 16, 1 round of 32, 1 missed
So, if Conrrado has the opportunity to turn those last three results into a bunch of semis and finals, even if he doesn’t win out between now and June he’s got a ton of opportunity to catch up. This title race may very well come down to the last event.
Elsewhere in the top 10: Jake also jumps Acuna for 3rd, meaning that if i’ve got my spreadsheet estimate right, Acuna plays into Kane in the semis at the next event. Also, Natera now moves into 8th ahead of Lalo, Carrasco is up to 14th, and Gastelum drops down to 16.
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.
Match report in the PRS database: https://rball.pro/6d76e5
This was a super fun draw. Two legends flew up to SD to play in Alvaro Beltran and Rocky Carson and they put on a show. Beltran teamed with the young phenom Flores and nearly took out the Montoya/Mar top pair, losing 11-10 in the quarters. Eventual winners Parrilla/Portillo barely got out of the first round, advancing over the Bredenbeck brothers by 14,14. Meanwhile, the legendary Carson teamed with lefty Adam Manilla and went on a huge run, upsetting the #2 seeds and making the finals before falling 14,7.
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Open Singles, other notable draws
– My two favorite youngsters Trujillo and Flores made it to the Open final, where they played a barn burner won by Trujillo 11-7 in the third, a pretty significant win for a player who’s taken some time off, and over a guy who a lot are looking at as the best of the next generation of players.
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Fantasy Racquetball Competition Wrap-up: Sam Murray is back on top after pipping me in the results this weekend.
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Thanks for all the streaming on the weekend, especially from broadcasters Favio Soto, Steve Schulze, Pablo Fajre and the IRTLive crew
We’ve got one big event each weekend this month: Canadian Selection event next weekend, then USAR Nationals, plus Mexican Nationals is sometime in Feb, and then we get another IRT Satellite at the end of the month.
Trujillo back after an extended absence.
Photo US Open 2021 via Kevin Savory
One of the longest running events in the land, and one of the most important and most popular events on the Men’s schedule each year is upon us: the 46th annual Lewis Drug Pro Am in sunny, warm Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
This player favorite provides great hospitality and camaraderie and is always one of the best attended events on the calendar. This year is no different, with 35 singles pros and a slew of legends playing doubles only making their way to Sioux Falls. Thanks as always to tournament director and part IRT owner Mark Gibbs for making this event happen year after year.
top20 players missing include #2 Andres Acuna (out for a travel issue) and #13 Argentine Gerson Miranda. Past that, the entire top 20 and a bunch of the 20-30 ranked players are here, making this a really solid draw top to bottom.
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Let’s preview the draw. Here’s some notable qualifying matches that i’m looking forward to:
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In the round of 32:
– Right off the bat, the 16/17 is a banger, with Diego Garcia taking on hard-hitting Sam Bredenbeck. I’m always favoring Garcia to make deep runs in events on account of his international success; lets see if he can take the first step.
– Montoya takes on Emir Martinez, a doubles specialist veteran from Mexico who used to have solid success on the old WRT.
– Erick Trujillo is back after some time away; he’s seen his ranking plummet and he has to face tough countryman Diego Gastelum first round.
– Cole Sendrey, fresh from World Doubles in December, gets veteran Bolivian Kadim Carrasco to start. If Sendrey wants to move up in the rball world, this is the kind of match he needs to win.
– Former Bolivian junior champ and now DC suburb resident Ezekiel Subieta faces off against Javier Mar in a tricky match.
– World 16U junior finalist Santiago Castillo makes his IRT debut against Adam Manilla, who’s been pulling double duty helping with tour operations and trying to play. A distracted Manilla could take a shock loss here.
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round of 16:
– The two players I always favor to get upsets (Diego Garcia and Jhonathan Flores) are routing right into the #1 and #2 seeds here in Kane and Conrrado, which takes away some of the fun. Anyone else in the draw, i’d think about picking an upset, but these two would have to pull a massive upset to move on.
– Alonso/Natera in the 8/9 could be a fun one.
– Parrilla takes on the Gastelum/Trujillo winner.
Otherwise the 16s looks pretty straight forward for the upper seeds this week.
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Projected Qtrs:
– Kane over Alonso: I will say this, as i said on the podcast. If Kane is to lose this weekend, it’ll be highest likelihood in this QF match here, against a guy whose beaten him in the past and in the second of a back to back round day. Kane’s got to win his 16s against a tough opponent in Garcia, then rest, then recover, and then play another guy who can play him tough.
– In the 4/5 Montoya vs Parrilla for about the 1,000th time in their long careers.
– Bredenbeck plays into Mar this event. Mar has a couple wins over Jake, but Jake beat him in Sept, so advantage USA
– Moscoso, if he gets past Flores, has to fend off Portillo in the quarters, a trouble spot versus a player who gets wins every time he shows up.
Semis:
– Kane over Montoya; I just don’t think Montoya has the consistency to beat Kane, despite having the athleticism and power.
– Moscoso over Jake: too much firepower
Finals; So, last time we saw Conrrado-Kane the Bolivian pitched a near perfect game in game one to blow away Kane, then held him off for a win. Can he do it again? We have a new ball in SD that should play faster, plus concrete walls, which could make for some fireworks. Nonetheless, if kane gets here i’m favoring him to win.
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Doubles review
Love seeing Alvi and Rocky in the draw; they’ll shake things up. The top half of the draw is stacked; if Montoya/Mar can get past Alvi and Flores in the quraters, they’ll cruise to the win. On the bottom half, I love what Rocky and Adam might do to the field and like them for the final.
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Happy New Year from Pro Racquetball Stats and Todd Boss. It ahs been a tumultuous year for the Men’s Pro tour and the sport in general. Here’s a quick run through the seminal events to this observer of the 2025 year, along with some commentary/Retrospective after the fact.
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– 1/21/25: The World Team Racquetball concept debuted at the 2024 3WB event is officially pulled underneath the IRT umbrella, with the blessing of Mike
Coulter. Mike Kinkin will become the president of the WTR. The group plans WTR events at each of the three outdoor majors in addition to other 2025 spots.
In retrospect, this announcement didn’t have the impact we thought it might at the time. WTR did run an event at the 2025 Warhawk Open, but it was mostly Amateur teams (albeit with fantastic names). That event was overshadowed by fixture congestion that badly impacted the attendance of both the Warhawk Open and the Beach Bash outdoor major, which led to bruised egos amongst the various event directors involved. This problem, coincidentally, returns again in 2026, as the two events will conflict again and will overlap with the first weekend of the Pan Am games. We just have to figure out how to stop this from happening year after year.
– 1/21/25: the new IRT commissioner Dave Negrete wants to revert back to some of the tour rules that were the norm during his time. Most notably, he wants
to return to protected top 8 seeds into the round of 16 and to go back to a fall-to-spring multi-year season. This may end up meaning that the 2025 “season”
is just six months long, comprising just those events that are held between the beginning of the year and the August World Singles and Doubles event.
In retrospect, we have not seen the “top 8 get byes into the 16s” but we have seen the conversion of the schedule to a fall-to-spring. Instead of giving a 2025 half-season champ, they decided to have a super-sized 18-month season to determine the 2025-26 champion this coming June.
– 2/28/25: Dan Jaskier, owner and President of the Glass Door Swim & Fitness club in Lombard, Illinois, announces that the club is closing after 48 years.
The 3/16/25 tournament will be the last major pro stop at the club, ending a decades-long association with both pro tours.
Update: there was a Nov 2025 post on the Glassdoor Facebook page intimating that the club was possibly re-opening. I have no idea if they’ve remodeled the inside, who’s involved, or if there’s the possibility of the return of the Geoff Peters legacy event that was one of the most popular stops on tour. IRT commissioner Negrete lives in the Chicago area, so i’m sure he’s on top of it.
-3/6/25: The IRT introduces the “IRT Club,” a monthly subscription service that gives access to a 2nd stream plus other benefits. https://irttour.com/irt-club/
Notes: this is one of the new ideas from the new IRT ownership group, and is spearheaded by Adam Manilla. They offer fantasy racquetball and a new podcast series hosted by yours truly alongside Brian Pineda. It’s $15/month and also gives access to alternate streaming at IRT events.
– 3/21/25: Months after Swain’s 10/4/24 announcement, the USAR officially announces the 2026 US Open return in June to Missouri State University.
Notes: in the months since, we’ve seen a couple of updates from the organizers, and all organizations are working as if this event is happening. So, make plans to visit Missouri in June 2026.
– 3/23/25: Cliff Swain and Jeff Collins release a new video on the US Open. They’ve confirmed dates (June 10-14th 2026). Details include:
– Portable court is to be used, will be at the Springfield Expo center
– 12 courts at Missouri state University
– all within 5mins of each other; hotel, university, showcourt
– Richard Eisemann onboard as tourney coordinator, Tillbury hospitality/vip liaisons.
– Straight draw; no qualifiers in pros
– going to old-school scoring 3/5 to 11
– Dedicated referee staff on showcase on court; 5 officials planned
– winners ref on amateur side.
– Looking to raise $300k. Gives breakdown of what that revenue goes for: $40k IRT, $40k LPRT purses, $80k court, $50k facility rental
Notes: the transparency and advance planning is refreshing. Putting out these numbers in plain sight for those who have consistently questioned why the portable court isn’t constantly in use should resolve criticism of event planners. It costs a ton to transport, install, configure, tear-down, store, and insure the court.
– 4/18/25: Mike Coulter of 3WB publicly announces that the 3WallBall in Las Vegas has to be “paused” in 2025 due to the drastic rise in costs that the economy has seen in the early parts of 2025. They’re looking for a site in Southern California to host the 2025 version of the event on courts that can be rented, not built.
Retrospect: the writing was on the wall for this announcement for a while; costs and inflation have crushed the country, attendance has dwindled at 3WB for a bit, and it stopped being a viable tournament for Coulter to host. My big worry with something like this is, once Mike loses the spot on the schedule with the hotel, it’s going to be doubly difficult to ever get it back. I hope we haven’t seen the last of 3WB in Vegas, but don’t have high hopes.
– 5/3/25: #5 Alan Natera has a knee operation. Per Natera, he had knee arthroscopy, ACL, and meniscus reconstruction. He had been playing with pain for months and it was time to do it before it got worse. No word on recovery time or how long he’ll be out, but the next scheduled event isn’t until September. Update: Alan plays in the early September 2025 World Singles & Doubles.
This injury/surgery was well timed for Natera, who didn’t miss a ton of events and still is maintaining his top 10 status. He’s taken some tough losses as he’s stuck in the 8/9 seed spot right now, part of which may still be due to him testing out the knee. I’ve had multiple knee operations, and in one case it took me two years to return to the court.
– 5/8/25: Mike Coulter/3WB announces that 2025’s Outdoor Nationals will join forces with 3WB for 2025.
Commentary: for a few weeks this looked like a dagger for the sport’s reputation … but read on for an update in early August.
– 8/7/25: IRT releases its fall/spring slate of events and its massive: there’s nearly 20 full stops and satellites planned, a return to Mexico, and a return to a number of old stops that have lost their sponsors over the years. Great news.
In the months since, the slate has been pared a bit, but there’s still been a ton of IRT-350 satellite events held and the Tier 1 slate is bigger and better than it has been in years. The new ownership group is having a major impact on the tour.
– 8/7/25: Racquetball gets back into the 2027 Pan Am Games! Despite not being included in the original slate of games IRF President Osvaldo Maggi had been working with Pan Am behind the scenes and secured a return of the sport today.
Commentary: initially, the loss of racquetball from the Pan Am games had been predicted for years by insiders, and it would have been a real disappointment for the sport. Peru took over as host from Colombia , and when Lima hosted these same games in 2019 they had Racquetball … but for some reason chose to initially eliminate it this time around. All due credit to Maggi for politicking behind the scenes and making this happen.
This is one of those seminal events that has outsized impact; if we’re out of the Pan Am Games, we as a sport may lose accreditation with our own USOPC, which cuts funding and reduces our legitimacy as a sport. I think we’re well past any pursuit of getting into the Olympics at this point in the sport’s history (and, lets be honest, when the sport was ignored for the 1984 Olympics in LA, and again in 1996 in Atlanta … both big-time racquetball towns and at the absolute height of our sport’s popularity and participation, we should have realized there was never a shot), but the Pan Am games still remained the highest honor we had internationally, and we hold onto participation for one more cycle.
– 8/8/25: Bobby Horn, who attempted a comeback last season, undergoes shoulder surgery
Note: Negrete’s re-involvement brings back a ton of connections he maintained from 20 years ago, and the group is adding new major sponsors like the Black & White and Frank Hotels.
– 10/21/25: Pro Kennex announces that they’re reuniting with long-time PK player Kane Waselenchuk.
Notes: The two parted ways in Sept 2021 when a Pandemic-
afflicted company and Waselenchuk couldn’t come to an agreement on outstanding payments as the tours cancelled events for nearly a year. It bad at the time, but the two sides buried the hatchet and are working together again. Kane was reportedly using a blacked-out Gearbox to compete and now gets his trusty old sticks back.
– 10/29/25: 3-time champ Daniel De la Rosa reportedly has his PPA contract terminated for lack of performance. Will he return to Racquetball?
Notes: this was an ill-kept secret in the pickleball world, but as of this writing we haven’t seen DLR return to any known racquetball stuff. And, in the most recent post on his page he had a ton of hashtags for MLP, so maybe DLR has negotiated his way back to a pay as you go contract with the PPA instead of the salary based one. Either way, he hasn’t played a pro event since Jan 2024, but is the reigning US National singles champion. Will DLR defend his title? Well, there is a PPA event the same weekend as USAR Nationals, so he’d have to skip it … but if he’s not under contract it won’t matter. We’ll see what happens.
– 12/7/25: Erick Trujillo has missed every event for the past 6 months; is he officially stepping back? He’s now a 5.5 DUPR rated pickleball competitive player; could he be making a push towards pro pickleball instead?
comments: Trujillo’s DUPR rating is on the rise, but I don’t see him traveling to any US-based events thus far. It’s also possible that he’s made the very rational decision that losing in the 16s at IRT events isn’t worth the money it takes to get there.
– 12/20/25: Mike Kinkin is named the President of FormulaFlow Racquetball. He joins forces with Mauricio Zelada’s budding racquet manufacturer
Notes: this is an interesting move; FormulaFlow is now one of 3-4 remaining manufacturers in the space. I haven’t had a chance to catch up with Kinkin about the move or what they plan, but it is good to see a brand pushing further into the sport rather than walking away from it.
– 12/29/25: IRT announces that the new ball of the tour is the Formula Flow Blue. This replaces the thicker, slower Gearbox ball.
Notes: no word yet on how the FF ball plays; is it faster, slower, thicker, bouncier? No idea.
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Phew; that’s it. Did I miss any major events worth noting?
A double for Moscoso, and a win over kane. Photo unk from Bolivian IRIS
Congrats to your Pro winners on the weekend:
– Singles: @Conrrado Moscoso
– Doubles: Moscoso & @Kadim Carrasco
TL/DR Executive summary: Moscoso gets a big win over King Kane, then finishes off the event for his 11th career singles title, then gets the upset win over top seeds Montoya/Mar for the double in Fullerton.
R2 Sports App home page for event: https://www.r2sports.com/website/event-website.asp?TID=50749
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Let’s review the notable matches in the Singles draw.
Singles Match report in the PRS database: https://rball.pro/8322db
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In the 32s, no real upsets. We had a couple closer games from Gatica and Bear, but otherwise the seeds held.
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In the 16s, a couple of notable results:
– #9 Portillo topped #8 Natera in two closer games; not an upset for me necessarily, as Portillo’s ranking is more about his limited schedule than his talent.
– #7 Mar crushed Alonso 6,5 for another statement win defining the top 8 versus the next 8.
– Biggest match of the round: Thomas Carter gets a career best win over Montoya i11-9 in the breaker.
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In the Quarters
– Waselenchuk was pressed by Lalo in game one, then cruised to win 10,1
– Moscoso destroyed the elated to be there Carter 5,2
– Parrilla dominated Jake 7,4 to move into the semis; this was a pretty solid win for Andree, something he followed up on in the next round, and is part of a pattern for the SLP product of having spurts of success on tour.
– the best match of the round was Mar-Acuna, which was back and forth and featured some really fun rallies especially at the end, as Acuna pulled it out 11-9 to move on.
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In the Semis
– The match of the event was Kane vs Conrrado, and the Bolivian put on a show. He ran of 12-straight points unanswered in game one, with 4 service winners and another 6 3-point rally kill shots wherein he missed just one first serve. Kane had no answers, either getting handcuffed on the serves or flailing them to the ceiling defensively. Kane did a better job in game two and looked to be pushing towards a breaker, but Moscoso held firm, and got a come from behind win 15-14 to advance. It’s awfully hard to beat someone who’s hitting 160mph bullet first serves on concrete without ever missing, and that’s what we saw all weekend from Conrrado.
– Parrilla improved to 5-2 lifetime against Acuna on tour to move into the final.
In the Finals, Conrrado picked up where he left off, giving Andree a rare finals donut in game one before taking the title with ease.
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Points Implications of results
With the win, Conrrado moves into #2 on tour. Other top players will move down a spot, while Montoya’s early loss dumps him to #6. No other real movement of import amongst the top 16, even given all the missing junior players here.
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.
Match report in the PRS database: https://rball.pro/5542be
It’s been a minute since we had a real Pro doubles draw; not since March in Lombard has the tour done one, mostly because all the events in the interim have been combined events where the prize money that would have gone to doubles ended up going to the ladies, or to Mixed pro.
Moscoso, clearly feeling his oats this weekend, carried partner Carrasco over the top seeds Montoya & Mar to claim the title.
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Open Singles, other notable draws
– Diego Gastelum topped fellow round of 32 loser Gatica for the Open title, taking the big RR event.
– Bear & Alonso took out top SoCal outdoor team Myers & St. Clair for the Open Doubles title.
– Arizona’s Damien Zamora took the 35-50+
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Fantasy Racquetball Competition Wrap-up
We don’t know the results of the IRT Club Fantasy FastBreak competition this past wekeend, but yours truly (who was in 2nd place) definitely took Moscoso to win, so i’m expecting big things.
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Thanks for all the streaming on the weekend, Thanks to the tourney sponsors, and thanks to the players for supporting tournament racquetball.
