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Canadian National Doubles Wrap-Up

Saunders adds to her impressive career totals.

Congratulations to your 2019 Racquetball Canada National Doubles titlists:
Men: Samuel & Tommy Murray
Women: Jen Saunders & Danielle Drury.

r2sports link: https://www.r2sports.com/website/event-website.asp?TID=30409

This is the 4th Canadian national doubles title for Samuel Murray, and a first for his brother … who was the losing finalist each of the last four years running. Meanwhile, this is Saunder’s 13th title, and she inches closer to the record for most National doubles titles with her former partner and fellow Canadian Josee Grand’Maitre, who has 15 titles. Drury wins her 2nd title.

All Canadian Men’s Open Doubles titlists from 1975: http://rball.pro/BEE33C

All Canadian Women’s Open Doubles titlists: http://rball.pro/B26E86

Here’s a quick recap of the event, which is now live in the www.proracquetballstats.com database.

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Men’s doubles:
Match report in the PRS database: http://rball.pro/3AB576

There were 7 teams. In the semis, the two Murray brothers (Samuel Samuel Murray and Tommy Murray ) upset the #1 seeded Coby Iwaasa and Trevor Webb in a tiebreaker, while the Landeryou brothers ( James Landeryou and Tim Landeryou) took out Nicolas Bousquet and Pedro Castro in a tiebreaker.

So it was two brother teams in the final; there the Murrays staged a great comeback to take game one 17-15 (remember, in Canada its win-by-2 in all games). The Landeryous took game two, but then fell apart in the tiebreaker.

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Women’s Doubles:

Match Report in PRS database: http://rball.pro/35B3E1

There were four teams, so they played round robin. The #1 seeded team of Christine Richardson and Michele Morissette was upset by the #3 seeded team of Jen Saunders and Danielle Drury in the RRs en route to their 3-0 finish and the 2019 National title.

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The doubles champions for Canada qualify to represent the country in the Pan Am Games later this year, and will go towards qualification for 2020’s PARC and Worlds. We can’t say however that these exact teams will be in Lima later this year though, because Canada only qualified two men and two women to the Pan Am games (see http://www.internationalracquetball.com/xviii-pan-american…/ for the roster qualification spots). So likely the two singles qualifiers will team up to play doubles for Canada in Peru.

For Canada … now starts the singles competition. We’ll post that preview and recap separately (the pre-view likely before you see this).

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Canadian National Selection Event #1 Wrap-up

Sam Murray takes the selection Men’s event (photo via Rball Canada)

… and Lambert takes the Women’s draw.

Racquetball Canada

During the Thanksgiving weekend in the US, there was good racquetball being played both north and south of the border. First tourney Review: the Canadian National Singles Selection event #1.

R2sports draw link: http://www.r2sports.com/website/event-website.asp?TID=29942

I have been capturing these Canadian National selection events, as well as Mexican Selection events into my staging data but have not loaded them to the Amateur database. Instead the Amateur database just shows the champions of the annual “National” tournaments. Especially with the Mexican selection events (which determine who has been going to international events instead of the National champs as of late), i’m debating whether to enter the data into the database since they’re top-level competitions. I’m open to suggestions.

In the meantime, congrats to Samuel Murray and Frederique Lambert on their wins on the weekend. both entered as #1 seeds and pretty much the current unquestioned #1 players in Canada. There were few surprises in the draws, which mostly went according to chalk. Notable results to me:
– Pedro Castro just barely squeaked by Nicolas Bousquet 15,14 in the 4/5 seed quarter; very close matches. (Note: Canada plays win-by-2, so that score isn’t a typo; final score was 17-15, 16-14).
– Tim Landeryou committed Canadian racquetball fratricide, ousting his younger brother James Landeryou in the quarters.
– #2 seed Coby Iwaasa took the first game off of Murray in the final before falling in a rematch of the 2018 Canadian Nationals final. Iwaasa played great at Worlds and made the final of the WRT event in Calgary last month and looks to be nearly fully returned to the scene after a 3 year layoff.

On the Women’s side:
– Danielle Drury took out #4 seed Alexis Iwaasa in the quarters; the sole deviation from chalk seeding in the event.
– #3 seed Christine Richardson was not able to follow-up on her career amateur best result and fell in the semis.
– The Ageless Jennifer Jen Saunders made the final, losing in two to Lambert. Saunders has made the final of Canada Women’s Nationals an astounding EIGHTEEN straight years, winning 10 of those 18 finals.

These two results are big first steps for Murray, Lambert, Iwaasa and Saunders qualifying for the big 2019 international events. The annual Pan American Racquetball Championships of course, but the big event of 2019 is the quadrennial Pan American Games, which are including Racquetball for the 6th time in event history.