{"id":151,"date":"2018-10-08T03:03:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T03:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2018-11-09T13:46:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T13:46:23","slug":"us-open-irt-mens-pro-doubles-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/08\/us-open-irt-mens-pro-doubles-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open IRT Mens Pro Doubles Wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Congrats to Alvaro Beltran<\/strong> and Daniel De La Rosa<\/strong> on their US Open Title.<\/p>\n

Here’s the match report for the tourney: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2C188Lc<\/p>\n

Here’s a review of the event.<\/p>\n

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\nFirst off… for racquetball fans of top-level tournament play, you cannot ask for more out of this doubles draw. Out of the 22 matches in this draw, 14 went to tiebreaker.\u00a0 13 of the first 19 went tiebreaker, including two 11-10 matches. Every time we run another top-end doubles tourney, we seem to get more and more great play. I love this new focus on doubles in the Men’s Pro game.<\/p>\n

An opinion from this observer: I wish the doubles qualified into the 16s and not the quarters: if there’s 23 teams entered it does seem unfair to give byes to four teams and force everyone else to play 2 or even 3 qualifiers.\u00a0 I’m not sure how this decision was arrived at, if its driven by court availability (possibly) or just attempting to protect the top seeds (also a distinct possibility), but the 5th seeds really have a massive disadvantage as compared to the 4th seeds.<\/p>\n

Here’s some notable 1st and 2nd round events for me:
\n– First, we have to start with the unbelievable match we saw in the round of 32; The 5th overall seeds\u00a0Jake Bredenbeck<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Jose Diaz<\/a><\/strong>, who together as a team have made 3 finals in the last year, faced off against a team of 17-yr old phenoms in\u00a0Sebastian Fernandez<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Diego Garcia<\/strong> Quispe<\/a>. Fernandez and Garcia had the 5th seeds completely flummoxed in the tie-breaker, running out to a 10-0 lead. However, Jake and Jose fought back, and saved off at least 8 attempts at match point across several trades of serves and came completely back to win 11-10. An amazing come-back that I can’t quite say i’ve ever seen in the pro game before. A quick note about the two juniors; they played top-level pro rball in this match and made a bunch of statement wins all weekend on the singles side.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Andres Acu\u00f1a<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Felipe Camacho<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0got a solid win over a tough doubles team of\u00a0Charlie Pratt<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Dylan Reid<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

– Semi-regular IRT players\u00a0Maurice Miller<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and DC-area native\u00a0Troy Warigon<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>teamed up to take out two accomplished IRT pros in\u00a0Andree Parrilla<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Gerardo Franco<\/strong> Gonzalez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

– College buddies from Baldwin-Wallace\u00a0Thomas Carter<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Kyle Ulliman<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>shocked the team of\u00a0Jansen Allen<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Nick Montalbano<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in the first round.<\/p>\n

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\nThe round of 16 had all four “seeded” teams end up winning to qualify to the main draw … but all four matches went tiebreaker.
\n–\u00a0David Horn<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and Mauro\u00a0Daniel Rojas<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0were stretched to 11-9 by the Miller\/Warigon team.
\n– Bredenbeck\/Diaz went 11-8 to advance past the Costa Rican team Acuna\/Camacho.
\n– Top Bolivian team\u00a0Luis Conrrado Moscoso<\/strong> Serrudo<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Roland Keller<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(the 2018 South American Games champs and 2018 Pan Am Games finalists) took out the Baldwin Wallace alumni team 11-0 in the breaker.
\n– Lastly, the tough Mexican team of\u00a0Rodrigo Montoya<\/strong> Sol\u00eds<\/a>\u00a0and Javier Mar<\/strong> had to go to extras to top the Denver duo of\u00a0Adam Manilla<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Nick Riffel<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Main draw featured some immediate upsets.
\n– Jose and Jake kept living on the edge, advancing again 11-10 over the Colombian pairing of\u00a0Sebastian Franco<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and Mario Mercado<\/strong>.
\n– the Mexican team of Montoya & Mar took out the #3 seeds Alejandro\u00a0Alex Landa<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0Samuel Murray<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in a tiebreaker.
\n– The #2 seeds and reigning IRF doubles champs\u00a0Alvaro Beltran<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and Daniel De la Rosa<\/strong> ousted the Bolivian pairing of Moscoso\/Keller in a rematch of the 2018 IRF Worlds semi final.
\n– Lastly, the #1 team of\u00a0Kane Waselenchuk<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Ben Croft<\/a><\/strong>, who havn’t lost a doubles match together since 2016, advanced over Horn and Rojas.<\/p>\n

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In the semis:
\n– #1 Croft\/Waselenchuk ended the Jake\/Jose run, advancing 13,6
\n– #2 Beltran\/DLR were pushed to the edge by country-mates Montoya\/Mar, advancing with an 11-8 tiebreaker win.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Final represented a rematch of several notable pro doubles matches over the past year: this was the final of last year’s US Open, which resulted in an epic match some called “the greatest match ever played.” This was also the final of the World Doubles event in Denver last May, which ended in a controversial call\/walking off the court.<\/p>\n

On this night in 2018 in Minneapolis though, the Mexicans could do no wrong and took the doubles title by the surprising score of 11 and 6. It has been quite a year so far for Beltran and DLR; they won the Mexican Nationals, tnen won the world doubles title in Costa Rica, then took the 3-wall WOR doubles crown in Vegas just two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

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Congrats to Alvaro Beltran and Daniel De La Rosa on their US Open Title. Here’s the match report for the tourney: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2C188Lc Here’s a review of the event. ——————– First off… for racquetball fans of top-level tournament play, you cannot ask for more out of this doubles draw. Out of the 22 matches in this … <\/p>\n

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