{"id":1545,"date":"2022-03-07T15:43:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T15:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2022-03-07T15:43:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T15:43:27","slug":"lprt-boston-open-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/07\/lprt-boston-open-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"LPRT Boston Open Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"188\" height=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Herrera-Alexandra-lprt-official2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1546\"\/><figcaption>Herrera makes it two for two over Longoria.  Photo LPRT official<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Congrats to your winners on the weekend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Singles: Alexandra Herrera<\/li><li>Doubles: Paola Longoria &amp; Samantha Salas<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>R2 Sports App home page for event: https:\/\/www.r2sports.com\/website\/event-website.asp?TID=38579<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lets review the notable matches in the Singles draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Singles Match report in the PRS database: http:\/\/rball.pro\/F91610<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 32s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>@Hollie Scott and Maria Renee Rodriguez split two close games in their 16\/17 match-up before Scott pulled away with a dominant 11-1 tiebreaker win.<\/li><li>The ever improving junior Micaela Meneses took a game off of #13 @Erika Manila before falling in a breaker.<\/li><li>@Crist&#8217; Amaya got a solid win over fellow veteran tour player @Nancy Enriquez 11-5 in the breaker.<\/li><li>&#8211; #11 @Carla Munoz reversed the script against @Jenny Daza , topping her 9,9 to move on. Daza had gotten the big upset over Munuz in this round just last tournament.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 16s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Scott made #1 @Paola Longoria work for her round of 16 win, pushing the top player 12,11 in their round of 16 matchup.<\/li><li>#5 @Natalia Mendez was challenged by her younger Argentinian rival @Valeria Centellas before advancing 11-7 in the breaker.<\/li><li>#13 Manilla got her fifth win over a top-5 seed on tour since October, downing #4 @Gaby Martinez in a hard-fought close match. She took the first game 15-13, then Gaby raced to a huge lead in game two before Erika pulled it all the way back. They traded blows at match point before Gaby&#8217;s athletic exploits pushed a tiebreaker. There, Manilla looked to run away with the breaker before Gaby scored 7 unanswered to push for an amazing comeback \u2026 but Manilla got the 11-8 win.<\/li><li>#3Maria Jose Vargas battled through some illness and outlasted the veteran Amaya in a tiebreaker.<\/li><li>&#8211; #7 @Montse Mejia put a statement down , crushing #10 @Brenda Laime 8,1 to move into the quarters.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Quarters, a couple of surprising results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>#1 Longoria made fast work of her doubles partner Salas 5,7<\/li><li>#5 Mendez avenged herself in a rematch against Manilla, winning in a tie-breaker to avoid two upsets in two tournaments.<\/li><li>#3 Vargas could not overcome both illness and #6 Barrios, losing in a tie-breaker.<\/li><li>&#8211; #2 Herrera outlasted her doubles partner Mejia, dropping the middle game but running away with it in the tiebreaker.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Semis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Longoria made quick work of Mendez 7,5 and was in cruise control for most of the match.<\/li><li>Herrera was not troubled by the young Bolivian Barrios 6,5 and setup the anticipated rematch of last week&#8217;s final in Vero Beach.<br>In the Finals\u2026. another shocker. Herrera dominated in game one 15-8, then for a while it looked like Longoria had found another gear, racing to a 12-1 game two win. Instead of packing it in, Herrera fought back and saved game points against to take game two 15-14 in a pretty amazing comeback win.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Herrera&#8217;s second career win moves her into the top 20 all time of tour wins. Longoria loses in the final for the second tourney in a row \u2026 something that hadn&#8217;t happened since the fall of 2010, when she lost two successive finals to Rajsich (also the last time she lost to the same person in two straight events). Is this a changing of the guard? Or a blip on Longoria&#8217;s resume?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Points Implications of results: I don&#8217;t see a ton of movement in the top 10 after this tourney. Herrera solidifies her grip on #2 and closes the gap a bit on #1. Gaby maintains a slight lead on Mendez for #4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further down, some more significant movement. Manilla should move up to #12 and Lawrence should move to #15, edging slowly to the top 10. Meneses continues to rise; she&#8217;s nearly in the top 20 now. Lastly two more appearances for Daza and Rico have them both inside the top 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doubles review.<br>Hollie Scott had the tournament of her career, driving the all-American duo of Scott &amp; Lawrence to the pro doubles final. They took out Vargas &amp; Mendez in the quarters, then Herrera\/Mejia in the semis. In the final though, they couldn&#8217;t overtake the #1 duo of Longoria\/Salas, falling in a breaker.<br>Longoria &amp; Salas win their 35th pro doubles title together since August 2014. Amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Match report in the PRS database: http:\/\/rball.pro\/F5E7DA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women&#8217;s Open<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meneses may have lost in the first round of pros to Manilla, but she took out several pros en route to the Women&#8217;s Open title. She took out local player @Jolene Sullivan in the round of 16, then beat Lotts, Lawrence, and Munoz for the title. Great wins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for all the streaming on the weekend, especially from broadcasters Timothy Baghurst , Jerry J Josey Jr. , @JT R Ball , and Tj Baumbaugh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next up?<br>Per our handy master racquetball calendar \u2026<br>https:\/\/docs.google.com\/\u2026\/1V6OTid6rZ356voXVkoV2sN7KMMb\u2026\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing domestically, but a couple of countries are having National selection events to pick their teams to go to PARC. We&#8217;ll try to decipher Facebook postings to figure out who has won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>tags<br>@LPRT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to your winners on the weekend: Singles: Alexandra Herrera Doubles: Paola Longoria &amp; Samantha Salas R2 Sports App home page for event: https:\/\/www.r2sports.com\/website\/event-website.asp?TID=38579 Lets review the notable matches in the Singles draw. Singles Match report in the PRS database: http:\/\/rball.pro\/F91610 In the 32s: @Hollie Scott and Maria Renee Rodriguez split two close games in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/07\/lprt-boston-open-recap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LPRT Boston Open Recap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,7,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doubles","category-lprt","category-singles","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}