{"id":1594,"date":"2022-05-02T13:09:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T13:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2022-05-02T13:09:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T13:09:03","slug":"irt-socal-open-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/02\/irt-socal-open-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"IRT SoCal Open Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/De-La-Rosa-Daniel-US-Open-2019-Savory-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/De-La-Rosa-Daniel-US-Open-2019-Savory-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/De-La-Rosa-Daniel-US-Open-2019-Savory-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/De-La-Rosa-Daniel-US-Open-2019-Savory-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/De-La-Rosa-Daniel-US-Open-2019-Savory.jpg 1875w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>DLR wins his 8th career title.  Photo US Open 2019, Photographer Kevin Savory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Congrats to your pro singles winner Daniel de la Rosa for his win in Canoga Park on Saturday 4\/30\/22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He secures his 8th career Tier1 title, which moves him into a tie for 13th all time with newly inducted Hall of Famer John Ellis . 12th on the list is 1981-82 pro tour champion and fellow Hall of Famer @Dave Peck , who won 11 tier1 titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See this link for a list of all 42 historical Tier1 IRT pro tourney winners: http:\/\/rball.pro\/1D09B4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>R2 Sports App home page for event: https:\/\/www.r2sports.com\/tourney\/home.asp?TID=38996<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Lets review the notable matches in the Pro Singles draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singles Match report in the PRS database: http:\/\/rball.pro\/22795E<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 128s and 64s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Great showing this weekend from Bolivian Junior @Hector Barrios, who won twice on Thursday, including an upset of IRT regular @Erick Cuevas Fernandez, to get into the round of 32.<\/li><li>@Alejandro Cardona &#8216;s return to the IRT started out well, with two quick wins over seeded competition.<\/li><li>@Jim Douglas secured his first career IRT win in the round of 128, taking out @Brad Levine in a breaker.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 32s, some big upsets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>#17 upset #16 when @Sebastian Fernandez took out @Thomas Carter in two. Patata can&#8217;t seem to get out of the #16 seed at IRT events and will shoot for the big upset on Friday.<\/li><li>#9 Mario Mercado almost fell to former IRT touring pro @David &#8220;Bobby&#8221; Horn, but outlasted him 11-8 in the breaker. Its hard to win three matches in a day.<\/li><li>#21 @Jordy Alonso got the biggest upset of the day, continuing his excellent streak of play lately and beating #12 @Sebastian Franco in two 6,13. Alonso is making a statement lately, now with wins in the last few months over Horn, Franco, and Bredenbeck.<\/li><li>Cardona made quick work of a hobbled #11 @Alvaro Beltran 13,2 to move into the round of 16<\/li><li> #18 Mexican junior phenom @Erick Trujillo staved off match point against in game two versus #15 fireballer @Eduardo Garay, then raced to a 11-3 tiebreaker win. Trujillo continues to get solid wins against solid pros.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 16s, two upsets by seeds and a couple other notable matches:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>#8 @Rocky Carson made quick work of #9 @Mario Mercado 6,11 in the 8\/9 spot that generally sees really competitive matches. Mercado won his first Tier 1 recently, but has scuffled as of late both professionally and internationally.<\/li><li>#13 @Adam Manilla got one of the best wins of his career, topping #4 Alejandro Landa in an 11-8 tiebreaker.<\/li><li>#3 @Andree Parrilla was pushed to the edge by the improving @Andres Acuna but prevailed 10,14<\/li><li>#6 @Conrrado Moscoso shook off the jet lag after falling behind big in the first, then raced to a two game win over Cardona 14,4.<\/li><li>In the always competitive 7\/10 match, #7 @Eduardo Portillo took a solid win over #10 @Jake Bredenbeck in a tiebreaker<\/li><li>#2 @Kane Waselenchuk was a no-show, reportedly having &#8220;flight issues,&#8221; which gave Mexican reigning 18U World champion @Erick Trujillo a walkover into the quarters, his career best.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Quarters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>#1 @Daniel de la Rosa reversed his previous result against #8 Carson, topping him in a breaker. These two had met in the last event at this juncture and Carson upset the #1 player; not this time.<\/li><li>#5 @Samuel Murray cruised past the upset-minded Manilla in two games. It is difficult to come back after a career win and compete in the next round, especially when its just a few hours later.<\/li><li>#3 Parrilla showed pretty sturdy mental game against #6 Moscoso, coming back from 10-0 down in the first to win 15-12. He then ground out a 15-13 game two win against the talented Bolivian to get a really solid win and move into the semis.<\/li><li>#7 Lalo put his foot down against his junior Mexican rival, topping Trujillo 8,4 in a dominant showing to move into the semis.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Semis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>#1 DLR improved to 5-1 lifetime against Murray, playing a solid match to advance despite Murray&#8217;s best acrobatic efforts 13,9.<\/li><li>#3 Parrilla played a masterful tactical match against #7 Portillo, frustrating his young San Luis Potosi rival to advance 8,8.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Finals, DLR improved to 9-2 career against Andree and took care of business, driving the action and out playing Parrilla en route to a comfortable 8,11 win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Points Implications of results<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IRT for the time being is doing the ranks on a rolling 11 Tier1 basis, dropping the lowest Tier1 showing and any other events that add up to more than 11 played events. That means this tournament &#8220;retires&#8221; two Jan 2020 events, where DLR had a win and a final, so he had 700 points to defend. This means his lead at the top will shrink, but he will remain #1 by a sizeable margin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The big move will be Kane dropping; he had a win in Austin in January 2020 to defend, and earned zero points here, so he&#8217;ll drop at least a few spots (my projection shows him dropping to #5 on tour). This means that Parrilla will ascend back to the #2 spot, Landa moves up to #3, and Murray to #4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Men&#8217;s Open Singles and Doubles draws<br>No pro doubles here, so a lot of the non top 8 also entered Open Singles \u2026 and then a lot of them dropped out, giving a bad look with a ton of WBF-ns on the sheet. Four of the top 8 seeds forfeited out at the round of 16.<br>The semis featured a very international flavor, with two Bolivians, a Guatemalan, and a Colombian competing. Bolivian 16U payer @Ezequel Subieta took out Colombian vet @SeSet Cubillos in one semi, while Mexican youngster @Miguel Arteaga Guzman got a walkover against Guatemalan vet @Juan Jose Salvatierra in the other. The final thus was #15 versus #16, with Arteaga taking out Subieta 11-10 in a thrilling match.<br>In Open Doubles, seeds held to the semis, which was full of IRT touring regulars. #1 Garay\/Franco (a good representation of the top Colombian doubles team) beat the young team of Trujilo\/Rodriguez in one semi, while the excellent pairing of Acuna\/Alonso topped the NorCal duo of Antone\/Horn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the final, Acuna\/Alonso prevailed over the hard hitting Colombians, winning easily 13,5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for all the streaming on the weekend, especially from broadcasters Dean Baer and Leo Vazquez , who flew in specially for this event. We also got to see a ton of streaming from @JTRB , thanks as always for all you do. Thanks also to @Wayne Antone who did some great work on the mike and reffing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reminder to Players! Please like and follow this page so that when I tag you, you see it. Facebook will only retain tags of people that like\/follow a page, which means lots of you are not getting the notoriety of getting tagged and noticed on Facebook. If your name is here and it isn&#8217;t tagged \u2026 it probably means I attempted to tag you but Facebook stripped it.<\/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>We have a break next weekend, then on the 5\/15 weekend both pro tours are back in action. IRT is in NYC, while LPRT has its Grand Slam in South Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>tags<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to your pro singles winner Daniel de la Rosa for his win in Canoga Park on Saturday 4\/30\/22. He secures his 8th career Tier1 title, which moves him into a tie for 13th all time with newly inducted Hall of Famer John Ellis . 12th on the list is 1981-82 pro tour champion and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/02\/irt-socal-open-recap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IRT SoCal 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":[2,7,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irt","category-singles","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","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=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}