{"id":1624,"date":"2022-06-10T13:07:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T13:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2022-06-10T13:07:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T13:07:41","slug":"lprt-teamroot-com-super-max-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/10\/lprt-teamroot-com-super-max-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"LPRT Teamroot.com Super Max Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"873\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Herrera-Alexandra-den21-fife-1024x873.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Herrera-Alexandra-den21-fife-1024x873.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Herrera-Alexandra-den21-fife-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Herrera-Alexandra-den21-fife-768x654.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Herrera-Alexandra-den21-fife-1536x1309.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Herrera-Alexandra-den21-fife.jpg 1643w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Herrera the big story here; is she hurt? Photo Denver 2021 KenFife<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Welcome to the final event of the 2021-22 season for the Ladies Pros, and its the biggest purse in the sport. Thanks to @Randy Root, its time for the Teamroot.com Super Max tournament in Overland Park, outside of Kansas City, MO.<br>R2 Sports App link: https:\/\/www.r2sports.com\/website\/event-website.asp?TID=39192<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 players are here this weekend competing, including 18 of the top 20 (just #16 Enriquez and #18 Amaya are missing from the top 20).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lets preview the Singles draw. Here&#8217;s some notable qualifying matches that i&#8217;m looking forward to:<br>In the round of 32:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>#16\/#17 Lotts vs MRR is compelling. Lotts is coming off a good showing at USA Nationals.<\/li><li>#14\/#19 Munoz vs Meneses: Micaela is coming off a disappointing showing in South Carolina, while Munoz is coming off one of her better showings: can both players keep it going?<\/li><li>#6 Mejia vs #27 @Martina Katz: the Argentinian junior makes her LPRT debut. I don&#8217;t suspect she&#8217;ll trouble Mejia, but she&#8217;s had great international showings thus far.<\/li><li>&#8211; #15\/#18 Centellas vs Scott; another compelling match between two players who both can win this match.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Projecting the round of 16s. Here&#8217;s some matches to watch for, assuming no major upsets in the 1st round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>#8 Parrilla vs #9 Manilla. Manilla coming off a run to the US nationals, but a win over a solid veteran pro like Parrilla will be important to Erika to maintain forward momentum into the next season.<\/li><li>#4 Mendez vs #13 Salas: this was a quarter final matchup last year at this event, now Salas has plunged in the rankings all the way to #13. They have not met in nearly a year, and Mendez has stayed the course in the top 4, but this has &#8220;upset by seed&#8221; potential.<\/li><li>&#8211; #6 Mejia vs #11 Lawrence; a first time meeting for these two, and an interesting test. Mejia won this event famously last year, beating four top 10 players in the process. On paper a win for the Mexican \u2026 but Kelani has been getting top10 wins all season.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Projected Qtrs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>#1 Longoria over #9 Manilla, a rematch of a couple of more &#8220;famous&#8221; matches from earlier in the season.<\/li><li>#5 Gaby over #4 Mendez: Martinez leads 6-3 career, and beat Mendez last fall at Worlds. Gaby plays a limited schedule and will make the most of it here.<\/li><li>#3 Vargas over #6 Mejia: these two both play &#8220;speed racquetball&#8221; but Vargas holds the slight edge.<\/li><li>#2 Herrera over #7 Barrios: Barrios is solid but won&#8217;t top Herrera right now on form, despite her 21 World&#8217;s shock win (which included a win over Herrera in the quarters). Herrera was reportedly in a walking cast last week with an unspecified injury; if she&#8217;s hobbled, this is the kind of player who will exploit it. We should watch Herrera&#8217;s mobility.<br>Semis: Longoria over Gaby, Herrera over Vargas (assuming Herrera is healthy). There&#8217;s just such a gulf between the top 2 players and the rest of the field right now.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Finals; I think Longoria has righted the ship and will take this final over Herrera to end the season with a big check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Doubles review<br>The reigning #1 team of Longoria\/Salas is here and together, but there&#8217;s some interesting jumbling of regular partners elsewhere in the draw that should make for an interesting tourney.<br>Typically the #2 seeds, long-time partners Herrera and Mejia are split up this weekend, with Herrera playing with US singles champ Manilla and Mejia playing with fellow Mexican Parrilla. They&#8217;re the new #2 and #3 seeds and may face each other in the semis.<br>Other teams in the draw including the newly named US champs Lawrence\/Scott as the #6 seeds, the long-time Guatemalan national team of Martinez\/Rodriguez as the #5 seeds, and the new Argentine national team Mendez\/Centellas as the #4 seeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end though, Look for Longoria\/Salas to claim their 37th pro doubles title together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look for Streaming in the regular places; follow the LPRT on Facebook and sign up to get notifications when they go Live.<br>Look for Timothy Baghurst, Jerry J Josey Jr., and Tj Baumbaugh on the mike, calling the shots!<br>LPRT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the final event of the 2021-22 season for the Ladies Pros, and its the biggest purse in the sport. Thanks to @Randy Root, its time for the Teamroot.com Super Max tournament in Overland Park, outside of Kansas City, MO.R2 Sports App link: https:\/\/www.r2sports.com\/website\/event-website.asp?TID=39192 28 players are here this weekend competing, including 18 of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/10\/lprt-teamroot-com-super-max-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LPRT Teamroot.com Super Max Preview&#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-1624","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\/1624","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=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}