{"id":1628,"date":"2022-06-15T14:18:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T14:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2022-06-15T14:18:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T14:18:52","slug":"irt-costa-rica-tier-3-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/15\/irt-costa-rica-tier-3-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"IRT Costa Rica Tier 3 Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Acuna-Andres-usopen19-Savory-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Acuna-Andres-usopen19-Savory-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Acuna-Andres-usopen19-Savory-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Acuna-Andres-usopen19-Savory-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Acuna-Andres-usopen19-Savory-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Acuna-Andres-usopen19-Savory.jpg 1877w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Acuna welcomes pro players to his home club as a host this weekend in San Jose. Photo US Open 2019 Kevin Savory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The Costa Rica country club in San Jose is hosting an IRT event for the first time (I believe) since 2019, and they&#8217;ve got a nice solid draw. Lower tier events are not put into the proracquetballstats.com database because they&#8217;re not &#8220;full draws,&#8221; but they generally get a good chunk of the IRT top 10 and definitely contribute ranking points.<br>r2 link; https:\/\/www.r2sports.com\/tourney\/home.asp?TID=39311<br>Here&#8217;s a preview of the draw in San Jose this weekend; the tourney runs Weds-Sat so play will start on 6\/15\/22. There will be streaming, which is awesome, and per the IRT&#8217;s posts streaming starts thursday with the quarterfinals.<br>Singles preview:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>25 players entered, including 3 guys from the current top 10 (Parrilla, Murray, and Portillo) and another 5 guys from the 11-20 range (Franco, Acuna, Garay, Montoya, and Trujillo) and a couple of big names from the 21-30 range who can make noise (Mar, Natera).<br>There&#8217;s a ton of players here from Guatemala, including their entire international team of Salvatierra, Wer, Mendoza, and Galicia. There&#8217;s also a great set of IRF vets from other countries: Cueva from Ecuador, Cubillos from Colombia, the Gaticas and Salgado from Chile, plus @Franciso Fajardo and some of Team Zurek.<br>In the round of 16, look for these good matches:<\/li><li>8\/9 Trujillo vs Mar: a tough draw for the young Trujillo, getting a player in Mar who, when he&#8217;s &#8220;on&#8221; can be one of the best 8-10 players in the world. Mar has been out for a while nursing a core muscle injury, so this could be a close match.<\/li><li>4\/13 Mexican up and comer Sebastian Hernandez takes on veteran Franco in a good test for him, assuming he can get by the veteran Cubillos in the 32s.<\/li><li>7\/10 Garay vs Natera; this is an interesting match. Garay has been hit or miss touring lately, but should have the slight advantage over Natera.<\/li><li>2\/15: Murray vs Camacho; Camacho is a long-time former touring pro who can still ball; Murray has no cake walk here.<br>Projected Quarters:<\/li><li>#1 Parrilla vs Trujillo\/Mar winner: Parrilla has a tough quarter ahead.<\/li><li>#4 Franco vs #5 Acuna: Look for Acuna to hold serve at his home club<\/li><li>#3 Lalo vs #6 Montoya: tough matchup for Lalo here; Montoya is better than his ranking<\/li><li>#2 Murray vs Garay\/Natera winner: this should be a win for Murray on paper, but both of these players can cause trouble.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">My projected semis and Final: Parrilla over Acuna, Montoya over Murray. Final Parrilla over Montoya. However \u2026 if the semis turn into this quartet of players, its &#8220;any given sunday&#8221; because I think all four of these players are tightly bunched and can beat each other. Should make for some great Friday and Saturday action.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Doubles:<br>One of the best doubles teams in the world is here in Montoya\/Mar; I see them topping Garay\/Franco in one semi. In the other side, Portillo\/Acuna versus Parrilla\/Murray is an interesting doubles match. Portillo\/Parrilla were a &#8220;team&#8221; for sometime recently but now are apparently splitting up. Acuna doesn&#8217;t really have a regular partner since Camacho stopped touring, but Portillo has shown he&#8217;s a solid player. I&#8217;ll go with Lalo\/Acuna in an upset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">However, the final is all Montoya\/Mar, irrespective of who comes out of the bottom side.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking forward to more live pro racquetball this week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Costa Rica country club in San Jose is hosting an IRT event for the first time (I believe) since 2019, and they&#8217;ve got a nice solid draw. Lower tier events are not put into the proracquetballstats.com database because they&#8217;re not &#8220;full draws,&#8221; but they generally get a good chunk of the IRT top 10 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/15\/irt-costa-rica-tier-3-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IRT Costa Rica Tier 3 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":[105,6,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-costa-rica","category-doubles","category-irt","category-singles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","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=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1629,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions\/1629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}