{"id":1668,"date":"2022-08-01T11:24:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2022-08-01T11:24:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:24:27","slug":"alex-landa-open-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/01\/alex-landa-open-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Landa 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\/02\/Landa-Alejandro-USARnatDbls-2020-savory-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Landa-Alejandro-USARnatDbls-2020-savory-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Landa-Alejandro-USARnatDbls-2020-savory-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Landa-Alejandro-USARnatDbls-2020-savory-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Landa-Alejandro-USARnatDbls-2020-savory-2.jpg 1875w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Landa wins the Landa Open.  Photo from 2020 USAR National doubles by Kevin Savory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Here&#8217;s a recap of the excellent satellite IRT event from this past weekend in Juarez.<br>Congrats to your winners on the weekend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>IRT Singles: Andree Parrilla<\/li><li>Open Doubles: Rodrigo Montoya &amp; Javier Mar<\/li><li>IRT21 Singles: Erick Trujillo<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">R2 Sports App home page for event: https:\/\/www.r2sports.com\/tourney\/home.asp?TID=39837<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Lets review the notable matches in the Pro Singles draw.<br>Not too many surprises before the quarters; Cuevas got a walkover against Christian Longoria, @Jordy Alonso was a no-show, giving Diego Gastellum a pass into the 16s, otherwise the top players advanced.<br>In the 16s,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Andree Parrilla took out former WRT #1 Alex Cardona in two games.<\/li><li>Gastellum got a marquee win, topping Cuevas to get to the quarters.<\/li><li>Rodrigo Montoya handled former Mexican national champ Polo Gutierrez in two, a solid win against a very tough opponent.<\/li><li>Alvaro Beltran went breaker to top the under-rated Jaime Martell (who I thought would get this upset).<\/li><li>#2 and tournament namesake @Alex Landa had his typical slow start and dropped a game to Sebastian Hernandez before advancing.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">All in all, only a couple of minor surprises into the quarters.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Quarters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>#1 Parrilla handled the upstart Gastellum in two to advance to the semis.<\/li><li>#4 Montoya blitzed #5 Sebastian Fernandez , donuting him in the first to advance in two. Kind of a shocking result honestly.<\/li><li>&#8220;The Kid&#8221; Erick Trujillo took out the Veteran @Alvaro Beltran in a breaker. It looked like it would be a two game win, but Beltran had a huge comeback in game two to force the breaker, where Trujillo ran away with it 11-2. Another excellent result for the reigning 18U Mexican national (and World) champ.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8211; Landa made a statement against his long-time Mexican rival @Javier Mar, taking game one 15-1 and holding on for a two-game win.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Semis went chalk:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>#1 Parrilla, who has a losing record in tier1s against his long-time rival Montoya, flipped the script and took out Rodrigo in a breaker. After saving match points against in game two, Parrilla blew out the breaker 11-1 to win.<\/li><li>#2 Landa won two close games against the upstart Trujillo to move into the final.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In the Finals, it was a tale of streaks between the two top seeds. Landa cruised to a game one win, then Parrilla ran of a ton of points straight to win game two \u2026 then Landa blew it out in game three 11-1 to take the title in his home town tourney.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Open Doubles review<br>The doubles draw was relatively chalk into the finals, where the two top seeds of IRT veterans (#1 Montoya\/Mar and #2 Landa\/Beltran) were set to meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In the final, the #1 seeds took a close game one win, then cruised to a two game victory and the title.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>IRT 21 Singles results:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>#1 Trujillo advanced to the final from the top half, but not before getting pressed by Luis Renteria , who is playing in his age 17 season.<br>The bottom half featured a big run of upsets by @Jose Ramos (who holds 6 junior Mexican titles himself and just matriculated out of 18U), who topped both Orteaga and Cuevas with relative ease to make the final.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In the final, Ramos gave Trujillo everything he could handle, and it went down to the wire, with Trujillo taking a thrilling 11-10 win.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for all the streaming on the weekend, especially from broadcasters Dean Baer, Favio Soto, Pablo Fajre and the IRTLive crew<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">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.<\/h2>\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<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">there&#8217;s a break in the schedule on the 8\/7 weekend, then 8\/15 marks the first pro tournament since May, with the LPRT returning to Mexico for a grand slam kickoff to their new season.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>tags<br>International Racquetball Tour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a recap of the excellent satellite IRT event from this past weekend in Juarez.Congrats to your winners on the weekend: IRT Singles: Andree Parrilla Open Doubles: Rodrigo Montoya &amp; Javier Mar IRT21 Singles: Erick Trujillo R2 Sports App home page for event: https:\/\/www.r2sports.com\/tourney\/home.asp?TID=39837 Lets review the notable matches in the Pro Singles draw.Not too &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/01\/alex-landa-open-recap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alex Landa 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":[6,2,99,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doubles","category-irt","category-mexico","category-singles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","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=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}