{"id":2075,"date":"2024-05-20T13:17:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T13:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2024-05-21T16:44:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T16:44:09","slug":"lprt-2024-sweet-caroline-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/lprt-2024-sweet-caroline-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"LPRT 2024 Sweet Caroline Wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Vargas wins her 5th title of the season, and moves closer to the year end title.\n Photo US Open 2019 Kevin Savory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Congrats to your Pro winners on the weekend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Singles: Maria Jos\u00e9 Vargas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Doubles: Alexandra Herrera and Montse Mejia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both #1 seeds take the pro draws, but both also had to endure 11-10 wins to do so along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

R2 Sports App home page for event: https:\/\/www.r2sports.com\/website\/event-website.asp?TID=42306<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let’s review the notable matches in the Singles draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singles Match report in the PRS database: https:\/\/rball.pro\/v9b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the 32s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #17 Michelle Key continues to build points after being away from touring for years by topping #16 Stephanie Synhorst<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #21 Sheryl Lotts, who’s also been away from the tour for months after being a regular fixture, returned with a great win over #12 Hollie Scott .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the 16s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #9 Carla Munoz took out #8 Cris Amaya 7,6 to try to stay in the tour’s top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #11 Natalia Mendez got her best win in months, taking out the mercurial #6 Brenda Laime to move into the quarters for the third time this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– – #7 @Kelani Lawrence survived a 15-14 game one to advance past the the resurgent #10 @Jessica Parrilla .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the Quarters<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– the top 4 seeds advanced as expected, with a couple of the matches being close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #4 @Alexandra Herrera ground out a close 13,14 win against #5 Ana Gabriela Martinez to get back to the semis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #1 Vargas was pressed by long-time South American rival #8 Munoz 11.10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the Semis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #1 Vargas cruised past #4 Herrera 8,5 to earn her 5th final out of the 7 tournaments played this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #3 Paola Longoria reminded everyone where she belongs in the pecking order right now, taking out last year’s tour champ #2 Mejia in a hard fought 11-8 breaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Finals, Vargas took game one 12, then fell in game two 7 to setup another finals tiebreaker against the long time tour champion. In the tie-breaker, Vargas was fully in control and cruised to a 10-5 lead, but Longoria fought back. Vargas served for the match another 6 times without winning the final point as Longoria amazingly got it it back to 10-10 and had some opportunities, but couldn’t capitalize. Unfortunately, the match ended on a disputed serve that Longoria was adamant was a screen serve or foot fault. The lines judges didn’t agree, and that was that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Points Implications of results<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the win, Vargas now has 5 titles on the year, out of 7 events. Longoria has the other two. In the two tourneys Vargas missed, she had a semis loss and, going all the way back to Denver 2023, a loss in the 16s to Martinez. So, even though Vargas has far more titles, the points race for the title remains within Longoria’s reach. Assuming that SC was a “regular” grand slam, and that the last tournament next month in Chesapeake is also a “regular” grand slam … Vargas can still be caught for the 2023-24 title. It’ll take a miracle though: she leads Longoria by around 282 points, and you get 300 for winning a GS. So if Longoria wins Chesapeake (300) and Vargas misses the event, or loses in the round of 32 (worth 18.75), there’s a chance. However, if Vargas advances to the 16s in Chesapeake that’ll enough to seal the deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mejia still sits #2 in rolling rankings, but will fall to #3 as soon as last year’s Chesapeake event (which she won) falls off. There’s a massive gap from the top 3 to #4 Herrera, then another huge gap to the ladies ranked 5th-13th, who are all within 100-120 points of each other. Based on her results in this event, Lawrence should move up to #5 on tour, a career high. Manilla is holding on at #7 despite being out for months. Despite making the quarters, Munoz will fall to #11 and the missing Salas will lose 4 spots and fall to #13. Most of the rest of the tour stays relatively the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doubles review<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Match report in the PRS database: https:\/\/rball.pro\/t0c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The top ranked team survived an 11-10 thriller in the semis against the hodge-podge team of Martinez & Parrilla, then destroyed #2 Vargas\/Mendez in the final for yet another title. Herrera & Mejia have now won 5 of the season’s 6 titles, and lost in the final of the one event they didn’t win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Open Singles, other notable draws<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Mendez topped San Antonio USA junior Naomi Ros in the final of Women’s Open. Ros got there by beating #1 seed Munoz, which has to be a career best win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– the Commish @TJTj Baumbaugh teamed with Kanesha Madison to take the 3-team Women’s Open Doubles draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Former IRT touring pro @Maurice Miller topped #1 seed @Dylan Pruitt for the Men’s Open singles title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Pruitt teamed with Georgia’s @Austin Cunningham to take the Men’s Open Doubles title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Pruitt made it a “double double” (also my favorite order at In-and-Out Burger) by taking the Mixed Pro\/Open title with Lotts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thanks for all the streaming on the weekend, especially from broadcasters Timothy Baghurst, Jerry J Josey Jr., JTRball, and Tj Baumbaugh. Miller sat in on the singles final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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’t tagged … it probably means I attempted to tag you but Facebook stripped it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Per our handy master racquetball calendar …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1V6OTid6rZ356voXVkoV2sN7KMMbIP9SZd0MssH_nPGU\/edit?usp=sharing\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The IRT is in Canoga Park next weekend for the 2024 SoCal Open. Great to see the men and women playing back to back!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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tags @LPRT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congrats to your Pro winners on the weekend: – Singles: Maria Jos\u00e9 Vargas – Doubles: Alexandra Herrera and Montse Mejia Both #1 seeds take the pro draws, but both also had to endure 11-10 wins to do so along the way. R2 Sports App home page for event: https:\/\/www.r2sports.com\/website\/event-website.asp?TID=42306 —————— Let’s review the notable matches … <\/p>\n

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