{"id":2217,"date":"2025-01-20T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2025-01-20T16:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:00:16","slug":"lprt-2025-arizona-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/lprt-2025-arizona-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"LPRT 2025 Arizona Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mejia is back on top. \n Photo unk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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

– Singles: Montse Mejia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Doubles: @Paola Longoria & Samantha Salas Solis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mejia wins her 8th career singles title, moving into 12th place all time. She returns to the winner’s circle for the first time in exactly a year; she won the 2024 Arizona Open for her last title. Meanwhile, Longoria & Salas win their 50th career pro doubles title together; our records only go back to 2014 and I have them at 40 in the database, which means another 10 in the years prior to 2014 that we could go back and find with enough LPRT event research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

R2 Sports App home page for event: https:\/\/www.r2sports.com\/website\/event-website.asp?TID=45386<\/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\/q89<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

– Lotts and Ros had a battle, going tie-breaker, before Lotts advanced. These 16\/17 seed matches are tough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Lucia Gonzalez pressed Amaya, losing 8,14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Arizona Resident Michelle Key was a withdrawal from her “home” tournament, giving MRR a walkover. She played doubles the next day, so this was an odd wbf-ns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Annie Sanchez got a solid win over Lexi York to move on and get a rare win on tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Rhonda’s return to the tour ended with a one-and-done at the hands of Kelani 4,8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Parrilla made fast work of Enriquez 4,2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

– The 8\/9 matchup between Amaya and Salas went the distance, as expected, with Samantha squeaking out an 11-10 win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Herrera got pushed by Centellas, who won the first game before falling (10),13,6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Mendez cruised past Parrilla 11,1 to earn another quarterfinal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– The Vargas-Barrios match was tight as expected, but Maria Jose won 10,12 to avoid the round of 16 upset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

– #1 Longoria beat her doubles partner Salas, as the met for the 63rd time on tour. Believe it or not, that’s not the most frequent h2h match we’ve ever seen; Longoria played Rhonda 69 times in their career (see https:\/\/rball.pro\/uce )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #5 Gaby made fast work of #4 Herrera 8,4 to setup a solid semi from the top side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #3 Mejia seems like she’s on a mission, crushing #6 Lawrence 0,4 to move on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #2 Vargas dropped the first game against her now dropped doubles partner Mendez before advancing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

– #1 Longoria had to come from a game down to beat the Guatemalan Martinez, cruising to an 11-1 tiebreaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #3 Mejia continued her torrid stretch, dominating the the drained Vargas in two 7,9 to move into the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Finals, Mejia defended her 2024 title in this event with a comprehensive 8,14 win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Mejia and Vargas tightened the points race, but there’s still a sizeable gap from Longoria to Vargas (300 points or so), and then from Vargas to Mejia (another 300 points or so). The gap from the top 3 players just to #4 Herrera is monumental; nearly 500 points, which would take most of a season to make up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Changes we saw: Lawrence and the missing Laime switched spots at #6\/7. Synhorst should move up to #14 with her round of 32 win. Lotts is climbing up the rankings, now at #17. Centellas jumps a few spots and is now back in the top 20.<\/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\/x1k<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The doubles draw gave us an upset of the #1 team for the first time in more than a year, as the new-look Argentina doubles team Vargas\/Centellas topped Mejia & Herrera in the semis. However, Longoria & Salas (now dumped down to #3) didn’t drop a game all weekend and took the title 12,10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

– LPRT U21: Yanna Salazar took out countrymate Daniela Rico for the U21 title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Women’s Open: Naomi Ros faced Angelica Barrios as the two tops seeds, and the former top 8 LPRT pro won out as she rebuild her ranking points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Men’s Open: US Jr National team member Grant Williams faced Texan Daniel Bautista for the title and won 10,5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Men’s Open Doubles was taken by Arizona residents Coy Rogers and Alonzo Tavares<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Mixed Open Doubles was taken by Katie Neils & Freddie Villalon in a walkover that may have been travel related (i.e. someone had to get on a plane).<\/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<\/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

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There was an IRT satellite in Kansas this weekend that we’ll do a quick recap of. The next big pro event is the IRT Lewis Drug in Sioux Falls in two weeks’ time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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tags<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Congrats to your Pro winners on the weekend: – Singles: Montse Mejia – Doubles: @Paola Longoria & Samantha Salas Solis Mejia wins her 8th career singles title, moving into 12th place all time. She returns to the winner’s circle for the first time in exactly a year; she won the 2024 Arizona Open for her … <\/p>\n

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