{"id":541,"date":"2019-05-06T15:10:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T15:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/?p=541"},"modified":"2019-05-06T15:10:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T15:10:48","slug":"irt-syosset-open-singles-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/06\/irt-syosset-open-singles-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"IRT Syosset Open Singles Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Kane wins again … and wraps up his 13th pro tour title.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Congrats to Kane Waselenchuk<\/strong>, who wins the Syosset Open on the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this title:
– Kane’s 116th professional win.
– He improves to 26-2 on the season
– He improves to 76-3 over Rocky, his opponent in the final.
– Most importantly … Kane secures an insurmountable points lead and clinches his 13th pro tour title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ll put up a separate post about the ramifications of this win for the year end’s rankings … this was the final Tier 1 event of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

r2sports link for brackets: http:\/\/rball.pro\/CCDF9D<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Match Report in PRS: http:\/\/rball.pro\/A7214A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the matches I found notable, by round:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the 64s:
– #9 seed\u00a0Rodrigo Montoya Solis<\/a>\u00a0absolutely pasted #41\u00a0Alan Natera Chavez<\/strong><\/a>2,2. Talk about turning the tables from the last time they played at Nationals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Similarly, #24\u00a0Javier Mar<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0advanced with relative ease over #25\u00a0Eduardo Garay Rodriguez<\/strong><\/a>\u00a05,10 to setup a fantastic 32 match up with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #16\u00a0Adam Manilla<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0took out #33\u00a0Nick Montalbano<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0with relative ease 5,3. I thought this would be closer, given Montalbano’s results on tour earlier this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #13\u00a0David Horn<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0was stretched to an 11-8 tiebreaker win, taking out Marylander #36 Mauricio\u00a0<\/strong>MoMo Zelada<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #11\u00a0Jose Diaz<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0advanced over Mexican junior #38 Oscar Nieto<\/strong> 13,11. Nieto is playing in his age 18 season but missed last year’s Mexican Junior Nationals after advancing to the 2017 16U Mexican finals (where he lost to Fernandez, also playing here).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #22\u00a0Andres Acu\u00f1a<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0made fast work of Georgia IRT frequenter #27\u00a0Maurice Miller<\/strong><\/a>\u00a03,7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Teenager #26\u00a0Sebastian Fernandez<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0downed #23\u00a0Mauro Daniel Rojas<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0with relative ease 10,6. Like with several of these match-ups, I thought this would be closer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #42 Andres Gomez<\/strong> upset his fellow Colombian #10\u00a0Mario Mercado<\/strong><\/a>\u00a011-9, making for another one-and-done for Mercado and likely killing his chances of finishing in the top 10 this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

– Solid win by youngster #17\u00a0Lalo Portillo<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to beat #16\u00a0Adam Manilla<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to advance to the main draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– In the match of the round, #9 Montoya was ousted by his good friend and frequent doubles partner #24 Mar 12,7. Both games were neck and neck up to a point, and then featured Mar pulling away. Such a shame to see two top 10 players in the world meet in the 32s. But Mar survives the gauntlet of this little section of the draw to move on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #12\u00a0Jake Bredenbeck<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0came from a game down to dominate #21\u00a0Charlie Pratt<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and advance (8),6,1. I thought Pratt had a deep run in him, given his PARC run last month, but Jake played really well, frustrating Pratt and dominated the tie-breaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #19\u00a0Thomas Carter<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0got a statement win over #14\u00a0Gerardo Franco Gonzalez<\/strong><\/a>\u00a01,10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Similarly, #22 Acuna dominated #11 seed Jose Diaz 4,12 to move on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #26 Fernandez dominated Gomez 8,0 to advance into the main draw.
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In the 16s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #1\u00a0Kane Waselenchuk<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0seems to show little ill effects from last weekend, dominating the youngster Portillo in a 4,4 win to open his tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #24 Mar continued plowing through ranked players, topping #8\u00a0Sebastian Franco<\/strong><\/a>\u00a07,13 to setup a rematch with Kane of a round of 16 last October at the US Open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #12 Bredenbeck makes his first IRT quarter final since Nov 2017 with a solid win over #5\u00a0Daniel De La Rosa<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– There he’ll face long-time WRT rival\u00a0Andree Parrilla<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0, who advanced for the 2nd week in a row with a 2-game win over fellow WRT veteran David Horn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #3\u00a0Alex Landa<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>dispatched surprise main draw participant #19 Carter 5,6. Unless Parrilla makes the final, Landa has sewn up #3 with this win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #6\u00a0Alvaro Beltran<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0was taken to a tie-breaker by the surprising Costa Rican Acuna before advancing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #7\u00a0Samuel Murray<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0dropped a game to #26 Fernandez before coming back to advance in a tiebreaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #2\u00a0Rocky Carson<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0dispatched #15\u00a0Jansen Allen<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in two straight 4,10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, 6 of your top 8 seeds advance; only #3 and #8 are upset at this juncture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the Quarters…
– #1 Waselenchuk left no doubt that he’s recovered from whatever ailed him in Florida, pounding one of the best players in the world in #24 Mar 6,3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #4 Parilla squandered match point in game two, but held on in the tiebreaker to advance over #12 Jake, ending Bredenbeck’s best run in a year and a half on tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #3 Landa pulverized Beltran 4,4 in a rematch of last weekend’s final, throwing down the gauntlet on this event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #2 Carson cruised past Canadian #7 Murray 9,5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, despite the depth of this 49-man draw and the presence of a slew of top world players who don’t regularly play the tour … its chalk seeds into the semis. Cream rises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the Semis:
– #4 Parilla came out swinging, taking Game 1 over Waselenchuk and putting into doubt not only the year end title race but also the state of Kane’s game right now given his loss last weekend. Kane rebounded though taking game 2 and donutting Parrilla in the tie-breaker to advance to thefinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #2 Carson avenged a loss to #3 Landa last weekend by taking a solid 12,13 win to advance to the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the Final, Kane showed no mercy and showed no ill effects of any past physical ailments by dominating the tour’s #2 player 3,4 for the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next up; per the IRT schedule, there’s a few non-tier 1s between now and the end of June, including two Tier 2s that could theoretically juggle the year end rankings a bit. We’ll definitely cover them as they stand to have good draws, especially the “Black Gold” event in Mexico in mid-June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also notable; the tour plans on announcing a preliminary copy of the 2019-20 schedule next month and they’ve teased it a bit; it should include the return of several events that dropped off in the last year, plus the return of some of the great events that happened this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Racquetball Tour<\/a>\u00a0Racquetball Canada<\/a>\u00a0USA Racquetball<\/a>Federaci\u00f3n Mexicana de Raquetbol<\/a>\u00a0Federaci\u00f3n Boliviana De Raquetbol – Febora<\/a>\u00a0Fecoracquet Fecoracquet<\/a>\u00a0International Racquetball Federation – IRF<\/a>International Racquetball Federation<\/a>
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Congrats to Kane Waselenchuk, who wins the Syosset Open on the weekend. With this title:– Kane’s 116th professional win.– He improves to 26-2 on the season– He improves to 76-3 over Rocky, his opponent in the final.– Most importantly … Kane secures an insurmountable points lead and clinches his 13th pro tour title. We’ll put … <\/p>\n

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