{"id":622,"date":"2019-06-17T16:53:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/?p=622"},"modified":"2019-06-17T16:53:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:53:46","slug":"2019-intl-black-gold-cup-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/17\/2019-intl-black-gold-cup-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Int’l Black Gold Cup Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Huge statement win for Estrada this weekend.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Congrats to the winners on the weekend:
– Singles: Javier Estrada<\/strong>
– Doubles: Javier Mar<\/strong> & Rodrigo Montoya<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

r2sports link for brackets: https:\/\/www.r2sports.com\/tourney\/home.asp?TID=30578<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No database links at www.proracquetballstats.com<\/a>; we don’t load up non Tier 1 events, despite how amazing the draw was. We’re reporting as fans of the pro game. And, what a tournament it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wrap up of the singles event, with notable matches:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the opening round 64:
– doubles specialist\u00a0Roland Keller<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0got a solid win over regular touring pro\u00a0Jaime Martell Neri<\/strong><\/a>\u00a014,11.
–\u00a0Erik Garcia<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0beat Mexican Jr legend\u00a0David Ortega<\/strong><\/a>\u00a012,11.
–\u00a0Javier Moreno<\/strong><\/a>‘s break from pro racquetball retirement ended quickly at the hands of youngster\u00a0Erick Cuevas<\/strong><\/a>\u00a012,6.
–\u00a0Jose Daniel Ugalde Albornoz<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0was given a pass into the 32s and a match-up with Moscoso when\u00a0Alex Cardona<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0withdrew. This is a bummer; I thought the Cardona-Ugalde match would be great … and that a possible Moscoso-Cardona 32 match-up would be fantastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 32s:
–\u00a0Carlos Keller Vargas<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0took out IRT touring regular\u00a0Justus Benson<\/strong><\/a>\u00a01,14. Good come-back by Benson to make game 2 competitive.
– #5\u00a0Rodrigo Montoya Solis<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0got a walk-over win over Roland Keller<\/strong>, who had to take injury time-out time in his earlier victory and may have been preserving himself for doubles.
– #12\u00a0Javier Mar<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0got stretched by American youngster Garcia to a tie-breaker before advancing.
– Giant killer\u00a0Alan Natera Chavez<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0took out #13\u00a0Charlie Pratt<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in a tiebreaker. I thought Pratt had a solid run to the qtrs or semis here; will that now be Natera?
– #19\u00a0Javier Estrada<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0trounced #14\u00a0Sebastian Fernandez<\/strong><\/a>\u00a02,6. In my personal world rankings I have these two literally one after the other but this was a pretty dominant win.
– #7\u00a0Luis Conrrado Moscoso Serrudo<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0took out long-time Ecuadorian veteran Jose Daniel Ugalde<\/strong> 5,10 to get his tourney started with a solid win.
– #15\u00a0Eduardo Garay Rodriguez<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0got revenge for last week’s loss by topping #18\u00a0Ernesto Ochoa<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in two close games.
– #2\u00a0Alvaro Beltran<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0was taken to the limit by long time Ecuadorian vet\u00a0Fernando Rios<\/strong><\/a>, saving match point against and advancing 11-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 16s, we started to see some serious upsets
– #1\u00a0Andree Parrilla<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0lost game one 15-8, then got an injury walkover to advance over two-time defending PARC champ Keller. Carlos looked like he was in discomfort from the latter portions of game one and didn’t event take the court for game 2. A shame, because I’d have liked to see if Keller could make a run to the semis or finals here.
– #9\u00a0Gerardo Franco Gonzalez<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0took an 11-9 close win over\u00a0Lalo Portillo<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in the latest iteration of their rivalry (they were one year apart in Juniors and faced each other often growing up).
– #5 Montoya downed doubles partner Mar 13,6, in a reverse of their match-up in Syosset.\u00a0
– Natera kept up his upsetting ways, this time topping IRT top8 player\u00a0Sebastian Franco<\/strong><\/a>\u00a011-9.
– #19 Estrada continued to dominate, this time taking out top IRT pro\u00a0Daniel De La Rosa<\/strong><\/a>\u00a011-9 in the breaker. Estrada is another example of a dominant Mexican player who rarely plays the IRT: his sole IRT appearance was in 2010, as a 14yr old, when the tour made a stop in Chihuahua (his home town)
– #6\u00a0Mario Mercado<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0beat Costa Rican #1\u00a0Andres Acu\u00f1a<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for the 2nd time in as many weeks to advance.
– #7 Moscoso wiped out Costa Rican #2\u00a0Felipe Camacho<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to advance.
– #2 Beltran recovered from his earlier match to take out the upset-minded Garay 11,1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So your quarter final seeds are: 1,9,5,20,19,7,2. 
– #1 Parrilla advanced eily over #9 Franco 9,6
– #5 Montoya dropped the first game but came back to beat Natera in a breaker.
– Hard hitting #19 Estrada came from 7-10 down in the breaker to score four unanswered and top IRT top 10 player and #6 seed Mercado 11-10.
– #7 Moscoso took a close first game in controversial fashion over #2 Beltran, who then hobbled off the court midway through the second in an injury fft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Semis: 1,5,19 and 7 seeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the semis:
– #5 Montoya trounced #1 Parrilla 6,3. This was technically their first IRT meeting; they’d met 8 times previously that I could track in the database (and likely more, since they’re the exact same age and were frequent competitors on the junior circuit). 
– #19 Estrada, if he hadn’t already made a statement in this tournament, made an even larger one in taking out #7 Moscoso in a streaky tiebreaker win. He raced to a 6-0 lead, then fell behind 12-6, then raced to a 15-12 first game win. In the second, Moscoso cruised to a 15-3 win. in the breaker, Estrada really bore down and broke away with solid play to dominate and take teh breaker 11-5. I had Moscoso winning this event, now I wonder if Estrada can beat the winner of Parrilla\/Montoya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the final, Estrada indeed got the breakthrough win, beating Montoya (14),9,3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite a weekend for the home-town 24-yr old. He beat 3 of the top 10 players in the world to win this event and, for me combined with past results is now clearly himself in that same category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doubles event:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The draw went mostly chalk to the quarters as expected, though the #10 seeded Pratt\/Garcia team easily advanced over Guatemalans\u00a0Christian Wer<\/strong><\/a> and\u00a0Javier Martinez<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the quarters: Beltran\/DLR got a walkover, the CRC team of Acuna\/Camacho took a scintillating 11-10 win over Parrilla\/Portillo, Montoya\/Mar beat a hobbled Bolivian team of Moscoso\/Keller handily, and Pratt\/Garcia took out #2 Colombian team 11-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the semis, the two top Mexican teams both advanced to force a rematch of the 2018 Mexican National finals; Beltran\/DLR over the Costa Ricans Acuna\/Camacho, and Montoya\/Mar over Pratt\/Garcia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the final, Montoya\/Mar got the better of Beltran\/DLR 7,12 to take the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That’s a wrap for the 2018-19 IRT season! When the points post to the website, i’ll scrape it and update the PRS sites with end-of-year season rankings and what not, and will do a notification post to that end with all the yearly artifacts updated. We look forward to the initial publishing of the 2019-20 IRT calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next up on the rball calendar is US Junior Nationals next weekend in Portland. After that, we have more solid Mexican non-sanctioned events, WOR outdoor nationals in July, Mexican Junior natioanls in July, and then the Pan American games in august.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Racquetball Tour<\/a> Federaci\u00f3n Boliviana De Raquetbol – Febora<\/a>Federaci\u00f3n Mexicana de Raquetbol<\/a> RKT<\/a> International Racquetball Federation – IRF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congrats to the winners on the weekend:– Singles: Javier Estrada– Doubles: Javier Mar & Rodrigo Montoya r2sports link for brackets: https:\/\/www.r2sports.com\/tourney\/home.asp?TID=30578 No database links at www.proracquetballstats.com; we don’t load up non Tier 1 events, despite how amazing the draw was. We’re reporting as fans of the pro game. And, what a tournament it was. ———————————Wrap up of … <\/p>\n

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