{"id":777,"date":"2019-09-26T18:39:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T18:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/?p=777"},"modified":"2019-09-26T18:39:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T18:39:48","slug":"10th-annual-3wallball-world-championships-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/26\/10th-annual-3wallball-world-championships-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"10th Annual 3Wallball World Championships Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Welcome to the last major WOR event of the year, the big outdoor event held in the shadow of the Stratosphere hotel in Las Vegas, NV. There’s 280 players from 6 different countries represented and competing this weekend, and the massive draw includes most every major name in the outdoor game today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vegas venue is primarily 3-wall courts, but some one-wall events are included this weekend, so we’ll note the court type both below and in the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

@R2 R2 Sports Tournaments<\/a> home page for the event: https:\/\/www.r2sports.com\/website\/event-website.asp?TID=30648<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lets review the draws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Men’s Pro Singles:
Men’s 3-wall singles is just a 6-man draw, but it includes the defending champ\u00a0Nick Montalbano<\/strong><\/a>, the defending runner up in\u00a0William Rolon<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and the 2018 Huntington Beach outdoor nationals champ\u00a0Luis R Avila<\/strong><\/a>. Throw in a top east coast amateur in\u00a0Thomas Gerhardt<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and a top indoor touring pro in Costa Rican #1\u00a0Andres Acu\u00f1a<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and we should expect some solid matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll predict a rematch of last year’s singles final, and a repeat win for #1 seed Montalbano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

click here for a list of all past Men’s Singles major WOR tourney winners: http:\/\/rball.pro\/AA519C<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women’s Pros Singles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women’s 3-wall singles features 7 pros with solid outdoor creds. #1 seed\u00a0Rhonda Rajsich<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has multiple outdoor national championships to her name, but has never won Vegas. 3-time defending singles Vegas champ\u00a0Janel Tisinger-Ledkins<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is ineligible to compete this year, so we’ll have a new champ. The #2 seed is one-wall specialist Floridian Michelle Herbert<\/strong>; she’ll be challenged in the semis by a hard-hitting LPRT vet in either Bolivian\u00a0Masiel Rivera Oporto<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(fresh of a semis appearance in Chesapeake) or Colombian\u00a0Adriana Riveros<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(who made the semis at the Pan American Games in August).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll predict its Rhonda vs Rivera in the final, with Rhonda finally taking home a Vegas singles title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

click here for a list of all past Women’s singles major WOR tourney winners: http:\/\/rball.pro\/0FE709<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Enough about singles; lets get to the doubles draws…there’s full slates of both 1-wall and 3-wall doubles events. We’ll start with the 3-wall previews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Men’s Pro Doubles 3-wall<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huge draw; 16 teams here to compete, headlined by the #1 seeds and top Mexican pairing of\u00a0Daniel De La Rosa<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Alvaro Beltran<\/strong><\/a>. These two are the defending Vegas doubles champs, the defending Outdoor Nationals champs, and have a slew of major pro and international titles to their credit. They’re easily the most accomplished Men’s doubles team today and are the favorites here as the #1 seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DLR and Beltran have their work cut out for them though: they could face\u00a0Rocky Carson<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0with partner\u00a0Alejandro Barcelo<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in the quarters, then top California outdoor players\u00a0Brandon Davis<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and Jesus Ustarroz<\/strong> in the semis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other side of the draw, a slew of teams with top outdoor players are present, and it could be a shootout. Top one-wall guru\u00a0Robert Sostre<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is teamed with Chris McDonald<\/strong> as the #3 seed, Vegas outdoor legend\u00a0Rick Koll<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is teamed with Paddleball legend\u00a0Emmitt Coe<\/strong><\/a>, and you have the likes of Montalbano,\u00a0Charlie Pratt<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>Greg Solis<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and others in the mix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like the #1 seed to make the final and win, but have no idea who to predict out of the wide-open bottom draw. We’ll go chalk and predict the 2-seeds make it through to the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here for a list of all past Men’s doubles major WOR tourney winners from 2006-present (we don’t have older data right now): http:\/\/rball.pro\/4C7C5B<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women’s Pro doubles 3-wall<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six teams here, and the top two seeds are the finalists from last year who competed to an 11-10 tiebreaker contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

#1 Rajsich\/Herbert should force a rematch in the final with #2 seeds\u00a0Michelle De La Rosa<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and Chilean\u00a0Carla Mu\u00f1oz Montesinos<\/strong><\/a>, who won the Outdoor nationals in dominant fashion in California earlier this year. Standing in their way are teams featuring top LPRT player\u00a0Jessica Parrilla<\/strong><\/a>, Hall of Famer\u00a0Jacqueline Paraiso-Larsson<\/strong><\/a>, and an all-Virginia team of\u00a0Carrie Handfinger Hoeft<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Amie LeBrun Brewer<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in the 4th seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m predicting mDLR\/Munoz take the title in another tiebreaker over #1 Rajsich\/Hebert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

click here for a list of all past Women’s doubles major WOR tourney winners from 2008-present: http:\/\/rball.pro\/37AA13<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mixed Pro doubles 3-wall<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A solid 8-team draw featuring both of last year’s finalists plus the finalists from Florida Beach Bash (Sostre\/Herbert) as the 3-seed and the 2018 outdoor nationals finalists (Coe\/Paraiso) as the 5th seeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like a rematch of last year’s final and I like a repeat title for Koll and Rajsich over the husband-wife duo of DLR\/mDLR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

click here for a list of all past Mixed doubles major WOR tourney winners from 2008-present: http:\/\/rball.pro\/95A44A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now for 1-wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Men’s 1-wall Pro Doubles:
A 9-team slate headlined by the #1 seed duo of two of today’s best one-wall players, New Yorkers Sostre and Rolon. On the bottom half, #2 seeded DLR teams with Florida one-wall specialist Ignacio Espinal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hard to root against Sostre\/Rolon to win this draw, but they’ll have to work for it, as t he likes of Carson and Montalbano are in the top half of this draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women’s 1-wall Pro Doubles:
Three teams here, headlined by one-wall Florida specialist Herbert teaming with LPRT veteran international Munoz; they’re the favorites in a small draw that may be over by the time this publishes \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mixed 1-wall Pro doubles:
#1 seeds Koll & Rajsich the favorites to do an unprecedented second straight double (winning both the Mixed 3-wall and Mixed 1-wall doubles at this event). Standing in their way are the #2 seeds Montalbano\/Munoz and #3 seeds Israel Torres\/Herbert looking to get the upset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Be on the lookout for streaming notifications starting as soon as you read this; the tourney is already underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WOR – World Outdoor Racquetball<\/a>
LPRT<\/a>
International Racquetball Tour<\/a>
Federaci\u00f3n Mexicana de Raquetbol<\/a>
Fecoracquet Fecoracquet<\/a>
Federaci\u00f3n Costarricense de Racquetball<\/a>
Federaci\u00f3n Chilena Racquetball<\/a>
Federaci\u00f3n Boliviana de Racquetball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the last major WOR event of the year, the big outdoor event held in the shadow of the Stratosphere hotel in Las Vegas, NV. There’s 280 players from 6 different countries represented and competing this weekend, and the massive draw includes most every major name in the outdoor game today. The Vegas venue … <\/p>\n

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