{"id":847,"date":"2019-10-14T19:26:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T19:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/?p=847"},"modified":"2019-10-29T17:19:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T17:19:04","slug":"chihuahua-ymca-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.proracquetballstats.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/14\/chihuahua-ymca-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Chihuahua YMCA Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Landa the double winner in Chihuahua this past weekend. Photo unk<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A RKT-associated tourney was put on this past weekend with little fan fare…. but it featured most of the top Mexican pros and some excellent singles and doubles action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a quick wrap-up. Follow RKT<\/a> to get video streams of most of the good matches from the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to Jaime Martell Neri<\/a> for the heads up and sending me the draws \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Singles wrap-up<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the qtrs:
– #1 Alex Landa <\/a>advanced over a local player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #5 Eduardo Garay Rodriguez<\/a> upset Alan Natera Chavez<\/a> to move on; Natera was upset early in the US Open and I probably would have favored him in this match too. Garay has been trying to get it going this season but has been unlucky in match-ups on the pro tour thus far (his losses this season have been to Carson, DLR and Keller; a tough slate).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #3 Javier Mar<\/a> took out Javier Estrada<\/a>, who was not able to replicate his success from the Black Gold event in his home town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– #7 Alex Cardona<\/a> upset #2 Rodrigo Montoya Sol\u00eds<\/a> to move on. This was much better than a 2\/7 match-up; the two-time WRT winner holds a 4-2 career h2h lead over Montoya on that tour … and beat him again here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the semis:
– #1 Landa topped hard-hitting #5 Garay
– #3 Mar beat #7 Cardona (11),4,4; I wonder if this score-line indicates a lack of match fitness for Cardona; after beating the very top-quality Mar in game one, he gets wiped out in games 2 and 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the final: #1 Landa eked by #3 Mar 14,10, a scoreline I would have expected knowing the quality of these two players. Mar has more than demonstrated that he’s a top 8 player in the world through his periodic IRT results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doubles wrap-up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The doubles draw was solid, and quality teams such as Ernesto Ochoa<\/a>\/Estrada, the Nateras and the Garays couldn’t even make the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final ended up being #1 vs #2: Landa\/Cardona d Montoya\/Mar 11-7 to make Landa a double winner on the weekend. Its saying something when the defending Pan American champion team of Montoya\/Mar is beaten by their countrymen on the depth of the doubles circuit right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good little tourney
International Racquetball Tour<\/a>
Federaci\u00f3n Mexicana de Raquetbol<\/a>
RKT<\/a>
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A RKT-associated tourney was put on this past weekend with little fan fare…. but it featured most of the top Mexican pros and some excellent singles and doubles action. Here’s a quick wrap-up. Follow RKT to get video streams of most of the good matches from the weekend. Thanks to Jaime Martell Neri for the heads up and sending … <\/p>\n

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