2018_Racquetball_World_Championships_–_Men's_doubles

2018 Racquetball World Championships – Men's doubles

2018 Racquetball World Championships – Men's doubles

Add article description


The International Racquetball Federation's 19th Racquetball World Championships are being held in San José, Costa Rica from August 10–18. This is the first time Worlds have been Costa Rica, and the first time a Central American country has hosted the event.

Quick Facts

In 2016, Mexicans Álvaro Beltrán and Javier Moreno won the men's doubles World Championship for the third time as a team, when the defeated Americans Jake Bredenbeck and Jose Diaz in the final, 15–12, 15–9. Previously, the Mexicans had won in 2006 and 2012. Moreno also won the title in 2000 with Luis Bustilos. The Mexicans defeated the 2012 World Champions, Sebastian Franco and Alejandro Herrera of Colombia, in the semi-finals.

Tournament format

The 2018 World Championships used a two-stage format with an initial group stage that was a round robin with the results used to seed players for a medal round.

Group stage

[1]

Pool A

More information Players, Pld ...

Pool B

More information Players, Pld ...
  • Note – Costa Rica defeated Colombia by injury forfeit after Colombia had won game one.

Pool C

More information Players, Pld ...

Pool D

More information Players, Pld ...

Medal round

Round of 16 Quarter finals Semi finals Finals
            
1 Mexico Álvaro Beltrán & Daniel de la Rosa 15, 15
16 Chile Rodrigo Salgado & Francisco Troncoso 8, 8
1 Mexico Mexico 15, 15
9 Dominican Republic Dominican Republic 11, 11
9 Dominican Republic Ramon De Leon & Luis Perez 15, 15
8 Ecuador Juan Francisco Cueva & Jose Daniel Ugalde 9, 11
1 Mexico Mexico 15, 15
4 Bolivia Bolivia 14, 8
5 Costa Rica Gabriel Garcia & Alexander Pirie 11, 15, 9
12 Japan Yuki Nakano & Hiroshi Shimizu 15, 12, 11
12  Japan 4, 8
4 Bolivia Bolivia 15, 15
13 Republic of Ireland Ken Cottrell & Eoin Tynan 5, 13
4 Bolivia Roland Keller & Conrrado Moscoso 15, 15
1 Mexico Mexico 10, 15, 11
3  USA 15, 9, 2
3 United States Rocky Carson & Sudsy Monchik 15, 14, 11
14 South Korea Daeyong Kwon & Moon Gyun Kim 4, 15, 3
3 United States USA 15, 15
11 Colombia Colombia 11, 13
11 Colombia Sebastian Franco & Mario Mercado 15, 15
6 Guatemala Edwin Galicia & Christian Wer 12, 5
3 United States USA 15, 15
7  Canada 12, 2
7 Canada Tim Landeryou & Samuel Murray 15, 15
10 Venezuela Ricardo Gomez & Luis Felipe Zea 9, 6
7 Canada Canada 15, 15
2 Argentina Argentina 3, 9
15 India Alok Mehta & Thirumurugan Thyagarajan 1, 7
2 Argentina Fernando Kurzbard & Shai Manzuri 15, 15
More information Winners ...

[2]


References

  1. "Home". internationalracquetball.com.
  2. "International Racquetball Federation – Official website". Archived from the original on 2019-08-06. Retrieved 2019-09-09.

Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article 2018_Racquetball_World_Championships_–_Men's_doubles, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.