2014 Racquetball World Championships – Men's Singles

XVII Racquetball World Championships
- Canada 2014 -
Host Burlington, Ontario
Canada Canada
Dates June 14 - June 21
Men's singles
Gold United States Rocky Carson
Silver Bolivia Conrado Moscoso
Bronze United States Jose Rojas
Bolivia Carlos Keller
Women's singles
Men's doubles
Women's doubles

The International Racquetball Federation's 17th Racquetball World Championships were held in Burlington, Ontario, Canada from June 14 to 21, 2014.[1] This was the second time Worlds were in Canada. Previously, they were in Montreal in 1992.

In Men's Singles, American Rocky Carson was the three time defending champion, and he won gold for a fourth time, which made him the most decorated men's racquetball player at the World Championships. In capturing the gold, Carson won all of his matches in two straight games.

Conrado Moscoso of Bolivia was the surprise silver medalist. Moscoso defeated the 2012 silver medalist Polo Gutierrez of Mexico in the quarterfinals and the beat fellow Bolivian Carlos Keller in the semi-finals to reach the final.

The other semi-final was between two Americans: Carson and Jose Rojas. The Americans were on the same side of the draw, because Rojas lost to Fernando Rios of Ecuador in a great match that went tie-breaker in the round robin part of the competition.[2] Sadly for Rios, his victory didn't lead to a great position in the elimination draw, as he had to play Gutierrez in the second round, as Gutierrez missed one of his round robin matches, which put him fourth in his group. Gutierrez defeated Rios in two games.

Mexican Alvaro Beltran was the other former World Champion in the men's draw (Beltran won the title in 2000), but he lost early in the elimination round as a result of a forfeit to Jose Daniel Ugalde of Ecuador.

Tournament format

The 2014 World Championships was the first competition with an initial round robin stage that was used to seed players for an elimination qualification round. Previously, players were seeded into an elimination round based on how their countries had done at previous World Championships, and then a second team competition was also played.

Round robin[3]

Pool A

Player Pld W L GF GA PF PA Points
United States Rocky Carson 3 3 0 6 0 90 35 6
Cuba Norlen Jimenez 3 2 1 4 3 76 86 5
Argentina Fernando Kurzbard 3 1 2 3 4 65 81 4
Ecuador Jose Daniel Ugalde 3 0 3 0 6 45 90 3

Pool B

Player Pld W L GF GA PF PA Points
Canada Tim Landeryou 3 3 0 6 1 96 48 6
Catalonia Victor Monterrat 3 2 1 4 3 70 75 5
Venezuela Ezequiel Paez 3 1 2 3 5 78 90 4
Ukraine Anthony DeFusto 3 0 3 2 6 70 79 3

Pool C

Player Pld W L GF GA PF PA Points
United States Jose Rojas 3 2 1 5 2 95 52 5
Ecuador Fernando Rios 3 3 0 6 1 93 51 6
Argentina Pablo Kurzbard 3 1 2 2 4 62 67 4
Poland Peter Rakowski 3 0 0 6 10 90 0 3

Pool D

Player Pld W L GF GA PF PA Points
Canada Samuel Murray 3 3 0 6 0 90 14 6
Venezuela Roberto Santander 3 2 1 4 2 67 37 5
Catalonia Dani Pascual 3 1 2 0 6 44 60 4
England Timothy Baghurst 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0

Pool E

Player Pld W L GF GA PF PA Points
Mexico Alvaro Beltran 3 3 0 6 0 90 30 6
Costa Rica Andres Aviles Solera 3 2 1 4 2 68 56 5
Puerto Rico Michael Barrett 3 0 3 0 6 33 90 3
South Korea Mingyu Kim 3 1 2 2 4 56 71 4

Pool F

Player Pld W L GF GA PF PA Points
Japan Michimune Kono 3 2 1 5 2 87 54 5
Chile Francisco Troncoso 3 2 1 4 3 76 65 5
Dominican Republic Roman De Leon 3 2 1 4 3 97 74 5
India Rajiv Varadarajan 3 0 3 0 6 22 90 0

Pool G

Player Pld W L GF GA PF PA Points
Costa Rica Felipe Camacho 3 2 1 4 3 74 82 5
Puerto Rico Fernando Rivera 3 1 2 2 4 62 60 4
South Korea Daeyong Kwon 3 1 2 4 4 84 81 4
Mexico Polo Gutierrez 2 2 1 4 3 70 66 4

Pool H

Player Pld W L GF GA PF PA Points
Japan Takaaki Hirose 3 3 0 6 0 90 28 6
Dominican Republic Junior Rodriguez 3 2 1 4 2 70 57 5
India Alok Mehta 3 1 2 2 4 50 80 4
Chile Rodrigo Salgado 3 0 3 0 6 55 90 3

Pool I

Player Pld W L GF GA PF PA Points
Colombia Sebastian Franco 3 3 0 6 0 90 47 6
Bolivia Conrado Moscoso 3 2 1 4 2 82 63 5
Guatemala Edwin Galicia 3 1 2 2 4 57 82 4
Republic of Ireland Mark Murphy 3 0 3 0 6 53 90 3

Pool J

Player Pld W L GF GA PF PA Points
Bolivia Carlos Keller 3 3 0 6 0 90 26 6
Colombia Alejandro Herrera 3 2 1 4 2 70 42 5
Republic of Ireland Patrick Hanley 3 1 2 2 4 58 60 4
Guatemala Pedro Manolo Sandoval 0 0 0 0 0 0 90 0

Elimination round[4]

First round Second round Third round Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
                  
 
 
1 United States Rocky Carson 15, 15
33 Puerto Rico Michael Barrett 3, 1
33 Puerto Rico Michael Barrett 15, 15
32 Guatemala Pedro Manolo Sandoval 0, 0
1 United States Rocky Carson 15, 15
17 South Korea Daeyong Kwan 4, 1
 
 
17 South Korea Daeyong Kwon 15, 15
16 Catalonia Victor Monterrat 11, 3
 
 
1 United States Rocky Carson 15, 15
9 Colombia Sebastian Franco 8, 10
 
 
9 Colombia Sebastian Franco 15, 15
24 Chile Francisco Troncoso 4, 1
41
24
9 Colombia Sebastian Franco 15, 15
8 Japan Takaaki Hirose 11, 8
25
40
25 Argentina Pablo Kurzbard 8, 9
8 Japan Takaaki Hirose 15, 15
 
 
1 United States Rocky Carson 15, 15
20 United States Jose Rojas 8, 12
 
 
5 Mexico Alvaro Beltran 0, 0
37 Ecuador Jose Daniel Ugalde 15, 15 - forfeit
37 Ecuador Jose Daniel Ugalde 15, 15
28 Puerto Rico Fernando Rivera 2, 2
37 Ecuador Jose Daniel Ugalde 11, 15, 4
12 Colombia Alejandro Herrera 15, 8, 11
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44  
21 Venezuela Ezequiel Paez 1, 10
12 Colombia Alejandro Herrera 15, 15
 
 
12 Colombia Alejandro Herrera 6, 7
20 United States Jose Rojas 15, 15
 
 
13 Dominican Republic Roman De Leon 7, 2
20 United States Jose Rojas 15, 15
45  
20  
20 United States Jose Rojas 15, 15
29 Guatemala Edwin Galicia 4, 10
29 Guatemala Edwin Galicia 15, 15
36 Chile Rodrigo Salgado 4, 3
29 Guatemala Edwin Galicia 15, 15
4 Canada Samuel Murray 12, 12
 
 
1 United States Rocky Carson 15, 15
11 Bolivia Conrado Moscoso 3, 8
 
 
3 Ecuador Fernando Rios 5, 6
35 Mexico Polo Gutierrez 15, 15
35 Mexico Polo Gutierrez 15, 15
30 Republic of Ireland Patrick Hanley 4, 9
35 Mexico Polo Gutierrez 15, 15
14 Costa Rica Andres Aviles Solera 6, 6
 
 
19 Venezuela Roberto Santander 15, 10, 0
14 Costa Rica Andres Aviles Solera 14, 15, 11
 
 
35 Mexico Polo Gutierrez 14, 15, 10
11 Bolivia Conrado Moscoso 15, 2, 11
 
 
11 Bolivia Conrado Moscoso 15, 15
22 Argentina Fernando Kurzbard 6, 14
43  
22  
11 Bolivia Conrado Moscoso 15, 15
6 Japan Michimune Kono 9, 11
27 India Alok Mehta 15, 15
38 Ukraine Anthony DeFusto 0, 0
27 India Alok Mehta 6, 6
6 Japan Michimune Kono 15, 15
 
 
11 Bolivia Conrado Moscoso 15, 11, 11
10 Bolivia Carlos Keller 11, 15, 3
 
 
7 Costa Rica Felipe Camacho 10, 15, 7
26 South Korea Mingyu Kim 15, 14, 11
39 Republic of Ireland Mark Murphy
26 South Korea Mingyu Kim
26 Korea Mingyu Kim 7, 6
10 Bolivia Carlos Keller 15, 15
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23 Catalonia Dani Pascual 3, 10
10 Bolivia Carlos Keller 15, 15
 
 
10 Bolivia Carlos Keller 15, 15
2 Canada Tim Landeryou 6, 12
 
 
15 Dominican Republic Junior Rodriguez 11, 7
18 Cuba Noslen Jimenez 15, 15
 
 
18 Cuba Noslen Jimenez 11, 10
2 Canada Tim Landeryou 15, 15
31 India Rajiv Varadarajan 15, 6, 4
34 Poland Peter Rakowski 5, 15, 11
Poland Peter Rakowski 3, 1
2 Canada Tim Landeryou 15, 15
 
 
Winner
Rocky Carson United States

References

  1. ↑ http://www.internationalracquetball.com/news/2014/2/irf-xvii-world-racquetball-championship-burlington-2014.aspx
  2. ↑ http://www.theracquetballblog.com/17th_IRF_World Championships_Day_3
  3. ↑ https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vqu5udsf66vl1q3/AABgKmVqls7YoTrZnUb89oNDa/1-Round_Robin/R-robin-02-Men%20Singles-1.pdf
  4. ↑ https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vqu5udsf66vl1q3/AAAmVV9fhdrCwakshgxnNVqLa/2-Draws/Draw-02-Men%20Singles-2.pdf
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