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Women's professional racquetball has existed since the 1970s but the women's pro tour began in 1980, when the Women's Professional Racquetball Association (WPRA) was created. [1] The tour was run by International Management Group, and did well in the early 1980s in part due to the great rivalry between Lynn Adams and Heather McKay. The WPRA ...
Hosted by USA Racquetball the US Open was held in mid-November for the first 12 years, but in 2008 the event was moved up a month to October. Doug Ganim, a multiple racquetball World Champion in Men's Doubles and former pro player on the International Racquetball Tour , was the US Open's Tournament Director for its first 25 years, but he ...
Alexandra Herrera (born January 10, 1995) is a Mexican racquetball player. She is the current World Champion in Women's Doubles (with Montserrat Mejia).A left-handed player, Herrera was the #2 player on the Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour in 2020-21 and again in 2021–22, two of her nine seasons in the LPRT top 10.
The 2022 World Championships used a best of five games match format with each game to 11 points, win by 2, with rally scoring, as used in other sports like squash and volleyball. Previously, racquetball games used side-out scoring, where players scored points only when they had won a rally which began with that player serving.
Manilla won the 2022 USA Racquetball National Women's Singles title [34] by defeating Rhonda Rajsich in the final, 11–7, 11–8, 11–1. [35] She played doubles with Aimee Roehler , and they lost in the final to Kelani Lawrence and Hollie Scott, 11–6, 11–4, 8–11, 11–8, in the final, after beating Sheryl Lotts and Rhonda Rajsich in the ...
XXI Racquetball World Championships - 2022 - Host: San Luis Potosí: Dates: August 20–27, 2022 Men's singles: Gold: Conrrado Moscoso: Silver: Rocky Carson: Bronze: Rodrigo Montoya Andrés Acuña: Women's singles: Gold: Paola Longoria: Silver: Gabriela Martínez: Bronze: Angélica Barrios Alexandra Herrera: Men's doubles: Gold: Álvaro ...
Mejía finished the 2022-23 Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour season on top of the rankings, which was her first #1 ranking and broke the 11-year run of Paola Longoria. [3] She did it with a win at the last LPRT event of the season, beating Maria Jose Vargas in the final of the LPRT Battle at the Beach Season Finale, 15–7, 3–15, 11–3. [17]
Acosta has won several medals for Mexico over her career, highlighted by gold in Women's Doubles at the 2003 Pan American Games and gold in Women's Singles at the 2022 Central American and Caribbean Games. She's also been ranked in the Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour top 10 for 9 seasons, which is tied for 11th most.