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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 ...
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.
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]
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 ...
She began to play the Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour (LPRT) full time in the 2013-14 season, and she finished that season in the top 10 at #6. [28] Lambert is the fifth Canadian to be ranked in the women's pro top 10 following Christie Van Hees, Jennifer Saunders, Lori-Jane Powell, and Heather Stupp. Lambert had played some pro tour ...
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.
The UnitedHealthcare US Open Racquetball Championships is the premier professional racquetball event. It is a Grand Slam event with men and women competing from the International Racquetball Tour and Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour, respectively. Beginning in 2014, the US Open added a pro doubles division.
She is the current Pan American Champion in Women's Singles, Women's Doubles, as well as the Women's Team event. Vargas is also the current South American Racquetball Champion in Women's Singles and Doubles. Vargas has ten wins on the Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour (LPRT), [1] and was the LPRT's #1 player in 2023-24.