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The International Racquetball Federation's 22nd Racquetball World Championships were held at the Thousand Oaks Family YMCA in San Antonio, Texas, United States from August 24–31, 2024. [ 1 ] The 2024 World Championships are also the qualifying event for the 2025 World Games in Chengdu, China.
[8] [9] In 2007, the teams moved to the Galen Center as their home court, but use the North Gym and Lyon Center main gym if the Galen Center is reserved for other events. [10] The USC Trojans men's basketball team has also used the main gym for exhibition games. [11] The Lyon Center had its second floor renovated in 2008. [4]
Previously, racquetball games used side-out scoring, where players scored points only when they had won a rally which began with that player serving. Rallies won when not serving were simply side-outs: the rally losing player lost the serve and the rally winning player won the opportunity to serve, but did not win a point.
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 ...
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.
IRT matches were best of five games to 11 points each beginning in 1981 with each game won by a minimum of two points [6] (e.g., a 12–10 score can end a game, but 11-10 cannot). But in the middle of the 2017–18 season, the IRT changed its match scoring from best of 5 games to 11 points to a best of 3 games with the first 2 games to 15 ...
The women's singles event in racquetball at the 2022 World Games took place from 10 to 13 July 2022 at the University of Alabama Birmingham in Birmingham, United States. [ 1 ] Mexican Paola Longoria won the competition , defeating Guatemalan Gabriela Martinez in the final.
Racquetball was part of the first World Games in 1981 at Santa Clara. These competitions also count as the first Racquetball World Championships . Racquetball was not played at the World Games in 1989 , 1997 , 2001 , and 2005 as no court was available.