2014 Racquetball World Championships – Men's doubles explained

XVII Racquetball World Championships
- Canada 2014 -
HostBurlington, Ontario
DatesJune 14–21
Men's singles
Women's singles
Men's doubles
Gold Sebastian Franco & Alejandro Herrera
Silver
Bronze Conrrado Moscoso & Mario Mercado
Ben Croft & Tom Fuhrmann
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.

The men's doubles final was between two surprise finalists, as neither the #1 seeded USA team of Ben Croft and Tom Fuhrmann nor #2 seeds Mexicans Álvaro Beltrán and Edson Martinez made the final. In fact, the Mexicans didn't even make the podium.

Instead, Colombians Sebastian Franco and Alejandro Herrera defeated Canadians Mike Green and Vincent Gagnon in the final, 15–11, 15–5, which was the first Men's doubles World Championship not won by either the USA or Mexico. The Canadians had defeated the Colombians in two straight games in the round robin stage of play, but Colombia was able to reverse that result in the final.

Franco and Herrera defeated Beltran and Martinez in the quarter-finals, denying the Mexicans a place on the podium, and then beat Bolivians Conrrado Moscoso and Mario Mercado in the semi-finals. Green and Gagnon beat Americans Croft and Fuhrmann in the other semi-final. Croft won gold in Men's doubles (with Mitch Williams) at his previous appearance at Worlds in 2010.

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

Pool A

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Ben Croft & Tom Fuhrmann2 2 0 4 0 60 23 4
Joaquin Solera & Pablo Sauma2 1 1 2 2 43 40 3
Francisco Troncoso & Rodrigo Salgado2 0 2 0 4 20 60 2

Pool B

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Álvaro Beltrán & Edson Martinez2 2 0 4 0 60 15 4
Joaquin Solera & Pablo Sauma2 1 1 2 2 45 30 3
Pedro Manolo Sandoval & Edwin Galicia0 0 2 0 4 0 60 0

Pool C

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César Castillo & César Castro3 3 0 6 1 95 64 4
Fernando Rios & Jose Daniel Alvarez3 2 1 5 3 105 61 3
Mingyu Kim & Daeyong Kwon3 1 2 3 4 71 68 0
Victor Montserrat & Dani Pascual 3 0 3 0 6 25 90 0

Pool D

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Mike Green & Vincent Gagnon3 3 0 6 0 90 38 6
Sebastian Franco & Alejandro Herrera3 2 1 4 2 82 52 5
Hiroshi Shimizu & Michimune Kono3 1 2 2 4 59 68 4
Michael Barrett & Fernando Rivera3 0 3 0 6 17 90 3

Pool E

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Daniel Maggi & Shai Manzuri3 3 0 6 1 97 45 6
Conrrado Moscoso & Mario Mercado3 2 1 5 2 88 57 5
Pat O'Donnell & Conor Skehan3 1 2 2 4 53 75 4
Pratap Ballalasamudra & Sumeet Kamat 3 0 3 0 6 29 90 3

Elimination round

Source[3]

width=100% Winners
Sebastian Franco & Alejandro Herrera

Notes and References

  1. Web site: IRF:: International Racquetball Federation - IRF XVII World Racquetball Championship Burlington 2014 . 2014-07-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140315013614/http://www.internationalracquetball.com/news/2014/2/irf-xvii-world-racquetball-championship-burlington-2014.aspx . 2014-03-15 . dead .
  2. Web site: IRF 2014 World Championships - Men's Doubles - Round Robin . Dropbox . 29 December 2022.
  3. Web site: IRF 2014 World Championships - Men's Doubles . Dropbox . 29 December 2022.