2018 Racquetball World Championships – Men's doubles explained

XIX Racquetball World Championships
- Costa Rica 2018 -
Host San José, Costa Rica
DatesAugust 10–18
Men's singles
Women's singles
Men's doubles
Gold Álvaro Beltrán & Daniel de la Rosa
Silver Rocky Carson & Sudsy Monchik
Bronze Roland Keller & Conrrado Moscoso
Tim Landeryou & Samuel Murray
Women's doubles

The International Racquetball Federation's 19th Racquetball World Championships are being held in San José, Costa Rica from August 10–18. This is the first time Worlds have been Costa Rica, and the first time a Central American country has hosted the event.

In 2016, Mexicans Álvaro Beltrán and Javier Moreno won the men's doubles World Championship for the third time as a team, when the defeated Americans Jake Bredenbeck and Jose Diaz in the final, 15–12, 15–9. Previously, the Mexicans had won in 2006 and 2012. Moreno also won the title in 2000 with Luis Bustilos. The Mexicans defeated the 2012 World Champions, Sebastian Franco and Alejandro Herrera of Colombia, in the semi-finals.

Tournament format

The 2018 World Championships used a two-stage format with an initial group stage that was a round robin with the results used to seed players for a medal round.

Group stage

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Pool A

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Álvaro Beltrán & Daniel de la Rosa3 3 0 6 0 90 28 6
Edwin Galicia & Christian Wer3 2 1 4 3 83 76 5
Yuki Nakano & Hiroshi Shimizu3 1 2 4 2 70 74 4
Alok Mehta & Thirumurugan Thiyagarajan3 0 3 0 6 25 90 3

Pool B

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Fernando Kurzbard & Shai Manzuri3 3 0 6 1 96 45 6
Gabriel Garcia & Alexander Pirie3 2 1 2 4 58 82 5
Sebastian Franco & Mario Mercado3 1 2 4 2 86 55 4
Rodrigo Salgado & Francisco Troncoso3 0 3 1 6 41 99 3

Pool C

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Rocky Carson & Sudsy Monchik3 3 0 6 0 90 26 6
Juan Francisco Cueva & Jose Daniel Ugalde3 2 1 4 3 76 61 5
Ricardo Gomez & Luis Felipe Zea3 1 2 3 4 58 47 4
Ken Cottrell & Eoin Tynan3 0 3 0 6 23 90 3

Pool D

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Roland Keller & Conrrado Moscoso3 3 0 6 1 93 57 6
Samuel Murray & Tim Landeryou3 2 1 5 2 89 60 5
Luis Perez & Ramon De Leon3 1 2 2 4 68 79 4
Moon Gyun Kim & Daeyong Kwon3 0 3 0 6 36 90 3

Medal round

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Álvaro Beltrán & Daniel de la Rosa
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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Home . internationalracquetball.com.
  2. Web site: International Racquetball Federation – Official website . 2019-09-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190806211641/http://www.internationalracquetball.com/ . 2019-08-06 . dead .