Racketball

Rhonda Rajsich rocks Paola Longoria in thrilling women’s final By TIMOTHY BAGHURST – Squash Mad Racquetball Correspondent   San José Indoor Club, Costa Rica, was the host venue for the 2017 Pan Am Championship, and what a Championship it turned out to be! Following an opening ceremony that included the presence of the Costa Rican President [...]

‘Bobby’ dazzles to beat Mercado in Minnesota By LAURA McCORMICK – Squash Mad Racquetball Correspondent   The World Racquetball Tour Midwest Championships were hosted at Life Time Fitness Moore Lake in Fridley, MN. The WRT divisions were run in tandem to the Minnesota State Championships, which are held annually. With the Mexican National Championships being [...]

  Waselenchuck adds to resume, but young upstart Parrilla wins hearts By MARK PALERMO – Squash Mad Racquetball Correspondent   Racquetball has an unusual configuration of three professional tours: The Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour (LPRT), The World Racquetball Tour (WRT), and International Racquetball Tour (IRT). With respect to the male tours, the IRT is a [...]

By Ladies Pro Racquetball Tour  Paola Longoria won her 80th professional title at the Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour’s Green Brook New Jersey Open. This marks a milestone in Longoria’s record-setting career. The Mexican superstar set the mark just before heading into another run, defending her Mexican national championship. Paola defeated number 5 seed Cristina Amaya (Colombia) [...]

Hot Rod’s power show wins it By LAURA McCORMICK – Squash Mad North American Racquetball Correspondent   Number three seed Rodrigo Montoya won The Mount Rainer Open, hosted in downtown Seattle at the Washington Athletic Club, to enhance his rapidly-growing reputation. The Mount Rainer Open saw a 40-strong draw with strong international and local participation. [...]

All-Mexican final in West Coast Champs By Laura McCormick – Squash Mad US Racquetball Correspondent   The inaugural West Coast Championship, held in the newly renovated Big C Club in Concord, California came down to two, an all-Mexican affair between big hitters Alex Cardona and Alex Landa. To get there, they had to navigate their [...]

Mexicans dominate as Hot Rod wins year-opening tourney in Austin  By LAURA McCORMICK   The World Racquetball Tour began the new year with its biggest event of the season. The Longhorn Open sells out within a few weeks, and at 336 participants, this year’s event sold out in a record six days. Housed in Austin, [...]

Mighty Mexican powers through in straight games By Laura McCormick in Alamo City   The Alamo City Open in San Antonio, Texas served as the final instalment of what has been a lengthy but very exciting World Racquetball Tour (WRT) year. In fact, coming into the final event of the season the previous five tournaments [...]

Packed stands enjoy stars of the future By TIMOTHY BAGHURST in Mexico   Last week more than 180 juniors between the ages of eight and 19 descended on the industrial city of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, for the annual Junior Racquetball World Championships. Hosted at the incredible facility of La Loma Centro Deportivo, players from [...]

Racquetball’s biggest worldwide event puts on a show By TIMOTHY BAGHURST – Squash Mad US Racquetball Correspondent   Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States serves as the annual host city of racquetball’s US Open, the biggest event on the sport’s calendar. During the first week of October, more than 700 competitors from 14 countries descended [...]

Squash’s video output dwarfs racquetball efforts in the USA By Alan Thatcher, Squash Mad Editor My friend Freddy Ramirez writes a terrifically engaging racquetball blog called Restrung Magazine. We have been communicating online for some years and frequently discuss ways in which racquetball (or racketball) can find some harmony with squash to produce some mutually [...]

Rackets Academy leaders question the wisdom of new name By Alan Thatcher, Squash Mad Editor Further opposition to plans to rename racketball as Squash 57 is surfacing in Yorkshire by the organisers of a popular racketball series aimed at grass-roots players. The Rackets Academy, run by long-time Chapel Allerton coach Peter Edwards and his fiancee Elspeth [...]

High standards at high altitude in Albuquerque By TIMOTHY BAGHURST – Squash Mad USA Racquetball Correspondent   On August 30th almost 200 racquetball players from the ages of 35 to 90+ descended on Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA for the Senior World Championships. Perhaps descended isn’t the correct word, as the city sits at over 1,600m [...]

Racketball: a (very) brief history; and why WSF should think again By DAVID IRESON – Squash Mad Correspondent in Aberdeen   The passage of time allows a great deal of opportunity for reflection and review of past events, to scrutinise their efficacy as carriers of both positive and negative actions and impacts on our daily [...]

‘Self-indulgent, corporate name-change is meaningless and pointless’ says club manager By ALAN THATCHER   A major squash facility in Norfolk has circulated an open letter to England Squash in response to the decision to rebrand racketball as Squash 57. Hannah Colby, manager of East Anglia Tennis and Squash Club, in Norwich, poses questions about the [...]