2018 Racquetball World Championships – Men'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.

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

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

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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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Players Pld W L GF GA PF PA Points
  Álvaro Beltrán & Daniel de la Rosa 3 3 0 6 0 90 28 6
  Edwin Galicia & Christian Wer 3 2 1 4 3 83 76 5
  Yuki Nakano & Hiroshi Shimizu 3 1 2 4 2 70 74 4
  Alok Mehta & Thirumurugan Thiyagarajan 3 0 3 0 6 25 90 3

Pool B

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Players Pld W L GF GA PF PA Points
  Fernando Kurzbard & Shai Manzuri 3 3 0 6 1 96 45 6
  Gabriel Garcia & Alexander Pirie 3 2 1 2 4 58 82 5
  Sebastian Franco & Mario Mercado 3 1 2 4 2 86 55 4
  Rodrigo Salgado & Francisco Troncoso 3 0 3 1 6 41 99 3
  • Note – Costa Rica defeated Colombia by injury forfeit after Colombia had won game one.

Pool C

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Players Pld W L GF GA PF PA Points
  Rocky Carson & Sudsy Monchik 3 3 0 6 0 90 26 6
  Juan Francisco Cueva & Jose Daniel Ugalde 3 2 1 4 3 76 61 5
  Ricardo Gomez & Luis Felipe Zea 3 1 2 3 4 58 47 4
  Ken Cottrell & Eoin Tynan 3 0 3 0 6 23 90 3

Pool D

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Players Pld W L GF GA PF PA Points
  Roland Keller & Conrrado Moscoso 3 3 0 6 1 93 57 6
  Samuel Murray & Tim Landeryou 3 2 1 5 2 89 60 5
  Luis Perez & Ramon De Leon 3 1 2 2 4 68 79 4
  Moon Gyun Kim & Daeyong Kwon 3 0 3 0 6 36 90 3

Medal round

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Round of 16 Quarter finals Semi finals Finals
            
1   Álvaro Beltrán & Daniel de la Rosa 15, 15
16   Rodrigo Salgado & Francisco Troncoso 8, 8
1   Mexico 15, 15
9   Dominican Republic 11, 11
9   Ramon De Leon & Luis Perez 15, 15
8   Juan Francisco Cueva & Jose Daniel Ugalde 9, 11
1   Mexico 15, 15
4   Bolivia 14, 8
5   Gabriel Garcia & Alexander Pirie 11, 15, 9
12   Yuki Nakano & Hiroshi Shimizu 15, 12, 11
12   Japan 4, 8
4   Bolivia 15, 15
13   Ken Cottrell & Eoin Tynan 5, 13
4   Roland Keller & Conrrado Moscoso 15, 15
1   Mexico 10, 15, 11
3   USA 15, 9, 2
3   Rocky Carson & Sudsy Monchik 15, 14, 11
14   Daeyong Kwon & Moon Gyun Kim 4, 15, 3
3   USA 15, 15
11   Colombia 11, 13
11   Sebastian Franco & Mario Mercado 15, 15
6   Edwin Galicia & Christian Wer 12, 5
3   USA 15, 15
7   Canada 12, 2
7   Tim Landeryou & Samuel Murray 15, 15
10   Ricardo Gomez & Luis Felipe Zea 9, 6
7   Canada 15, 15
2   Argentina 3, 9
15   Alok Mehta & Thirumurugan Thyagarajan 1, 7
2   Fernando Kurzbard & Shai Manzuri 15, 15
Winners
  Álvaro Beltrán & Daniel de la Rosa

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References

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  1. ^ "Home". internationalracquetball.com.
  2. ^ "International Racquetball Federation – Official website". Archived from the original on 2019-08-06. Retrieved 2019-09-09.