2014 Racquetball World Championships – Men's doubles

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XVII Racquetball World Championships
- Canada 2014 -
Host Burlington, Ontario
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada
DatesJune 14–21
Men's singles
Women's singles
Men's doubles
Gold Gold medal.svg Flag of Colombia.svg Sebastian Franco & Alejandro Herrera
Silver Silver medal.svg Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Mike Green & Vincent Gagnon
Bronze Bronze medal.svg Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg Conrrado Moscoso & Mario Mercado
Flag of the United States.svg 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.

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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

Source [2]

PlayerPldWLGFGAPFPAPoints
Flag of the United States.svg Ben Croft & Tom Fuhrmann2204060234
Flag of Costa Rica.svg Joaquin Solera & Pablo Sauma2112243403
Flag of Chile.svg Francisco Troncoso & Rodrigo Salgado2020420602

Pool B

PlayerPldWLGFGAPFPAPoints
Flag of Mexico.svg Álvaro Beltrán & Edson Martinez2204060154
Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Joaquin Solera & Pablo Sauma2112245303
Flag of Guatemala.svg Pedro Manolo Sandoval & Edwin Galicia002040600

Pool C

PlayerPldWLGFGAPFPAPoints
Flag of Venezuela.svg César Castillo & César Castro3306195644
Flag of Ecuador.svg Fernando Rios & Jose Daniel Alvarez32153105613
Flag of South Korea.svg Mingyu Kim & Daeyong Kwon3123471680
Flag of Catalonia.svg Victor Montserrat & Dani Pascual3030625900

Pool D

PlayerPldWLGFGAPFPAPoints
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Mike Green & Vincent Gagnon 3306090386
Flag of Colombia.svg Sebastian Franco & Alejandro Herrera3214282525
Flag of Japan.svg Hiroshi Shimizu & Michimune Kono3122459684
Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Michael Barrett & Fernando Rivera3030617903

Pool E

PlayerPldWLGFGAPFPAPoints
Flag of Argentina.svg Daniel Maggi & Shai Manzuri3306197456
Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg Conrrado Moscoso & Mario Mercado 3215288575
Flag of Ireland.svg Pat O'Donnell & Conor Skehan3122453754
Flag of India.svg Pratap Ballalasamudra & Sumeet Kamat3030629903

Elimination round

Source [3]

Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarter finals Semi finals Finals
               
1 Flag of the United States.svg Ben Croft & Tom Fuhrmann
 
1 Flag of the United States.svg USA15, 15
17 Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico 0, 0 – forfeit
17 Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Michael Barrett & Fernando Rivera15, 15
16 Flag of India.svg Pratap Ballalasamudra & Sumeet Kamat 6, 4
1 Flag of the United States.svg USA15, 15
8 Flag of Ecuador.svg Ecuador 11, 13
9 Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Luis Perez & Junior Rodriguez
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9 Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Dominican Republic 13, 3
8 Flag of Ecuador.svg Ecuador15, 15
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8 Flag of Ecuador.svg Fernando Rios & Jose Daniel Alvarez
1 Flag of the United States.svg USA 11, 2
4 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada15, 15
5 Flag of Argentina.svg Daniel Maggi & Shai Manzuri
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5 Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina15, 15 – forfeit
12 Flag of Guatemala.svg Guatemala 0, 0
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12 Flag of Guatemala.svg Pedro Manolo Sandoval & Edwin Galicia
5 Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina 7, 7
4 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada15, 15
13 Flag of South Korea.svg Mingyu Kim & Daeyong Kwon
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13 Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea 10, 1
4 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada15, 15
 
4 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Mike Green & Vincent Gagnon
4 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada 11, 5
7 Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia15, 15
3 Flag of Venezuela.svg César Castillo & César Castro
 
3 Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela15, 15
14 Flag of Japan.svg Japan 6, 14
 
14 Flag of Japan.svg Hiroshi Shimizu & Michimune Kono
3 Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela 15, 6, 9
6 Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg Bolivia10, 15, 11
11 Flag of Chile.svg Francisco Troncoso & Rodrigo Salgado
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11 Flag of Chile.svg Chile 8, 5
6 Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg Bolivia15, 15
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6 Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg Conrrado Moscoso & Mario Mercado
6 Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg Bolivia 11, 2
7 Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia15, 15
7 Flag of Colombia.svg Sebastian Franco & Alejandro Herrera
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7 Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia10, 15, 11
10 Flag of Costa Rica.svg Costa Rica 15, 9, 6
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10 Flag of Costa Rica.svg Joaquin Solera & Pablo Sauma
7 Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia15, 6, 11
2 Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico 14, 15, 9
15 Flag of Ireland.svg Pat O'Donnell & Conor Skehan15, 15
18 Flag of Catalonia.svg Victor Montserrat & Dani Pascual 10, 13
15 Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland 1, 12
2 Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico15, 15
 
Flag of Mexico.svg Álvaro Beltrán & Edson Martinez
Winners
Flag of Colombia.svg Sebastian Franco & Alejandro Herrera

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