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	San José, Costa Rica
Dates	August 10-18
Men's singles
Women's singles
Men's doubles
Gold	Alvaro Beltran & Daniel De La Rosa
Silver	Rocky Carson & Sudsy Monchik
Bronze	Roland Keller & Conrrado Moscoso Tim Landeryou & Samuel Murray
Women's doubles

In 2016, Mexicans Alvaro Beltran 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

Players	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	PF	PA	Points
Alvaro Beltran & 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

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

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

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

	Round of 16					Quarter finals					Semi finals					Finals
	1	Alvaro Beltran & 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
Alvaro Beltran & Daniel De La Rosa

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References

1. http://www.internationalracquetball.com
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-08-06. Retrieved 2019-09-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)