2014 Racquetball World Championships – Men's Singles

XVII Racquetball World Championships - Canada 2014 -
Host	Burlington, Ontario Canada
Dates	June 14 - June 21
Men's singles
Gold	Rocky Carson
Silver	Conrado Moscoso
Bronze	Jose Rojas Carlos Keller
Women's singles
Men's doubles
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.

In Men's Singles, American Rocky Carson was the three-time defending champion, and he won gold for a fourth time, which made him the most decorated men's racquetball player at the World Championships. In capturing the gold, Carson won all of his matches in two straight games.

Conrado Moscoso of Bolivia was the surprise silver medalist. Moscoso defeated the 2012 silver medalist Polo Gutierrez of Mexico in the quarterfinals and the beat fellow Bolivian Carlos Keller in the semi-finals to reach the final.

The other semi-final was between two Americans: Carson and Jose Rojas. The Americans were on the same side of the draw, because Rojas lost to Fernando Rios of Ecuador in a great match that went tie-breaker in the round robin part of the competition.^[2] Sadly for Rios, his victory didn't lead to a great position in the elimination draw, as he had to play Gutierrez in the second round, as Gutierrez missed one of his round robin matches, which put him fourth in his group. Gutierrez defeated Rios in two games.

Mexican Alvaro Beltran was the other former World Champion in the men's draw (Beltran won the title in 2000), but he lost early in the elimination round as a result of a forfeit to Jose Daniel Ugalde of Ecuador.

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^[3]

Pool A

Player	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	PF	PA	Points
Rocky Carson	3	3	0	6	0	90	35	6
Norlen Jimenez	3	2	1	4	3	76	86	5
Fernando Kurzbard	3	1	2	3	4	65	81	4
Jose Daniel Ugalde	3	0	3	0	6	45	90	3

Pool B

Player	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	PF	PA	Points
Tim Landeryou	3	3	0	6	1	96	48	6
Victor Monterrat	3	2	1	4	3	70	75	5
Ezequiel Paez	3	1	2	3	5	78	90	4
Anthony DeFusto	3	0	3	2	6	70	79	3

Pool C

Player	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	PF	PA	Points
Jose Rojas	3	2	1	5	2	95	52	5
Fernando Rios	3	3	0	6	1	93	51	6
Pablo Kurzbard	3	1	2	2	4	62	67	4
Peter Rakowski	3	0	0	6	10	90	0	3

Pool D

Player	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	PF	PA	Points
Samuel Murray	3	3	0	6	0	90	14	6
Roberto Santander	3	2	1	4	2	67	37	5
Dani Pascual	3	1	2	0	6	44	60	4
Timothy Baghurst	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0

Pool E

Player	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	PF	PA	Points
Alvaro Beltran	3	3	0	6	0	90	30	6
Andres Aviles Solera	3	2	1	4	2	68	56	5
Michael Barrett	3	0	3	0	6	33	90	3
Mingyu Kim	3	1	2	2	4	56	71	4

Pool F

Player	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	PF	PA	Points
Michimune Kono	3	2	1	5	2	87	54	5
Francisco Troncoso	3	2	1	4	3	76	65	5
Roman De Leon	3	2	1	4	3	97	74	5
Rajiv Varadarajan	3	0	3	0	6	22	90	0

Pool G

Player	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	PF	PA	Points
Felipe Camacho	3	2	1	4	3	74	82	5
Fernando Rivera	3	1	2	2	4	62	60	4
Daeyong Kwon	3	1	2	4	4	84	81	4
Polo Gutierrez	2	2	1	4	3	70	66	4

Pool H

Player	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	PF	PA	Points
Takaaki Hirose	3	3	0	6	0	90	28	6
Junior Rodriguez	3	2	1	4	2	70	57	5
Alok Mehta	3	1	2	2	4	50	80	4
Rodrigo Salgado	3	0	3	0	6	55	90	3

Pool I

Player	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	PF	PA	Points
Sebastian Franco	3	3	0	6	0	90	47	6
Conrado Moscoso	3	2	1	4	2	82	63	5
Edwin Galicia	3	1	2	2	4	57	82	4
Mark Murphy	3	0	3	0	6	53	90	3

Pool J

Player	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	PF	PA	Points
Carlos Keller	3	3	0	6	0	90	26	6
Alejandro Herrera	3	2	1	4	2	70	42	5
Patrick Hanley	3	1	2	2	4	58	60	4
Pedro Manolo Sandoval	0	0	0	0	0	0	90	0

Elimination round^[4]

	First round					Second round					Third round					Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Final
						1	Rocky Carson	15, 15
						33	Michael Barrett	3, 1
	33	Michael Barrett	15, 15
	32	Pedro Manolo Sandoval	0, 0
											1	Rocky Carson	15, 15
											17	Daeyong Kwan	4, 1
						17	Daeyong Kwon	15, 15
						16	Victor Monterrat	11, 3
																1	Rocky Carson	15, 15
																9	Sebastian Franco	8, 10
						9	Sebastian Franco	15, 15
						24	Francisco Troncoso	4, 1
	41
	24
											9	Sebastian Franco	15, 15
											8	Takaaki Hirose	11, 8
	25
	40
						25	Pablo Kurzbard	8, 9
						8	Takaaki Hirose	15, 15
																					1	Rocky Carson	15, 15
																					20	Jose Rojas	8, 12
						5	Alvaro Beltran	0, 0
						37	Jose Daniel Ugalde	15, 15 - forfeit
	37	Jose Daniel Ugalde	15, 15
	28	Fernando Rivera	2, 2
											37	Jose Daniel Ugalde	11, 15, 4
											12	Alejandro Herrera	15, 8, 11
	21
	44
						21	Ezequiel Paez	1, 10
						12	Alejandro Herrera	15, 15
																12	Alejandro Herrera	6, 7
																20	Jose Rojas	15, 15
						13	Roman De Leon	7, 2
						20	Jose Rojas	15, 15
	45
	20
											20	Jose Rojas	15, 15
											29	Edwin Galicia	4, 10
	29	Edwin Galicia	15, 15
	36	Rodrigo Salgado	4, 3
						29	Edwin Galicia	15, 15
						4	Samuel Murray	12, 12
																										1	Rocky Carson	15, 15
																										11	Conrado Moscoso	3, 8
						3	Fernando Rios	5, 6
						35	Polo Gutierrez	15, 15
	35	Polo Gutierrez	15, 15
	30	Patrick Hanley	4, 9
											35	Polo Gutierrez	15, 15
											14	Andres Aviles Solera	6, 6
						19	Roberto Santander	15, 10, 0
						14	Andres Aviles Solera	14, 15, 11
																35	Polo Gutierrez	14, 15, 10
																11	Conrado Moscoso	15, 2, 11
						11	Conrado Moscoso	15, 15
						22	Fernando Kurzbard	6, 14
	43
	22
											11	Conrado Moscoso	15, 15
											6	Michimune Kono	9, 11
	27	Alok Mehta	15, 15
	38	Anthony DeFusto	0, 0
						27	Alok Mehta	6, 6
						6	Michimune Kono	15, 15
																					11	Conrado Moscoso	15, 11, 11
																					10	Carlos Keller	11, 15, 3
						7	Felipe Camacho	10, 15, 7
						26	Mingyu Kim	15, 14, 11
	39	Mark Murphy
	26	Mingyu Kim
											26	Mingyu Kim	7, 6
											10	Carlos Keller	15, 15
	23
	42
						23	Dani Pascual	3, 10
						10	Carlos Keller	15, 15
																10	Carlos Keller	15, 15
																2	Tim Landeryou	6, 12
						15	Junior Rodriguez	11, 7
						18	Noslen Jimenez	15, 15
											18	Noslen Jimenez	11, 10
											2	Tim Landeryou	15, 15
	31	Rajiv Varadarajan	15, 6, 4
	34	Peter Rakowski	5, 15, 11
							Peter Rakowski	3, 1
						2	Tim Landeryou	15, 15

Winner
Rocky Carson

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