World Games Qualifiers

DATELINE - AUGUST 7, 2008 

This year's International Racquetball Federation (IRF) World Championships in Kingscourt, Ireland is serving as the qualifying event for the 2009 World Games to be held in Kaohsiung, Chines Taipei. The top 16 finishers in men's and women's singles qualified to play in Taipei.

Those players are, alphabetically :

Men:

Alvaro Beltran (Mexico)
Felipe Camacho (Costa Rica)
Rocky Carson (USA)
Vincent Gagnon (Canada)
Mike Green (Canada)
Polo Gutierrez (Mexico)
Takaaki Hirose (Japan)
Jack Huczek (USA)
Michimune Kono (Japan)
Ricardo Monroy (Bolivia)
Victor Montserrat (Catalonia, Spain)
Luis Perez (Dom. Republic)
Fernando Rios (Ecuador)
Leonel Simo (Dom. Republic)
Ivan Villegas (Costa Rica)
Jorge Zamprana (Bolivia)

Women :

Susana Acosta (Mexico)
Jung Eun Ane (Korea)
Cristina Cordova (Ecuador)
Jenny Daza (Bolivia)
Josée Grand'Maître (Canada)
Angela Grisar (Chile)
Cheryl Gudinas Holmes (USA)
Harumi Kajino (Japan)
Paola Longoria (Mexico)
Fabiola Marquez (Chile)
Maria Paz Munoz (Ecuador)
Rhonda Rajsich (USA)
Vivianna Reveron (Venezuela)
Yazmine Sabja (Bolivia)
Toshiko Sakamoto (Japan)
Jennifer Saunders (Canada)

By country, there are two men from Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Japan, and Bolivia, as well as the Big Three of Canada, Mexico and the USA. Then there are single players from Ecuador and Catalonia/Spain.

For the women, there are two from Chile, Ecuador, Japan, and Bolivia, as well as the Big Three. There will one woman from Korea and Venezuela.

So, Bolivia and Japan as well as Canada, Mexico and the USA will have four racquetball players at the World Games, with Ecuador having three.