Diego Garcia and Jaime Martell have come through Thursday qualifying and made it into the Saturday quarterfinals at the International Racquetball Tour (IRT) Golden State Open in Pleasanton, California. Garcia upset former IRT #1 Rocky Carson in the Round of 16, 11-15, 15-7, 11-5, while Martell knocked off IRT #4 Samuel Murray, 15-8, 15-14.
Top seed Conrrado Moscoso and #2 seed Andree Parrilla both won their matches in the 16s in two straight games. Moscoso defeat Alan Natera, 15-5, 15-5, and Parrilla beat Kadim Carrasco, 15-10, 15-8. In the quarterfinals, Moscoso will play 8th seed Adam Manilla, who went tie-breaker with Carlos Keller in the 16s, winning 11-15, 15-11, 11-7, while Parrilla will play Mario Mercado, who defeated Rodrigo Montoya, 15-11, 15-11.
Earlier, Garcia eked out a victory over Javier Mar, winning 15-14, 10-15, 11-10. He got to 10 first in the breaker when he hit a drive serve ace to the left side that made it 10-7, but Mar fought off match point with a backhand serve return.
Mar then scored three points to tie it at 10-10. Garcia gave Mar his 10th point with a big unforced error when he plowed a backhand shot into the floor. Some of The Racquetball Blog staff thought that error would cost him the match, but the young Argentine player got the serve back when an 11 shot rally ended with an avoidable call against Mar, who was getting up from his second dive of the rally, as the ball came past him as Garcia was poised to take a shot. It seemed like a good call.
Garcia won the match by ending a 15 shot rally with a backhand splat roll out from 38’. It was an all or nothing shot that often you see from young guns like Garcia. Shots that would drive coaches crazy, but this time it worked beautifully.
Mar got a measure of payback on Garcia, as he and Rodrigo Montoya beat Garcia and Mercado, 15-2, 15-10, in the doubles quarterfinals. Mar and Montoya are the top seeds, and they’ll play 4th seeds Andrés Acuña and Eduardo Portillo in the semi-finals Saturday, as Acuña and Portillo came back to defeat last weekend's US Open finalists and this weekend's 5th seeds Jake and Sam Bredenbeck, 7-15, 15-6, 11-2.
On the other side of the doubles draw, 2nd seeds Murray and Parrilla defeated 7th seeds Carrasco and Carlos Keller in two straight games, 15-8, 15-11. Of note, Parrilla was playing on the left side and Murray on the right, which is a switch from how they played at the US Open last weekend, when they got to the semi-finals. In tomorrow's semis, they’ll play 6th seeds Sebastian Fernandez and Adam Manilla, who were the only upset winners Friday, as they took out 3rd seeds Conrrado Moscoso and Roland Keller, 14-15, 15-11, 11-5.
You can see the 2022 IRT Golden State Open matches via the usual IRT media outlets: The IRT YouTube channel or the IRT Facebook page. The singles quarterfinals will begin Saturday morning with the semi-finals Saturday evening. The final will be Sunday at 11:30 AM. The doubles the semi-finals Saturday afternoon, and final Sunday at 12:15 PM. All times Pacific.
2022 IRT Golden State Open, October 6-9, 2022
Pleasanton, California
Round of 32 - Friday
1) Conrrado Moscoso - BYE
Alan Natera d. 16) Robert Collins, 12-15, 15-11, 11-5
9) Carlos Keller d. Nicholas Riffel, 15-6, 12-15, 11-7
8) Adam Manilla - BYE
5) Rocky Carson - BYE
Diego Garcia d. 12) Javier Mar, 15-14, 10-15, 11-10
13) Thomas Carter d. Jim Douglas, 15-1, 15-1
4) Eduardo Portillo - BYE
3) Samuel Murray - BYE
Jaime Martell d. 14) Sebastian Fernandez, 11-15, 15-10, 11-5
11) Andrés Acuña d. Anthony Martin, 15-5, 15-5
6) Jake Bredenbeck - BYE
7) Mario Mercado - BYE
10) Rodrigo Montoya d. Rodrigo Mendoza, 15-8, 15-1
15) Kadim Carrasco d. Sam Bredenbeck, 7-15, 15-4, 11-6
2) Andree Parrilla - BYE
Round of 16 - Friday
1) Conrrado Moscoso d. Alan Natera, 15-5, 15-5
8) Adam Manilla d. 9) Carlos Keller, 11-15, 15-11, 11-7
Diego Garcia d. 5) Rocky Carson, 11-15, 15-7, 11-5
4) Eduardo Portillo d. 13) Thomas Carter, 15-3, 15-8
Jaime Martell d. 3) Samuel Murray, 15-8, 15-14
6) Jake Bredenbeck d. 11) Andrés Acuña, 15-10, 15-3
7) Mario Mercado d. 10) Rodrigo Montoya, 15-11, 15-11
2) Andree Parrilla d. 15) Kadim Carrasco, 15-10, 15-8
Quarterfinals - Saturday
1) Conrrado Moscoso v. 8) Adam Manilla - 1:15 PM
4) Eduardo Portillo v. Diego Garcia - 12:30 PM
6) Jake Bredenbeck v. Jaime Martell - 10:15 AM
2) Andree Parrilla v. 7) Mario Mercado - 11 AM
Doubles - Quarterfinals - Friday
1) Javier Mar & Rodrigo Montoya d. 8) Diego Garcia & Mario Mercado, 15-2, 15-10
4) Andrés Acuña & Eduardo Portillo d. 5) Jake Bredenbeck & Sam Bredenbeck, 7-15, 15-6, 11-2
6) Sebastian Fernandez & Adam Manilla d. 3) Conrrado Moscoso & Roland Keller, 14-15, 15-11, 11-5
2) Samuel Murray & Andree Parrilla d. 7) Kadim Carrasco & Carlos Keller, 15-8, 15-11
Doubles - Semi-finals - Saturday
1) Javier Mar & Rodrigo Montoya v. 4) Andrés Acuña & Eduardo Portillo - 4:15 PM
2) Samuel Murray & Andree Parrilla v. 6) Sebastian Fernandez & Adam Manilla - 3:30 PM
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