Sunday, October 28, 2018

Longoria & Salas will be foes & partners Sunday at 2018 LPRT Boston Open

Both Paola Longoria and Samantha Salas will have a chance to be double winners Sunday at the Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour (LPRT) 2018 LPRT Boston Open, as they will play each other in the singles final, and then team up to play the doubles final. In the singles semi-finals, Longoria beat Alexandra Herrera, 11-3, 11-1, 11-2, and Salas needed five games to get past Rhonda Rajsich, 8-11, 11-3, 11-5, 7-11, 11-3.

They’ll play Herrera and Maria Renee Rodriguez in the doubles final, as Herrera and Rodriguez defeated Rajsich and Sheryl Lotts, 15-7, 15-9, in the semi-finals. Longoria and Salas got an injury forfeit win over Frédérique Lambert and Carla Muñoz, as Muñoz rolled her ankle on Friday, and it had swollen up overnight making her unable to play Saturday.

All of the singles quarterfinal matches went four games. Longoria, the LPRT’s #1 player, dropped the first game to Natalia Mendez before winning the next three to take the match, 8-11, 11-0, 11-6, 11-2. Salas defeated Maria Jose Vargas, 11-7, 11-1, 2-11, 11-3. Herrera beat Nancy Enriquez, 11-9, 5-11, 11-4, 11-4, and finally, veteran Rajsich was an upset winner by defeating LPRT #2 Lambert in four close games, 11-8, 12-10, 9-11, 11-9.

The singles final will be Sunday at 11 AM with the doubles final scheduled for noon. Check out the Live Streaming link on the LPRT website to see the action from Boston. All times Eastern.

2018 Boston Open
Boston, Massachusetts - October 26-28, 2018


LPRT Singles - Quarterfinals - Saturday

1 Paola Longoria d. 8 Natalia Mendez, 8-11, 11-0, 11-6, 11-2
4 Alexandra Herrera d. 5 Nancy Enriquez, 11-9, 5-11, 11-4, 11-4

3 Samantha Salas d. 6 Maria Jose Vargas, 11-7, 11-1, 2-11, 11-3
7 Rhonda Rajsich d. 2 Frédérique Lambert, 11-8, 12-10, 9-11, 11-9

LPRT Singles - Semi-finals - Saturday

1 Paola Longoria d. 4 Alexandra Herrera, 11-3, 11-1, 11-2
3 Samantha Salas d. 7 Rhonda Rajsich, 8-11, 11-3, 11-5, 7-11, 11-3

LPRT Singles - Final - Sunday

1 Paola Longoria v. 3 Samantha Salas - 11 AM

LPRT Doubles - Semi-finals - Saturday

1 Paola Longoria & Samantha Salas d. 5 Frédérique Lambert & Carla Muñoz, injury forfeit
2 Alexandra Herrera & Maria Renee Rodriguez d. 6 Rhonda Rajsich & Sheryl Lotts, 15-7, 15-9

LPRT Doubles - Final - Sunday

1 Paola Longoria & Samantha Salas v. 2 Alexandra Herrera & Maria Renee Rodriguez - Noon

Follow the bouncing ball….

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