IRF has confirmed the qualified teams for The World Games Chengdu 2025.

The International Racquetball Federation – IRF has confirmed the qualified teams for The World Games Chengdu 2025. The World Games will take place in Chengdu, China, between August 7 and August 17, 2025. The Racquetball competition will be held at the High Tech Zone Sport Center in Southern Chengdu from August 13th to August 17th.

For the first time in history, the International World Games Association (IWGA) has approved the addition of Mixed Doubles. Therefore, Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, and Mixed Doubles divisions will be offered. Thirty-two Racquetball athletes –16 men and 16 women– will form 16 National Teams, i.e. one man and one woman who will each play singles and also compete together in Mixed Doubles.

With a global representation including the best athletes in the world, the Racquetball Competition promises to be one of the greatest sports of these increadebles Games.

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# ABOUT #

International Racquetball Federation: The International Racquetball Federation is the governing body for all internationally sanctioned racquetball events. Racquetball is an extremely fast sport where balls can travel in excess of 150 mph in a 40 ft. long, 20 ft. wide, and 20 ft. high court.

International World Games Association: The International World Games Association (IWGA) is a non-profit-making international sports organisation recognised and supported by the International Olympic Committee. The IWGA comprises 40 International Member Sports Federations. It administers and promotes The World Games (TWG), a multi-sport event held every four years that features around 35 sports on its programme.

The World Games Athlete of the Year 2024 – VOTE EVERY DAY FOR ALEXANDRA AND MONTSERRAT

The Racquetball Candidates, Alexandra Herrera and Montserrat Mejía 🇲🇽 won the women’s doubles World Racquetball Championships in 2024. Furthermore, they helped Team Mexico win the Women’s Team title with a doubles victory and two victories in singles for Mejía.

Will they become The World Games Athlete of the Year 2024?

VOTE EVERY DAY ON:
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➡️Note that you need to give votes to TWO athletes: 2 votes to your first choice and 1 vote to your second choice.⬅️

II. Bilbao Tournament of Racquetball (Doubles)

 

On December 14 of 2024, the Basque Association of Beach Tennis and Minority Sports, the Racquetball section, organized the II Bilbao Tournament of Racquetball (Doubles). We played the first edition last year. This time 6 players met to play: Jon Ander Gil, Joseba Zubiaurre, Daniel Barrientos, David Bilbao, Egoitz Campo and Galder Etxebarria.

We have not yet been able to build a racquetball court with official dimensions. In the future we will continue trying. Until then we will continue playing our Basque tournaments at the Polideportivo de San Ignacio or somewhere similar.

So we met again at the San Ignacio Municipal Sports Center in Bilbao, and we made three couples. This time we played in doubles. We played all couples agaisnt all. Three matches in total.

If everything goes well and there are no setbacks in april we will compete in the III Basque CountryRacquetball Championship (Individual) and in august of next year the III Basque Country Championship but in doubles.

Here are the results of the II. Bilbao Racquetball Tournament (Doubles):

Matches

Egoitz Campo/Daniel Barrientos 2-0 Jon Ander Gil/ Galder Etxebarria (11-3, 11-4)

David Bilbao/Joseba Zubiaurre 2-1 Jon Ander Gil/Galder Etxebarria (11-8, 9-11, 11-6)

Egoitz Campo/Daniel Barrientos 2-1 David Bilbao/ Joseba Zubiaurre (11-6, 8-11, 11-8)

 

Classification of the II. Bilbao Tournament of Racquetball (Doubles)

1-Egoitz Campo (Basque Country) / Daniel Barrientos (Basque Country)

2-David Bilbao (Basque Country) / Joseba Zubiaurre (Basque Country)

3-Jon Ander Gil (Basque Country) / Galder Etxebarria (Basque Country)