{"id":94553,"date":"2025-12-08T20:27:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/costa-rica-shocks-u-s-in-junior-racquetball-world-championship-in-santo-domingo\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T20:27:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:27:26","slug":"costa-rica-shocks-u-s-in-junior-racquetball-world-championship-in-santo-domingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/costa-rica-shocks-u-s-in-junior-racquetball-world-championship-in-santo-domingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Rica Shocks U.S. in Junior Racquetball World Championship in Santo Domingo"},"content":{"rendered":"SANTO DOMINGO \u2013 The racquetball competition at the Junior World Championship held at the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center offered exciting matches this Monday. The Costa Rican duo formed by Felipe Porras and Gabriel Rojas stood out by obtaining a resounding victory.\n\n<h2>Costa Rican Dominance in Doubles<\/h2>\n\nIn the men&#8217;s doubles category, 12 years and under, Porras and Rojas defeated Americans Reyansh Chandel and Ashvin Aggarwal with a score of 3-0 (11-1, 11-8, 11-5). Demonstrating a solid and consistent game.\n\nIn the same category, Mexicans Hermann Gracia and Max Soto also achieved a convincing victory, defeating Dominicans Reynell de Le\u00f3n and Mehivel Garc\u00eda with scores of 11-2, 11-1, and 11-3.\n\nAlso, United States representatives Alden Townsend and Ryan Joeckel defeated Dominicans Emerson Mora and Deikel de Le\u00f3n with a score of 3-0 (11-3, 11-3, 11-2).\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Women&#8217;s Singles Results<\/h2>\n\n\nIn the women&#8217;s singles category for 14-year-olds, Bolivian Adriana Baz\u00e1n defeated American Shreiya Chandel with a score of 3-0 (11-1, 12-10, 11-6).\n\nThe Mexican Grisel G\u00f3mez starred in a spectacular comeback to defeat the Bolivian Renata Saavedra Rodr\u00edguez, with scores of 8-11, 8-11, 11-3, 11-9 and 11-8.\n\nValentina Villarroel Garz\u00f3n, also from Bolivia, recovered from her compatriot&#8217;s defeat by defeating Mexican Karla Medrano with a score of 11-8, 11-3, 13-15, 11-5. In this same category, the Argentinian Rafaela P\u00e1ez Bejarano dominated the Ecuadorian Victoria Villacreses with a score of 11-2, 11-4, 11-2.\n\nIn other featured results, Costa Rican Larissa Faeth defeated Ivana Salamea of Ecuador, with a score of 11-7, 11-2, 11-15.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Category 16 Years and Under<\/h2>\n\n\nIn the 16 and under category, Mexican Axel S\u00e1nchez defeated American Grant Williams in an exciting match decided with scores of 7-11, 11-9, 7-11, 11-4 and 11-6.\n\nThe Guatemalan Yordi Navarijo also obtained a victory, surpassing the Chilean Ignacio Andr\u00e9s Guti\u00e9rrez Orellana with a score of 11-7, 12-10, 11-7.\n\nThe Santo Domingo 2025 Junior Racquetball World Championships feature the participation of athletes from Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, South Korea, Chinese Taipei, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, and Dominican Republic.\n\nThe competitions will continue this Tuesday from 9:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night, with action in singles, men&#8217;s doubles, women&#8217;s doubles and mixed doubles.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO \u2013 The racquetball competition at the Junior World Championship held at the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center offered exciting matches this Monday. The Costa Rican duo formed by Felipe Porras and Gabriel Rojas stood out by obtaining a resounding victory. Costa Rican Dominance in Doubles In the men&#8217;s doubles category, 12 years and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[11005,1446,941,11019],"class_list":{"0":"post-94553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-racquetball","9":"tag-santo-domingo","10":"tag-tournament","11":"tag-youth-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}