{"id":94624,"date":"2025-12-09T04:56:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/costa-rica-shocks-u-s-at-junior-racquetball-world-championship-santo-domingo\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T04:56:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:56:00","slug":"costa-rica-shocks-u-s-at-junior-racquetball-world-championship-santo-domingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/costa-rica-shocks-u-s-at-junior-racquetball-world-championship-santo-domingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Rica Shocks U.S. at Junior Racquetball World Championship Santo Domingo"},"content":{"rendered":"SANTO DOMINGO \u2013 The Junior Racquetball World Championship continues vibrantly at the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center, presenting exciting matches in various categories. Monday&#8217;s day was full of victories and demonstrations of youthful talent.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Men&#8217;s Doubles: Costa Rica Shines<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Costa Rican duo of Felipe Porras and Gabriel Rojas shone with a resounding 3-0 (11-1, 11-8, 11-5) victory over Americans Reyansh Chandel and Ashvin Aggarwal in the 12 years and under category. A dominant performance that demonstrates the high level of Costa Rican racquetball.\n\nIn the same category, Mexicans Hermann Gracia and Max Soto also advanced, surpassing Dominicans Reynell de Le\u00f3n and Mehivel Garc\u00eda with a score of 11-2, 11-1, 11-3. On the other hand, Americans Alden Townsend and Ryan Joeckel defeated Dominicans Emerson Mora and Deikel de Le\u00f3n with a result of 3-0 (11-3, 11-3, 11-2).\n\n<h2>Female Singles: Excitement and Comebacks<\/h2>\n\nIn the 14 years category, Bolivian Adriana Baz\u00e1n defeated American Shreiya Chandel with a score of 3-0 (11-1, 12-10, 11-6). Mexican Grisel G\u00f3mez starred in a spectacular comeback against Bolivian Renata Saavedra Rodr\u00edguez, winning with partials 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 and defeated the Mexican Karla Medrano with a score of 11-8, 11-3, 13-15, 11-5. In the same category, the Argentinian Rafaela P\u00e1ez Bejarano dominated the Ecuadorian Victoria Villacreses with a result of 11-2, 11-4, 11-2.\n\nIn other women&#8217;s results, Costa Rican Larissa Faeth defeated Ivana Salamea of Ecuador with scores of 11-7, 11-2, 11-15.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Category 16 Years and Under: Vibrant Encounters<\/h2>\n\n\nIn the 16 years and under category, Mexican Axel S\u00e1nchez took the victory against American Grant Williams in an exciting match that ended 7-11, 11-9, 7-11, 11-4, 11-6.\n\nThe Guatemalan Yordi Navarijo also secured his 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 Junior Racquetball World Championship continues vibrantly at the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center, presenting exciting matches in various categories. Monday&#8217;s day was full of victories and demonstrations of youthful talent. Men&#8217;s Doubles: Costa Rica Shines The Costa Rican duo of Felipe Porras and Gabriel Rojas shone with a resounding 3-0 (11-1, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[11005,1446,941,11019],"class_list":{"0":"post-94624","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\/94624","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=94624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}