2014 Racquetball World Championships – Men's doubles

The International Racquetball Federation's 17th Racquetball World Championships were held in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, from June 14 to 21, 2014. This was the second time Worlds were in Canada. Previously, they were in Montreal in 1992.

XVII Racquetball World Championships - Canada 2014 -
Host	Burlington, Ontario Canada
Dates	June 14–21
Men's singles
Women's singles
Men's doubles
Gold	Sebastian Franco & Alejandro Herrera
Silver	Mike Green & Vincent Gagnon
Bronze	Conrrado Moscoso & Mario Mercado Ben Croft & Tom Fuhrmann
Women's doubles

The men's doubles final was between two surprise finalists, as neither the #1 seeded USA team of Ben Croft and Tom Fuhrmann nor #2 seeds Mexicans Álvaro Beltrán and Edson Martinez made the final. In fact, the Mexicans didn't even make the podium.

Instead, Colombians Sebastian Franco and Alejandro Herrera defeated Canadians Mike Green and Vincent Gagnon in the final, 15–11, 15–5, which was the first Men's doubles World Championship not won by either the USA or Mexico. The Canadians had defeated the Colombians in two straight games in the round robin stage of play, but Colombia was able to reverse that result in the final.

Franco and Herrera defeated Beltran and Martinez in the quarter-finals, denying the Mexicans a place on the podium, and then beat Bolivians Conrrado Moscoso and Mario Mercado in the semi-finals. Green and Gagnon beat Americans Croft and Fuhrmann in the other semi-final. Croft won gold in Men's doubles (with Mitch Williams) at his previous appearance at Worlds in 2010.

Tournament format

The 2014 World Championships was the first competition with an initial round robin stage that was used to seed players for an elimination qualification round. Previously, players were seeded into an elimination round based on how their countries had done at previous World Championships, and then a second team competition was also played.

Round robin

Pool A

Source

Player	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	PF	PA	Points
Ben Croft & Tom Fuhrmann	2	2	0	4	0	60	23	4
Joaquin Solera & Pablo Sauma	2	1	1	2	2	43	40	3
Francisco Troncoso & Rodrigo Salgado	2	0	2	0	4	20	60	2

Pool B

Player	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	PF	PA	Points
Álvaro Beltrán & Edson Martinez	2	2	0	4	0	60	15	4
Joaquin Solera & Pablo Sauma	2	1	1	2	2	45	30	3
Pedro Manolo Sandoval & Edwin Galicia	0	0	2	0	4	0	60	0

Pool C

Player	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	PF	PA	Points
César Castillo & César Castro	3	3	0	6	1	95	64	4
Fernando Rios & Jose Daniel Alvarez	3	2	1	5	3	105	61	3
Mingyu Kim & Daeyong Kwon	3	1	2	3	4	71	68	0
Victor Montserrat & Dani Pascual	3	0	3	0	6	25	90	0

Pool D

Player	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	PF	PA	Points
Mike Green & Vincent Gagnon	3	3	0	6	0	90	38	6
Sebastian Franco & Alejandro Herrera	3	2	1	4	2	82	52	5
Hiroshi Shimizu & Michimune Kono	3	1	2	2	4	59	68	4
Michael Barrett & Fernando Rivera	3	0	3	0	6	17	90	3

Pool E

Player	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	PF	PA	Points
Daniel Maggi & Shai Manzuri	3	3	0	6	1	97	45	6
Conrrado Moscoso & Mario Mercado	3	2	1	5	2	88	57	5
Pat O'Donnell & Conor Skehan	3	1	2	2	4	53	75	4
Pratap Ballalasamudra & Sumeet Kamat	3	0	3	0	6	29	90	3

Elimination round

Source

	Round of 32					Round of 16					Quarter finals					Semi finals					Finals
	1	Ben Croft & Tom Fuhrmann
						1	USA	15, 15
						17	Puerto Rico	0, 0 – forfeit
	17	Michael Barrett & Fernando Rivera	15, 15
	16	Pratap Ballalasamudra & Sumeet Kamat	6, 4
											1	USA	15, 15
											8	Ecuador	11, 13
	9	Luis Perez & Junior Rodriguez
						9	Dominican Republic	13, 3
						8	Ecuador	15, 15
	8	Fernando Rios & Jose Daniel Alvarez
																1	USA	11, 2
																4	Canada	15, 15
	5	Daniel Maggi & Shai Manzuri
						5	Argentina	15, 15 – forfeit
						12	Guatemala	0, 0
	12	Pedro Manolo Sandoval & Edwin Galicia
											5	Argentina	7, 7
											4	Canada	15, 15
	13	Mingyu Kim & Daeyong Kwon
						13	South Korea	10, 1
						4	Canada	15, 15
	4	Mike Green & Vincent Gagnon
																					4	Canada	11, 5
																					7	Colombia	15, 15
	3	César Castillo & César Castro
						3	Venezuela	15, 15
						14	Japan	6, 14
	14	Hiroshi Shimizu & Michimune Kono
											3	Venezuela	15, 6, 9
											6	Bolivia	10, 15, 11
	11	Francisco Troncoso & Rodrigo Salgado
						11	Chile	8, 5
						6	Bolivia	15, 15
	6	Conrrado Moscoso & Mario Mercado
																6	Bolivia	11, 2
																7	Colombia	15, 15
	7	Sebastian Franco & Alejandro Herrera
						7	Colombia	10, 15, 11
						10	Costa Rica	15, 9, 6
	10	Joaquin Solera & Pablo Sauma
											7	Colombia	15, 6, 11
											2	Mexico	14, 15, 9
	15	Pat O'Donnell & Conor Skehan	15, 15
	18	Victor Montserrat & Dani Pascual	10, 13
						15	Ireland	1, 12
						2	Mexico	15, 15
	Álvaro Beltrán & Edson Martinez

Winners
Sebastian Franco & Alejandro Herrera