Racquetball: A game with the pros

The main player in this video is Kane Waselenchuk and he is the #1 player on the IRT.

The professional racquetball players play in the International Racquetball Tour (IRT). The IRT host many tournaments all over the states. The biggest IRT tournament is the US Open and every year they have a minimum of 700 people playing. The IRT also host invitational tournaments that only the top 15 guys in the world can play at unless you get an invitation. The rules in the IRT are different than in Canada because the IRT plays best of 5 games to 11, instead of playing best of 3 games to 15 and having a tiebreaker to 11.

Racquetball: Canadian Ranking System

Canada has a very specific ranking system when it comes to racquetball. When you first start playing racquetball, you apply for your account on r2sports. The first time your ranking will show up, you will be in last place. In order to move up in rankings you have to beat a person who is ahead of you twice in a row. If you beat them twice, you will move to their spot of ranking and they move behind you but, if you win one and lose one you have to win two to get their ranking. For example, Player 1 is ranked 123 and Player 2 is ranked 21. Player 1 plays Player 2 one game and beats them but the next game they play Player 1 loses. Player 1 will stay ranked in the same place and will not be tracking Player 2 anymore. The next tourney they play Player 1 beats Player 2 in a game so, Player 1 is now tracking Player 2's ranking. The next game they play Player 1 pulls off another win so, the next time they update the rankings Player 1 will be one spot ahead of Player 2.