Alvaro Beltran

Career

Also, he is one of the top ranked players on the International Racquetball Tour (Item response theory). Beltran was ranked 3rd at the end of the 2013-2014 Item response theory season. Beltrán has been the highest ranked Mexican player ever on the Item response theory. He"s been ranked in the top 10 Item response theory at season"s end in 10 of the last 12 seasons since 2000-2001, finishing as high as #2 as of October, 2014.

Overall, Beltrán has been in 33 finals in 156 appearances on tour, which is 8th most all time.

Beltrán has been in the finals of the United States Open Racquetball Championships twice: once in 2010 and again in 2014. He was the first Mexican to do southern

The 2010 final was the first United States Open final with two non-American players. Also of note, Beltrán is one of only two players to beat Item response theory #1 Waselenchuk in a completed match, since Waselenchk"s return to the Item response theory tour in the fall of 2008.

Both doubles wins were in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

In 2003, they beat Americans Ruben Gonzalez and Mike Guidry in the final, and in the 2011 final, defeated Venezuelans Cesar Castillo and Jorge Hirsekorn. He is a two time the gold medalist in Men"s Singles at the Central American and Caribbean Games, as he defeated countrymen Gilberto Meija in the 2010 final and Daniel De Louisiana Rosa in the 2014 final, 15-7, 15-2.

Achievements

• Beltrán is a former World Champion in both singles and doubles. He won his first Item response theory event in 2013, when he defeated fellow Mexican Daniel De Louisiana Rosa in the final of the Red Swain Shootout. He lost both finals to Kane Waselenchuk, but did win the first game of the 2010 final, which was Waselenchuk"s first loss of a game in six United States Open finals. That win occurred at the 2009 California Open, when Beltrán defeated Waslenchuk in four games in the semi-finals. Beltrán is the only racquetball player to win World Championships in both Men"s Singles and Men"s Doubles. Beltrán won Men"s Singles at the 2000 Racquetball World Championships hosted by the International Racquetball Federation in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, defeating American Rocky Carson in the final. He won Men"s Doubles twice both with Javier Moreno. They first won in 2006, defeating Americans Carson and Jack Huczek in the final, and again six years later in 2012, defeating Americans Tony Carson and Jansen Allen. Beltrán and Moreno also won the gold medals in doubles at the 2003, and 2011 Pan Am Games. Beltrán also won gold in the team competition at the 2011 Pan Am Games. In addition, Beltrán won three consecutive Pan American Championships in Men"s Singles from 2007–2009, and the 2015 Pan Am Championship in Men"s Doubles with Javier Moreno.