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| Nationality | Mexican | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | July 4, 1993 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Racquetball | |||||||||||||||||
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| Highest world ranking | 5th 2013-14 | |||||||||||||||||
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Daniel De La Rosa (born July 4, 1993) is a Mexican racquetball player. De La Rosa was ranked 5th at the end of the 2013-14 International Racquetball Tour (IRT) season, which was his second season in the top 10. He's the third Mexican player to be in the IRT top 10 after Alvaro Beltran and Javier Moreno.
Professional career
De La Rosa played a few IRT tournaments each season since 2008-09. He first reached the Round of 16 in 2010-11, doing so three times and repeating that in the 2011-12 season. In 2012-13, De La Rosa played half of the IRT events, and made his first career semi-final at the Stockton Pro-Am, losing to Rocky Carson in three games, 11-8, 11-2, 11-2, as well as three quarterfinals. Those results helped put him 9th in the season ending rankings.
It wasn't until started 2013-14 that De La Rosa played full time on the IRT, as he entered ten of the eleven events. He reached his first career final in Davison, Michigan, where he lost to countryman Alvaro Beltran, 11-8, 10-12, 11-8, 11-4, in what was the first IRT final between two Mexican players in IRT history.[1] In addition in 2013-14, De La Rosa made at least the quarterfinals in each tournament he entered, and reached the semi-finals twice. As a result, De La Rosa achieved a career high 5th ranking at season's end, which is the second best ranking ever for a Mexican player.
International career
De La Rosa was 17 when he won Men's Singles the 2011 Pan American Racquetball Championships, narrowly defeating American Chris Crowther in the final, 12-15, 15-14, 11-9.[2] In 2014, he and Edson Martinez won Men's Doubles at the Pan Am Championships beating Americans Jose Rojas and David Horn in the final, 14-15, 15-12, 11-1.[3]
In July 2014, De La Rosa qualified to play Men's Singles for Mexico at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games in Veracruz, Mexico in November.[4]
Personal
De La Rosa is sponsored by Pro Kennex.