Pro Racquetball Stats finalizes 2025-26 IRT and LPRT rankings

Pro Racquetball Stats finalized the 2025-26 rankings on June 24, locking the year-end tables for both the International Racquetball Tour and the Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour after the last points rolled off. The update turned a moving target into the sport’s official snapshot, with Kane Waselenchuk sealing the IRT’s No. 1 spot for the 16th time and Maria Jose Vargas finishing first on the LPRT singles list with 1,703.5 points.

The men’s standings were shaped at the KWM Gateway City Pro/Am in St. Louis, Missouri, where the IRT said nearly 200 players took part in the season finale. Eduardo Portillo beat Waselenchuk in the quarterfinals, Adam Manilla earned his first career victory over Jake Bredenbeck, and Andrés Acuña picked up his second IRT title of the season. Those results gave the final stretch real bite even as Waselenchuk stayed on top of the year-end table.

The IRT’s season-ending coverage made the title race plain: the 2025-26 campaign closed in St. Louis with Waselenchuk still No. 1, and the rankings page now reflects that finish as the first clean record of the new cycle. The men’s season produced five winners, including two first-time winners, underscoring how much turnover pushed against Waselenchuk’s hold on the top line.

The women’s side looks different but just as consequential. The LPRT’s frozen-rankings system, created to protect players returning from injury or maternity leave, left Paola Longoria at a frozen No. 2 even though the live points list showed her at No. 2 with 919 points behind Vargas’ 1,703.5. Montse Mejia sat third with 866.5 points, while Samantha Salas was No. 12 on points with 225 points and No. 9 in the frozen ranking picture.

That split between points and frozen status tells the story of a tour that is still sorting out its hierarchy. The archived season-end LPRT notes also showed how sharply the top changed from 2024-25, when Longoria claimed her 14th season-ending No. 1 ranking and Vargas and Mejia split the final two event wins. The current top 10 spans Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia, Chile and the United States, giving the women’s tour a broader international base as the new rankings set the board for the next run.