Nationality Mexican Highest world ranking 5th 2013-14 Role Player | Sport Racquetball Name Daniel la Career start 2008 | |
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Born July 4, 1993 (age 30) ( 1993-07-04 ) Chihuahua, Mexico | ||
Daniel De La Rosa-Sings - Moonlight Sonata.
Daniel de la Rosa (born July 4, 1993) is a Mexican racquetball player. De La Rosa won his first International Racquetball Tour (IRT) in December 2014, when he won the 2014 New Jersey Open. He joins Alvaro Beltran as the only Mexican players to win an IRT TIER 1 event. De La Rosa was ranked 5th on the IRT at the end of the 2013-14 season, his second season in the top 10. He's the third Mexican player to be in the top 10 after Beltran and Javier Moreno.
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Professional career
De La Rosa defeated Beltran in the final of the 2014 New Jersey Open, 11-4, 11-6, 9-11, 12-10, to win his first pro event. De La Rosa reached the final by beating Rocky Carson in the semi-finals, 12-10, 9-11, 11-6, 11-6. The win comes in De La Rosa's second season playing full time on the IRT.
De La Rosa began playing the IRT full time in the 2013-14 season, entering 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. 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.
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.
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. 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.
De La Rosa played for Mexico at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games in Veracruz, Mexico, where he earned a silver medalist in Men's Singles, losing to Beltran in the final, 15-7, 15-2.