{"id":28026,"date":"2023-10-21T21:25:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T01:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/?p=28026"},"modified":"2023-10-22T09:52:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T13:52:27","slug":"opening-day-for-canada-at-the-pan-american-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/opening-day-for-canada-at-the-pan-american-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Day for Canada at the Pan American Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Photo credit :<\/strong> Express Media \/ Panam Sports<\/p>

The opening day of competition went well for Team Canada at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Lambert had the most challenging schedule with three matches.<\/span><\/p>

Both Lambert and Mich\u00e8le Morissette started off the day for Canada, facing opponents from Chile who had a lot of home country support.<\/p>

Lambert played Paula Javiera Mansilla, winning fairly easily in in three games, with scores of 11-3, 11-2, 11.6. Morissette had a tougher match against Carla Mu\u00f1os. She played well, particularly in the second and third games, but Mu\u00f1oz won, 11-4, 12-10, 11-7.<\/p>

Lambert and Morissette were back on the court in the afternoon in women\u2019s doubles against Jimena Gomes and Maricruz Ortiz. Canada took control in the first two games, had a tougher time in game 3, but put the match away in game 4 with scores of 11-8, 11-7, 7-11 and 11-5.<\/p>

Lambert and Samuel Murray played the last match of the day for Team Canada, facing Andres Acu\u00f1a and Maricruz Ortiz. Lambert and Murray were in control of the first two games and came from behind to almost finish the match in 3 games but missed that opportunity. They took back control and ended the match in four games winning 11-7, 11-2, 10-12, 11-5.<\/p>

Sam Murray and Coby Iwaasa both had byes in men\u2019s singles and doubles today. Iwaasa is eager to get onto the courts tomorrow and begin his Pan Am Games tournament.
Hearing Lambert and Murray introduced today as the 2022 World Championship silver medalists was a reminder of how strong Team Canada was at the last World Championships.<\/p>

However tomorrow Team Canada is the lower seed in almost all matches so the road to the podium won\u2019t be easy, but Team Canada is up for the challenge.<\/p>

Here is the line-up for tomorrow\u2019s matches for Team Canada.<\/p>

Women\u2019s Singles (Round of 16)<\/strong><\/p>

(17) Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Lambert (Canada) vs (1) Natalia Mendez (Argentina)<\/p>

Men\u2019s Singles (Round of 16)<\/strong><\/p>

(7) Samuel Murray (Canada) vs (10) Gabriel Garcia (Costa Rica)<\/p>

(8) Coby Iwaasa (Canada) vs (9) Andres Acu\u00f1a (Costa Rica)<\/p>

Women\u2019s Doubles (Quarterfinals)<\/strong><\/p>

(8) Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Lambert \/ Mich\u00e8le Morissette (Canada) vs (1) Alexandra Herrera \/ Montserrat Mejia (Mexico)<\/p>

Men\u2019s Doubles (Quarterfinals)<\/strong><\/p>

(6) Coby Iwaasa \/ Samuel Murray (Canada) vs (3) Alejandro Landa \/ Daniel De La Rosa (United States)<\/p>

Mixed Doubles (Quarterfinals)<\/strong><\/p>

(8) Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Lambert \/ Samuel Murray (Canada) vs (1) Angelica Barrios \/ Conrrado Moscoso (Bolivia)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo credit : Express Media \/ Panam Sports The opening day of competition went well for Team Canada at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Lambert had the most challenging schedule with three matches. Both Lambert and Mich\u00e8le Morissette started off the day for Canada, facing opponents from Chile who had a lot of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":28035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28026"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28065,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28026\/revisions\/28065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}