Kane Waselenchuk
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Waselenchuk at 2014 US Open Racquetball Championships
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| Nationality | Canadian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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November 9, 1981 Edmonton, Alberta |
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| Residence | Austin, Texas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Racquetball | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Jim Winterton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| National finals | 1st Singles 1999-2001, 1st Doubles 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest world ranking | 1 2004-2006, 2009-2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kane Waselenchuk (born November 9, 1981) is a professional racquetball player from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Waselenchuk finished the 2015-16 season as the #1 player on the International Racquetball Tour (IRT) for the 11th time. He won 10 IRT events in 2015-16. Waselenchuk, a left-handed player, has dominated the IRT for the last nine seasons, including a record 137-match unbeaten streak that lasted over three years.
Waselenchuk has won 100 IRT tournaments through the 2016 US Open (October 9, 2016), which is the most career IRT wins ahead of Cliff Swain with 70. Remarkably, Waselenchuk's won those 100 tournaments in only 149 tournament appearances for a tournament winning rate of 67.1%.
Waselenchuk has won twelve US Open Racquetball Championships, pro racquetball's most prestigious event, which is more than any other player (Sudsy Monchik is second with four US Open titles). He won it from 2003 to 2005 and from 2008 to 2016.
Waselenchuk was undefeated in completed matches between January 2009 and September 2013 with his only losses coming from defaults due to injury. The streak was ended by Jose Rojas in the semi-finals of the Kansas City Pro-Am - the first IRT tournament of the 2013-14 season.
In 2008-09, Waselenchuk went 49-1, with the only loss to Alvaro Beltran in the semi-finals of the California Open in January 2009. He regained the US Open title - his fourth, although did lose some games on the road to the final, including two in a tie-breaker win over Beltran. Waselenchuk finishes as the #1 IRT player for the fourth time, although he did miss three events.
Waselenchuk won 9 of the 10 IRT events in the 2009-10 season - defeating Jack Huczek in six finals and Rocky Carson in two, and Ben Croft in another. He won 102 games and lost only 3, and did not face a tie-breaking 5th game in any match. The only tournament Waselenchuk did not win was one he missed due to illness. In October, he won his 5th US Open title setting a new mark for most US Open titles by a man, passing Sudsy Monchik's 4 titles, and did not lose a game in winning the title.
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