Álvaro Beltrán

Álvaro Beltrán (born October 15, 1978), is a Mexican professional racquetball player. Beltrán is a former World Champion in both singles and doubles. Also, he is one of the top ranked players on the International Racquetball Tour (IRT). Beltran was ranked 3rd at the end of the 2013-14 IRT season.

Professional career

Beltrán has been the highest ranked Mexican player ever on the IRT. He's been ranked in the top 10 IRT at season's end in 10 of the last 12 seasons since 2000-01, finishing as high as #2 as of October, 2014. He won his first IRT event in 2013, when he defeated fellow Mexican Daniel De La Rosa in the final of the Red Swain Shootout. Overall, Beltrán has been in 33 finals in 156 appearances on tour, which is 8th most all time.

Beltrán has been in the finals of the US Open Racquetball Championships twice: once in 2010 and again in 2014. He was the first Mexican to do so. He lost both finals to Kane Waselenchuk, but did win the first game of the 2010 final, which was Waselenchuk's first loss of a game in six US Open finals. The 2010 final was the first US Open final with two non-American players.