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2023 WPH R48 Icebreaker Full Preview

Tucson, AZ, WPH Press, 12/12/23

The third Race 4 Eight Icebreaker and twenty-fourth overall Icebreaker kicks off at the WPH’s Clark Park on Saturday, December 16, with the game’s best small ball stars aiming to etch their names onto the Clark Park Wall of Fame. In addition to the R48 Icebreaker, women’s and junior stars will also be in action in singles play.

Four-time Icebreaker champion Lucho Cordova enters the 2023 R48 Icebreaker as the defending champion and R48 #1. Lucho has not won a title since his 2023 Juarez R48 LTE win in April in Juarez and will have to overcome his surging brother Danos, five-time Icebreaker champion David Fink, 2023 Player’s Championship finalist Leo Canales, Jr., fourteen-time USHA 3-Wall national champion and R48 #6 Sean Lenning and nine additional Race 4 Eight pros to win his fifth Icebreaker.

Women’s Icebreaker stars Mikaila Esser and Ashley Ruiz will renew their rivalry at Clark Park in the Women’s Pro singles, with WR48 #6 Clodagh Munroe making her first Icebreaker start and Tucson’s Belisa Camacho rounding out the women’s round robin field.

The WPH will film the action and upload the matches to Patreon (HERE). You can follow all of the 2023 R48 Icebreaker action with daily recaps on wphlive.tv

2023 WPH R48 Icebreaker

  • Date: December 16-17, 2023
  • Site: WPH Clark Park, 200 S. Alvernon Way, Tucson, AZ 85711
  • Tournament director: WPH
  • Pro Events: R48 Small Ball Pro Singles, Women’s Singles, Junior Singles
  • List of WPH Icebreaker pro singles champions entered: Fink (5), Lucho (4), Montijo (1)
  • Defending R48 Icebreaker champion: Lucho
  • Number of WPH ranked pros entered: 14

R2 page for the 2023 WPH R48 Icebreaker HERE

Icebreaker Fun Facts HERE

Race 4 Eight Fun Facts HERE

Icebreaker pro player bios HERE

Race 4 Eight pro player bios HERE

WPH Coaching Centers HERE

WPH Workout Central HERE

2023/24 Race 4 Eight schedule HERE

David Fink

WPH Senior Writer

DV: David Vincent formed the World Players of Handball in 2005 and ushered live handball viewing into our living rooms for the first time. Since its inception, the World Players of Handball has broadcast over 1,500 matches live. Dave Vincent serves as the lead play-by-play announcer for virtually all matches, combining his unique perspective and personality with a lifetime of handball experience. DV brings 25 years of broadcast radio experience (in Oregon and California) to World Players of Handball & ESPN broadcasts and provides professionalism and wit to the amazing game of handball. DV also serves as the Executive Director of the World Player of Handball at the WPH headquarters in Tucson, AZ, working daily to grow the game of handball through innovation.
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