Tucson, AZ, WPH Press, 11/9/25
The 2025 Race 4 Eight Memorial produced sensational handball from the R48, WR48, and SR48 pros, with Ray Ure capturing his first Race 4 Eight title in his fourth final, Niamh Heffernan adding to her 2025 WR48 Player’s Championship with her second title at the 2025 Memorial, and David Fink winning his sixteenth SR48 title.
Ure’s first Race title catapulted his from #7 to #5 in the rankings, while Leo Canales’s dramatic quarterfinal comeback against Danos Cordova shot him back into the Race 4 Eight top three. Mark Doyle jumped back into the Race 4 Eight Elite 8 with his semifinal finish at the Memorial, while Lucho’s fifth place Memorial finish kept him in the top two.
Martin Mulkerrins remains the R48 #1 after appearing in his tenth final in his last ten starts, while Ivan Burgos remained in the top four after his seventh place Memorial showing.
Niamh Heffernan increased her lead as the WR48 #1 with her Memorial title, while Aoife Holden earned her career best #2 WR48 ranking after making her first WR48 final at the 2025 Memorial. Mollie Dagg made her debut in the WR48 top five after her third-place finish at the Memorial.
Despite losing his first SR48 match, Sean Lenning ascended to the SR48 #1, while David Fink slid to #2. Boxer Rosales announced himself as a top three 40+ star at the Memorial, finishing third at the Memorial after nearly upsetting Sean Lenning in the semifinals and moving into the SR top three.
The R48 and WR48 will next be in action in St. Louis in late January, while the SR will next compete at the LAAC in March.
See all of the R48, WR48, and SR48 rankings below.
The methodology used for the 2025/26 season is attached here:
More Methodology:
In the current 2025/26 season, the WPH will count all six stops toward the season’s rankings (for Elite Men). Right now, there are 9 events that count toward the rankings. How will those 9 stops get eliminated throughout the season?
Here is how we will get down to 6 events:
At the completion of PDX 2025 we will drop Memorial 2024 and Portland 2024, leaving us with 8 events
At the completion of Memorial 2025 we will temporarily have 9 events
At the completion of Missouri 2026 we will drop Icebreaker 2024 and Montana 2025, leaving us with 8 events
At the completion of Juarez 2026 we will drop Juarez 2026, leaving us with 8 events
At the completion of LAAC 2026 it will be the last event prior to SLC 2026 so we will drop LAAC 2025, HOF 2025, Texas 2025, and SLC 2025, leaving us with 5 events
At the completion of SLC 2026 in addition to the prior 5 events we will finish the season with 6 events