*ABC’s of the 2025-2026 PPA Tour Season (*Anna Leigh and Ben’s Championships)

(Stats cited refer to gold medal matches)

ANNA LEIGH WATERS:

• Medals: Waters won medals in all 46 of the events she played in. 43 gold medals, one silver, and two bronzes. 
• Singles: Waters won 12 times in 12 tournaments, running her streak to 25 tournaments in which she entered. In those 12 gold medal matches, Waters won 24 games while losing only one game, to Kate Fahey in Utah. Waters had more “Clean Winners” then her opponent in eleven of those twelve matches.
• Doubles: Waters won 16 gold medals and two bronzes in 18 tournaments. Waters finished 2025 with a title at Daytona Beach with Jorja Johnson. Waters and Anna Bright, in their 15 finals together, lost only two games, both to Tyra Black and Parris Todd. They had more “Clean Winners” than their opponents in 13 of those 15 finals. Bright and Waters finished the season with seven straight three-game sweeps. 
• Mixed Doubles: Waters and Ben Johns won 15 gold medals and one silver in 16 tournaments. Their silver was to Anna Bright and Hayden Patriquin in three games at Mesa. Bright and Patriquin forced them to a four-game final twice and a five-game final twice. The Johnsons also pushed Waters and Johns to a five-game final. Waters and Johns finished their season with three three-game sweeps.
• Triple Crowns: Waters played in all three disciplines 12 times and earned Triple Crowns in ten of them, raising her PPA Tour-record total to 44. She has won Triple Crowns in at least three consecutive tournaments six different times.
• Greatness on Gold Medal Games: Waters won 85% of the games played in gold medal matches, compiling a record of 96-16. She or her team won in the minimum number of games necessary in 34 of those 44 gold medal matches.
• 2026-2027: Waters enters the 2026-2027 season with 194 titles: 63 Singles, 65 Doubles, and 66 Mixed Doubles. Her “lowest” total, 63 in Singles, is still more than the overall career titles won by any other player other than Ben Johns. Her longest active winning streak in tournaments entered is 25 in Singles, dating back to May 2024.

BEN JOHNS: 

• Medals: Johns won 31 gold medals and two silvers. He won golds in both Men’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles at a tournament 14 times.
• Singles: For the first year or season in his career, Ben did not win a Singles title. He won a silver at Mesa, losing to Chris Haworth in the final. He lost in earlier rounds five times, and did not play Singles, or did not play at all, in the other 14 tournaments. 
• Doubles: Johns and Gabe Tardio won 16 of the 17 tournaments they entered, getting knocked off the medal podium only once, at the World Championships. Nine of their 16 gold medal matches were three-game sweeps. Christian Alshon played this team especially tough. He was an opponent in five of the seven finals that went more than three games. Hayden Patriquin was in four of those four- or five-game finals. Johns and Tardio finished the season by winning eight consecutive tournaments, a record in Men’s Doubles.
• Mixed: Johns and Waters won 15 golds and one silver together. They won ten tournaments together before losing in Mesa, then they won the last five tournaments they entered.
• Triple Crowns: Johns did not have a Triple Crown this season. He played in all three finals only once, at Mesa. He has 21 career Triple Crowns.
• Greatness on Gold Medal Games: Johns won 81% of the games he played in gold medal matches, compiling a record of 64-15.  Johns or his team won in the minimum number of games necessary in 18 of those 33 gold medal matches.
• 2026-2027: Johns enters the new season with 185 titles: 42 Singles, 64 Doubles, and 79 Mixed Doubles. His “lowest” total, 42 in Singles, is still more than the overall career titles won by any other player other than Waters and Catherine Parenteau. His longest active winning streak in tournaments entered is ten in Doubles, starting in Lakeland last November.  

Johns is the only player to have won at least one gold medal in every year since the Tour’s inception in 2020. This Fall he is expected to win a gold medal in his 100^th different tournament.