Championship Sunday Standout Stats from the Rate Vegas Cup

Las Vegas, Nevada.

October 26, 2025.

MIXED DOUBLES FINAL: (1) Anna Leigh Waters and Ben Johns def. (5) Jessie Irvine and Gabe Tardio, 11-2, 12-10, 11-7.

• Waters and Johns have won eleven titles together this year, and 55 overall.
• Waters and Johns had more Clean Winners (20-12).
• Waters and Johns had fewer dinks into the net or wide (13-4).
• Part of Waters’ 37th career PPA Triple Crown, and sixth this year.
• Longest rally: 55 shots.

MEN’S DOUBLES FINAL: (1) Ben Johns and Gabe Tardio def. (2) Christian Alshon and Andrei Daescu, 12-10, 9-11, 11-7, 4-11, 12-10.

• Highest score in a Men’s Doubles Final Game Five since April 2023 (13-11 at Red Rock).
• Most combined points scored in a Men’s Doubles Final since May 2022. (99 points at Atlanta).
• Alshon and Daescu had a Game Point in one game and Match Point in another, but won neither game and lost the match. This had never happened in any PPA final since at least the start of 2022. 
• Johns and Tardio have won six consecutive tournaments while playing together, matching Ben and Collin Johns’ Men’s record streak.
• Johns and Tardio had fewer dinks into the net or wide (8-3). 
• Eleven rallies were 40 shots or more.
• Longest rally: 77 shots.

WOMEN’S DOUBLES FINAL: (1) Anna Bright and Anna Leigh Waters def. (3) Tyra Black and Parris Todd, 11-13, 11-6, 11-2, 11-1.

• Bright and Waters have 12 career titles together and five this year.
• Part of Waters’ 37th career PPA Triple Crown, and sixth this year.
• Bright and Waters lost a Game Point and that game, but won the match anyway. This turnaround happens only 27% of the time.
• Bright and Waters had more Clean Winners (18-9).
• Bright and Waters had fewer Serve & Return Errors (5-0).
• Longest rally: 48 shots.

MEN’S SINGLES FINAL: (2) Federico Staksrud def. (16) Roscoe Bellamy, 11-3, 11-2.

• Staksrud’s 16 career men’s singles titles are second all-time.
• Staksrud has beaten 14 different players in gold medal matches.
• Bellamy’s second career final (both this year)
• Staksrud had more Clean Winners (7-3) and fewer Serve & Return Errors (8-1).
• Longest rally: 11 shots.

WOMEN’S SINGLES FINAL: (1) Anna Leigh Waters def. (11) Genie Bouchard, 11-5, 11-5.

• Waters has a 55-3 career record in Singles finals, and has won 44 consecutive gold medal matches.
• Part of Waters’ 37^th career PPA Triple Crown, and sixth this year.
• Waters had more Clean Winners (10-7) and fewer Serve & Return Errors (6-1).
• Bouchard’s second career final (both this year).
• Longest rally: 14 shots.

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