Dialed-in Dinks:
Federico Staksrud and Hayden Patriquin were the only team to play a Doubles final (Sacramento Open) without hitting a dink into the net or wide. How rare is this? It happened only twice last year.
1-2-3 x 2:
Teammates in a Doubles final who did not hit a ball “out” on a serve, return, or third shot:
Ben Johns and Collin Johns, Houston Open, Men’s final.
Blunt Force Trauma:
Doubles finals where: (1) Every rally was fewer than 30 shots, (2) There was fewer than eight shots per rally, (3) The match had fewer than 1,000 shots overall:
Mixed Doubles final, Masters. (Waters & Johns def. Bright & Ignatowich)
Women’s final, North Carolina Cup. (Parenteau & Waters def. David & Schneemann)
Fundamentals:
Players in a Doubles final who did not hit a ball “out” on a serve, return, third shot, or dink. (This happened only three times last year):
Anna Leigh Waters, North Carolina Cup, Mixed Doubles.
Collin Johns, Houston Open, Men’s Doubles.
Federico Staksrud, Sacramento Open, Men’s Doubles.
Equal Opportunity:
Federico Staksrud’s five singles titles this year have come in finals against five different players. Better yet, his nine career titles have come in finals against nine different…
