Results:
Men’s doubles: 🥇JW Johnson & Dylan Frazier 🥈Federico Staksrud & Pablo Tellez 🥉Riley Newman & Matt Wright
Women’s doubles: 🥇Lucy Kovalova & Callie Smith 🥈Lea Jansen & Allyce Jones 🥉Yana Grechkina & Etta Wright
Mixed doubles: 🥇Catherine Parenteau & James Ignatowich 🥈Lauren Stratman & Julian Arnold 🥉Callie Smith & Dylan Frazier
Men’s singles: 🥇James Ignatowich 🥈JW Johnson 🥉Jay Devilliers
Women’s singles: 🥇Catherine Parenteau 🥈Lea Jansen 🥉Salome Devidze
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James Ignatowich and Catherine Parenteau led the way at the PPA Indoor Champions in freezing Minnesota over the weekend with two gold medals a piece! These mixed doubles partners won that event, then both of them paired it up with golds in singles.
In his post-match interview after the wins, Ignatowich aka “Big Poppa” playfully let the pickleball world know that he is up two PPA gold medals to Christian Alshon’s zero. While some pundits called this interview the best post-match interview in pickleball history, that award is still Ryan Sherry’s for the taking.
Ignatowich got his championship Sunday started with a win against JW Johnson in singles, then…