- BEN JOHNS enters Sunday with 99 career titles, 18 Triple Crowns, and eight “Double-Triples” with Anna Leigh Waters.
- ANNA LEIGH WATERS enters Sunday with 77 career titles, 17 Triple Crowns, and eight “Double Triples” with Ben Johns.
- CATHERINE PARENTEAU needs one win to join Johns (99), Waters (77), and Simone Jardim (32) as the only players with 30 or more PPA titles.
=== MEN’S SINGLES ===
#1 BEN JOHNS is in his ninth final this year. He won all of the previous eight times, including four against Federico Staksrud, most recently in Seattle in July. In Johns’s four wins reaching this final, he was pushed only once, in a 12-10 win over Julian Arnold.
#2 FEDERICO STAKSRUD lost only one game in four matches to get here (Jaume Martinez-Vich in the quarterfinals.) Staksrud has beaten Ben Johns before, in the semis in Arizona in February. 2023 has been his coming out party, earning two golds, five silvers, and two bronzes in singles.
Bronze: (4) Tyson McGuffin def. (3) Connor Garnett.
=== WOMEN’S SINGLES ===
With seeds 5, 6, 7, 9 and 11 all withdrawing during the first two rounds, it opened up the bracket for lesser seeds to make deep runs. Only three of the top eight seeds were in the quarterfinals.
#1 ANNA LEIGH WATERS allowed only 20 points in six games en…
