The Report
Goins and Sock broke the draw. Waters has three finals
Good morning, pickleballers. Championship Sunday at Worlds starts at 16:00 London. Before the first final, titles have already been settled at the Challenger Showdown in Dallas, the European Open in Türkiye and the Sabah Open in Malaysia.
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Doubles action on the PPA Tour. AI-enhanced photo illustration. Photo: PPA.
The Lead · Worlds finals
Goins and Sock broke the draw. Waters still has three titles to win
John Lucian Goins and Jack Sock have, between them, eliminated the top four men’s singles seeds. Sock beat Federico Staksrud, Roscoe Bellamy and then Hunter Johnson, 11–5, 8–11, 11–1. Goins removed top seed Christopher Haworth and Christian Alshon in straight games. Seventh seed meets 13th, and neither has limped through.
Women’s singles went the other way. Anna Leigh Waters and Kate Fahey, the top two seeds, have won all 20 of their singles games between them. Waters also plays the mixed final with Ben Johns and the women’s doubles final with Anna Bright: three gold-medal matches, with singles listed last. Fahey has one.
None of the five finals has been played. Scheduled starts, London time and subject to movement: mixed 16:00, men’s singles 17:15, women’s doubles 18:10, men’s doubles 19:25, women’s singles 20:40.
Read the full finals preview →Challenger · Results
Burkhardt and Wang lead eight Challenger Showdown gold medallists
Matt Burkhardt beat Troy Akin 11–0, 12–10 for men’s singles gold, the only Challenger Showdown final completed in straight games. Eileen Wang beat Jessica Ho 6–11, 11–5, 13–11. Doubles gold went to Allie Reichert and Madalina Grigoriu, Riley Inn and Alex Emery, and Anne-Sophie Courteau and Juan Varon.
Four of the five finals went to a deciding game. The event says eight players will be offered 2027 PPA Tour contracts. Offers, not signed deals: Saturday settled who earned them.
Europe · Open mixed doubles
Kao and Matysik win European Open mixed gold in three games
PeiChuan Kao and Mateusz Matysik beat Jada Bui and Maximilian Wild 11–6, 5–11, 11–9 in Saturday’s 18+ Open mixed final at Ali Bey. Both finalists had lost the first game of their semi-finals. Megan Fudge and Aidan Schenk took bronze, 11–4, 11–5.
In both semi-finals the winners scored fewer points than the losers. The final at least went to the pair with more, 27–26. Five of the six medallists had also won medals in Friday’s gender doubles; the partnerships, and the title, were new.
Asia · Sabah Open
Quang Duong takes two Open titles as Sabah’s programme continues
Quang Duong won Friday’s 19+ Open singles in Kota Kinabalu, beating Luke Guansing 15–2. Across seven singles wins he scored 81 points and conceded seven. He then partnered Bao Duong to a 15–10 doubles final win over Ng Dickson and Muhammad Zhafree Siddiq Bin Kamarul Zaman.
The adult Open titles are settled. The wider tournament continues through Monday 9 November.
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