Championship Sunday Standout Stats from the Pickleball Central National Indoor Championships

Lakeville, Minnesota

January 27, 2026

MIXED DOUBLES FINAL: (2) Tyra Black and Christian Alshon def. (1) Anna Bright and Hayden Patriquin, 11-8, 11-9, 11-6.

• First Mixed Doubles gold medals for both Black and Alshon.
• Alshon’s first Mixed Doubles gold medal after eight straight silvers.
• Alshon hit 63 of his team’s 66 Third Shots.
• Black had no errors on Serves or Returns.
• Longest rally: 34 shots.

MEN’S DOUBLES FINAL: (1) Andrei Daescu and Gabe Tardio def. (2) Christian Alshon and Hayden Patriquin, 1-11, 14-12, 10-12, 11-8, 12-10.  

• Daescu’s ninth men’s Doubles title; Tardio’s 16th. 
• Daescu and Tardio trailed 8-3 in Game Five.
• All four players had ten-or-more Clean Winners for the first time in a final since last August in Las Vegas.
• Patriquin’s 24 Clean Winners was the most by a player in a Men’s Doubles final since Ben Johns had 25 at the Masters two years ago.
• Scoring three points or fewer in Game One and still winning a Gender or Mixed Doubles final? It happened only twice last year.
• Longest rally: 38 shots.

WOMEN’S DOUBLES FINAL: (1) Anna Bright and Anna Leigh Waters def. (3) Tyra Black and Parris Todd, 11-1, 6-11, 11-3, 11-5.

• Bright and Waters’ 16^th title together.
• Bright’s 25^th Women’s Doubles title; Waters’ 58th.
• Bright and Waters had more Clean Winners, 19-9.
• There were five Clean Winners in Game One. Waters had all five.
• Black had no errors on Serves, Returns and Thirds.
• Longest rally: 62 shots.

MEN’S SINGLES FINAL: (1) Hunter Johnson def. (5) Christopher Haworth, 11-6, 11-0. 

• Johnson’s seventh career title is third all-time behind Ben Johns (42) and Federico Staksrud (17). It also broke a tie at six with JW Johnson and Tyson McGuffin.
• Haworth was trying to be the first player to win three consecutive Men’s Singles titles since Ben Johns did it in Dec. ’22-Feb. ’23.
• Johnson had fewer Baseline Drive Errors, 16-4.
• Longest rally: 20 shots. (Match point).

WOMEN’S SINGLES FINAL: (4) Parris Todd def. (3) Lea Jansen, 11-5, 11-5. 

• Todd’s fourth career title, and first since Bristol last August.
• Jansen’s first final since the Cape Coral Open last March.
• Todd had fewer Baseline Drive Errors, 13-3.
• Longest rally: 19 shots.

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