Championship Sunday Standout Stats from the Veolia Cape Coral Open

Cape Coral, Florida

March 9, 2025

MIXED DOUBLES FINAL: (1) Anna Leigh Waters and Ben Johns def. (2) Anna Bright and JW Johnson, 4-11, 13-11, 11-7, 7-11, 11-5.

• Part of Waters’ 33rd career Triple Crown and second this year.
• Waters and Johns are 47-1 in finals together. (Waters, 49 overall; Johns, 62 overall)
• Waters and Johns are 10-0 in finals against Anna Bright, and 9-0 in finals against JW Johnson.
• Bright/Johnson had two game points in Game Two, and lost that game. Teams that “squander” game points this way in finals lost 76% of those matches.
• Waters and Johns had fewer volleys into the net, 28-15.
• Johnson had a match-high 18 Clean Winners, but also a match-high eight Third Shot Errors.
• Four of the five longest rallies were all in Game Five.
• Longest rally: 65 shots.

MEN’S DOUBLES FINAL: (1) Andrei Daescu and Ben Johns def. (2) Christian Alshon and Federico Staksrud, 11-2, 11-7, 11-1.

• Daescu won the last three tournaments (Mesa and Tucson with Alshon).
• In the last eight tournaments, Daescu has four titles and two bronze medals.
• Ben Johns’ last Doubles title with someone other than his brother Collin? August 2023 in Kansas City with Matt Wright. Collin was out with a sprained ankle.  
• Daescu and Johns had more Clean Winners, 20-8.
• Staksrud had a match high eight Serves/Returns/Thirds Errors.
• Longest rally: 29 shots.

WOMEN’S DOUBLES FINAL: (1) Catherine Parenteau and Anna Leigh Waters def. (2) Anna Bright and Rachel Rohrabacher, 13-11, 11-7, 11-5.

• Part of Waters’ 33rd career Triple Crown and second this year.
• Parenteau and Waters have won this match-up five straight times, this rivalry’s longest streak.
• Parenteau and Waters have 30 titles together; ten against Bright and Rohrabacher.
• Parenteau and Waters had fewer (dinks into the net or wide + volleys into the net), 30-20.
• Parenteau and Waters won all seven “game points for” or “game points against.”
• Longest rally: 48 shots.

MEN’S SINGLES FINAL: (7) Christian Alshon def. (6) Jaume Martinez Vich, 8-11, 11-3, 11-6.

• Alshon’s first career Singles title.
• Martinez Vich’s second silver medal this year.
• Alshon had fewer Serve and Return Errors, 10-1.
• Martinez Vich had five Return Errors in Game Three.
• Longest rally: 12 shots.

WOMEN’S SINGLES FINAL: (1) Anna Leigh Waters def. (6) Lea Jansen, 11-3, 11-7.

• Part of Waters’ 33rd career Triple Crown and second this year.
• Waters is now 14-1 in finals against Jansen.
• Waters had more Clean Winners, 14-7.
• Jansen rallied back after trailing 1-10 in Game Two.
• Longest rally: 12 shots.