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Top Seeds Win All Divisions at 2026 PPA Tour Finals
The 2025-26 Professional Pickleball Association season concluded with the 2026 Toys R' Us Tour Finals in San Clemente, California. All five top seeds won their respective divisions in men's singles, women's singles and mixed doubles. The event featured a group stage format followed by semifinals and finals.
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The 2025-26 Professional Pickleball Association season ended last weekend with the 2026 Toys R' Us Tour Finals at the Life Time fitness center in San Clemente, California. The tour's top players competed in a group stage format designed to produce high-quality matches throughout.
Several finals were broadcast on national television. By the conclusion of the event, the top seed in each of the five divisions had secured the title. The format placed eight qualifying singles players or doubles teams into two preliminary pools for round-robin play.
The top two from each pool advanced to semifinals, followed by finals. No bronze medal matches were held. Players earned ranking points as follows: 300 for each group stage win, 400 for a semifinal victory and 700 for winning the final. A player or team that went undefeated could earn a maximum of 2,000 points over the weekend.
In men's singles Pool A, top seed Christopher Haworth lost his opening match to Connor Garnett but recovered with a win over Alshon. Garnett advanced alongside Haworth after edging Jack Sock. Sock and Alshon later retired with injuries, leading the tour to bring in replacement players Khlif and Vich for the final day of pool play.
Haworth finished second in the group and advanced. Pool B saw upsets as teenager John Lucian Goins defeated Hunter Johnson. Federico Staksrud and Goins advanced from the pool. In the semifinals, Haworth defeated Staksrud after splitting the first two games and winning the third 11-0.
Goins beat Garnett 11-5, 11-2 to reach the final. Haworth then defeated Goins 11-2, 11-8 in the final to claim the title. The victory capped a season in which Haworth rose from unranked to the top of the rankings.
