Christian Alshon vs Cason Campbell at the Pickleball Central Indoor National Championships | PPA PPA Tour và Christian

Bang. Yeah, that's that's good start for a case. I think he's like he did the first two points there. Bang the serve and bang the return. Go for his shots. Guys got a lot of one just wide from from Campbell and credit. It looked like one of the shots from case and hit off the net and how Sean reacted in real time to still land the volley off the charts early in this one. You see case and Campbell there go with the bit of a tea serve to the Alshon forehand. Looks like it caught him off guard. Make that three nothing in favor of the 14 seat. Now for what point do you call timeout here? Greg? I would say now for Christian, but it looks like he's going to keep it rolling momentum ties with the net. Sorry for that reaction. I just want to listen. I'm cheering for case in here. I'm sorry. I'm just going to say it. I don't care. I'm cheering for the underdog nothing against Christian, but and I did say you would keep this close and he's up for zip and you know, Greg's knock on wood. Knock on wood. But you know, remember the Humberg return the flat return and then she you know, so Greg's looking good today. That's the third net cord with it. You could have been down in that first round and certainly taking full advantage. Also, I'm looking for the backhand pass. It's the rate sign on the net. Yeah, good. Good spot on the return there for case in house. It's got it back in but definitely prefers the forehand somehow stays in case and Campbell firing on all cylinders just right on the line. The forehand winner. Come on makes it look so easy. But to follow the ball and hit the forehand with that timing while in the air often overhead to it's like for a winner like it's such a great shot. Oh, no. Okay. So and misfires on that backhanded and all of a sudden you kind of feel the momentum. It's palpable. It is off of just one point off of the two-point sequence. See if Alshon can feel it too. And it's interesting too. It's just like three mistakes by Casey, especially the first to the third one, you know, just now. Okay, whatever miss it for him. The first two are just mistakes. So not like Alshon doing anything special. That one was a good point by Alshon here in it. But like, you know, three points kind of given to Christian. I think Casey needs a timeout right now. It's going to choose to keep going three-six on the paddle of Christian Alshon. Hesitation there from Alshon looked like he wanted to try and step in and lunge take the back end out of the air decides not to. Yeah, a little indecision and it's a big point for Casey. What a return for Christian Alshon deep forehand corner. Just I would love for Cason to get off of six here. Just is playing. Well, six three just seems like it's just not enough of a gap right now. You know, Alshon is going to go on and run this game. You just know it. Another deep return from Christian Alshon. Slowly cut into this lead trailing by three. Just right on the backhand. Seen some trouble off that wing so far for the number three seat. Whether it's trying to hit inside and inside out forehand or just going for a standard backhand. We'll look to get that dialed in. There's the yell from Christian Alshon looking to will himself awake early in this one. Kind of uses that to raise his level race his intensity. Again, maybe just over jumps the volley. Yeah, it looked like. Not one that he usually misses for sure. Cason's got to take advantage though. It's been a few side out. He's got to get off six. There is what he does right there. That's angle on the forehand volley. So these two have actually faced off at this tournament before back in 2024. Alshon won that one in three games. So we could we could certainly be in store for for another one. Good to be back in Minnesota. There was weren't here in 2025, but always a fun stop. Here we go. Especially since we're indoors not outdoors. You know what? I kind of like the cold for like 10 seconds. Back in again failing Alshon visibly frustrated on that lead out of the timeout. Grindy point there from Alshon. Not trying to be too aggressive wanting to force the air. 380. Decision to not hit that volley for real. Great decision from Alshon. You know, you just you know, there's going to be a run from Alshon. He's not going to give case in this game. In case and weather the storm and that's the shot right there. The backhand from Alshon is just he's trying to drive a couple. He tried a little drip there and it just has not worked. So great spot on the return from case in. Christian Alshon able to regain control of the point risky play with the drop volley from Campbell. It does not pay off. I know you just you just can't drop shot Alshon like that. The guy's too big too fast. Don't make that decision. Just don't love it. It's not Greg over there. It's Alshon. That's a good. When your opponent's way back and you've got a higher ball, whatever you can throw in the drop. Alshon was not on his back foot, right? Case was on his back foot there. I shot clean winner from Christian Alshon to number three seed. Big point out of the time out there for case and Campbell gets the serve back. Yeah, it's a spot. I mean, that's that's that's the recipe right there. Another backhand sprayed wide. Usually when you're missing it like that, it's because your contact points a little bit late. Yeah, and we've seen that same spot of a miss about three or four times so far this game. Nice change up on the serve Alshon shading backhand nice upper teeth in case and 10-6 game point for case in Campbell. Can we get a nice towel timeout use? Walks over to the towel walks over to the ball. You know, it's classic barely taps the ball over to case in you got to use it. I mean, I use it. It is what it is. And we're back to back missed returns from Christian Alshon 11-6 opening game for case in Campbell for Christian Alshon. Just long. The number three seed can find something here in the second. That's the x-factor right there that Alshon backhand dialed that one in on the first point. Yeah, absolutely. I mean it was just bad in the first game to be honest. He tried to drip it. He tried to drive it was missing both and that was a sick drift though. So a really good sign for Christian for this game. And that was a really tough one. He made like just kind of a quarter 60% drive down the line back at that's really tough and want to start here for Christian Alshon for nothing and you can't say you're surprised. He's the number three seed for a reason has so much experience competing in big matches being down and coming back. This is what you come to expect. From Christian Alshon. Are you kidding me? A touch of class from case in Campbell? King case in with the paddle angle on that shot completely open. We feel like that should be worth three points for sure. Case in with a quick fist pump there. He's not going to get you. You can't just get killed this second game. You don't want it to feel like a fluke in your head. If he gets beat 11 to this game, it might feel like a fluke the first game, right? Then you don't a lot of confidence going to the third. So even if he loses the second game, keep it reasonable if you're casing or just winning like that with the drop and you get some shoe instruction here on pickleball TV. Campbell a little frustrated that that ball didn't bounce up as high as he would have liked it to. Effectively serves as a timeout for Christian Alshon without having to burn one. Highly effective. Finished with a forehand was going backhand to backhand for four straight shots. Alshon claims the upper hand. Casey did all he could there but Alshon too good. The incredible court coverage from Alshon still not enough just precisely placed drives passing shots from casing Campbell just extending the rally as Alshon pays off. And he just made he makes the court look so small when he's at that kitchen line Greg. He really does because that was I mean just felt like Casey could put that ball anywhere and win the point but Alshon does it makes it feel like he's going to get to everything. The drop volley again and it's not like Alshon's not getting to them and taking the timeout on serve does not pay off for casing Campbell. I'll try to look to build his lead. Just clean and those are the types of points that Christian Alshon wants to play big serve finish it quickly with the forehand. Absolutely in case of doing a good job of not letting him get those easy points make him earn everything make him hit a lot of backhands, but I want to just can't hit it to the middle and let Christian have an easy forehand. It's just that it just can't happen. 8-2. Everybody see Campbell finds the backhand on that one pays off. And Alshon is going to challenge that call from casing especially on the backhand. That's been a lot of net courts in favor of casing Campbell so far in this one. I think that's five and that one surely had an impact on the outcome of that point. I can't believe Christian even got a paddle on that. I mean, it's a it's next-level athleticism and vision in reaction time. All of those things. Jason able to withstand the barrage of forehands. Now within three. Great serve point. That's the third teaser taken down. Gabe Joseph. 12-10 11-9 big win. That's a heck of a round of 16 matchup indoors. No free challenge results in a technical warning. One free challenge remaining. We'll resume play at point 68. Oh, no. Had a good look at a high backhand. Chance for Alshon to get off eight. And that's what he does. Clutch timing off the backhand drop. Yeah, using that drop drip with the backhand Alshon. He still hasn't really found the drive, but the drips are working. Alshon after that one telling himself to stay low kind of motioning to himself. Stay low through the shot. Looking to bring this one to a third game. I miss it. He has to just long. Christian Alshon drop volley into the backhand winner game point 10-6. 10-6. Coverage there from Kaysen Campbell gets to seven. You gotta love the fight in Kaysen Campbell down 8-2, 8-3 here could easily throw in the towel go to the third game, but he's still in this one. Campbell ambitiously going for that backhand angle unable to execute. Alshon another chance to send us to three. Stays in it. Alshon looking to go inside out there. Love the fight from Kaysen. And that is one that Alshon is going to want back fought through a great serve. Wow, fought through a net cord. Split screen here for a moment. Somehow in for Cam Chafin. So we're back here on Humana Championship Court as well. Kaysen Campbell now within 1-9-10. Feel like we're doing NFL Red Zone, right? Insane, too many good matches. Cam Chafin. That one called out from Staxrude. Alshon gets the serve back. Another game point, his third game point opportunity. Can feel the tension here at Lifetime. Lakeville spots in the quarterfinals on the line. Staxrude puts another one on the board still trailing by six there on grandstand. Alshon can close it out here. And he can as Campbell sends the forehand volley into the net. We're going three here on Humana Championship Court to go back to a two box. Christian Alshon starting things off against Kaysen Campbell. We mentioned it throughout this match, Greg. Finding Alshon's backhand has been the recipe for success for Kaysen Campbell finds it right there. As Cam Chafin gets the serve back on grandstand. 8-4. And a very extended towel side foul for Staxrude. The 44 seed is Cam Chafin. Wow. And misfires on that return 9-4. As Alshon strikes first here in game three. And a quick 2-0 lead here for Christian Alshon. There were some tense moments there in that second game, Greg, as Campbell is cutting into the lead. Oh man, Kaysen. Just wide the misfire and you see some frustration there from Kaysen Campbell. And Staxrude puts another one on the board on grandstand 5-9. So good from Kaysen. What a forehand drop to get the serve back and a little help off the net there for Staxrude on grandstand. Now the lead is just three. Another one for Staxrude. We got to take it off. I feel like we put the camera on grandstand and Staxrude wins six points in a row like I feel bad for Chafin right now. Was it 8-1? It was 8-1 and just for something like that for Cam Chafin, the clean backhand winner. And a clean forehand winner on the volley from Kaysen Campbell gets the serve back looking to get on the board. Staxrude misses the volley. Will Dotton and Greg Dow doing a little multicast action for you here from Minnesota as Kaysen tags Christian Alshon. That one was going to be nowhere near staying in and Campbell immediately apologetic even goes to get the ball after it ricocheted on the court. Point for Chafin and he misses the backhand. Oh my God, Chafin is going to challenge this one too. And we'll see if Federico 1-3. He's going to make another bad call as he penalized earlier. This one is huge. The match on the line as Campbell comes back with a clean backhand winner. This one does look to be just wide question mark. Yeah, I think so. It's very tough to overturn. Very tough to overturn that one. Very close. We expect to be confirmed on Grand Sengen. That was on match point. That could have been for all the marbles for Chafin to pull off. What would be the upset of the tournament to this point? Both top seeds in big battles right now. Three games. And so is the top of the number three seed Christian Alshon 3-2 here on Humanity Championship Court. And Alshon puts that one way authoritatively as stacks rude back to the line to serve on Grand Sengen. Into the net a nut match point on the paddle of Cam Chafin. Nerves of steel. For Federico stacks. You're able to find the angle on the backhand to match point saved. It's case in Campbell trailing to four here early in the third. Two for Cam Chafin unfazed. This is match point two or three or three. We'll see if three is the lucky number for the 44 seed for two extending the point but stacks rude says not finished yet. From Campbell wins the cat-and-mouse exchange. Are you kidding me? The feathery touch on the backhand non-stop entertainment here on Championship Court in Grand Sengen stacks rude finds the forehand angle pulls within two great volume case in the angle from Campbell pulls him within one what a sequence from Cam Chafin match point number four coming up on grandstand. I mean look at the cool calm and collected is the 14 year old is to the neck. Cam Chafin has done it. The 44 seed 14 years old takes down the number two seed Federico stacks rude 11-8 in the third. You see the final score line there. What a run in Minnesota for Cam Chafin beats Donald Young beats Adam Harvey beats Federico stacks rude back-to-back days. All it's just 14 years old. This sport is in very good hands for anyone who may be wondering transition transition our coverage back to Humana Championship Court. If you want all of the access that you could ever want to our pro courts here on the Karvani PPA Tour. Make sure you get the pickleball TV app or on YouTube TV. Amazon Prime as case in Campbell ties things up at four and you got to say Greg you mentioned in the second game. It was important for case and not to get blown out in game two. If he was going to lose. He got nine almost came back. We're seeing that really keeping things even here in game three as well. The momentum is not shifted too much. No, absolutely. I mean case in again. He could have brought you down 8-3 in a second. You know, it's probably to go three. You could have thrown in the towel if your case in the second, but he doesn't do that. He almost wins the second game. So love the fight that I saw in the second and we're all tied up here with a I mean that back in and it was a quick 30 lead for Ashan in this one now 5-4 fever of the 19 year old. Could we see another upset? The men's singles clean winner somehow stays in from Campbell and another chance to get to the end switch with a lead players will switch ends at 6 here in the deciding game. So good. That's so good. Finds the angle on the forehand and just set up by a nasty drip that forces out starting to hit a lower volley has hit up in the ball and then case with the easier forehand and we've been seeing case in Campbell having some success success, excuse me, with kind of multiple ball passes right now really going for the pass on the first shot, but really using that ball to get into an advantageous position in the rally. But unable to convert their chance for Alshon Ollie saves the point and Sean's within one miss return ties us up at seven. It's something we haven't really seen from either player saw a few at the end for Christian Alshon and now the ends in sight you start seeing some nerves and you get a miss. Yeah, miss serve as well or miss return. But yeah, I know it's been a really clean match for both players. Like you said, it's it's not haven't seen a lot of quick points and a lot of miss serves or returns. Everyone's making each other play the 8-7 lead looking to close this one out. And miss return and if you go back to before the timeout, we saw a missed serve from Christian Alshon straight into a missed return two points away from the victory is the number 14 seed. Too much pace on that return from Alshon. It was high. Looks like Campbell maybe wanted it a little too much. Yep. Just don't see. I mean the last four or five points Christian made so many easy mistakes for him. Kacen's got to close it out now before Christian wakes up. Goes back to the drop volley in a time of need pays off an Christian Alshon, but Kacen Campbell's yes, he can win the match. Kacen Campbell takes down the number three seed Christian Alshon a three-game thriller back and forth high-octane all of the adjectives you can think of to describe this match and some massive upsets. We have seen so far today in men's singles. We'll talk with Kacen Campbell out of the break. Greg final thoughts on this one. Kacen. I mean, what a performance for you. This match was back and forth high energy. A lot of insane ball striking. What in your mind was the difference for you at the end to get this one done? Yeah, my voice. First of all, my voice is bad. So I hope everybody can hear me. I didn't have too much thoughts going into it. I'm sick a little bit. So that's kind of in a way my focus that takes my mind off the match. So I was just, you know, taking my time between points and just trying to fight more than anything. Kacen, you fought so well out there. So proud of you, man. I mean, I was nervous up here watching you at the end. Were you? I mean, how nervous were you on a scale of 1 to 10 when it's like 9-7? You're like, oh my gosh. I'm going to beat Christian Alshon right now. How nervous were you, man? Yeah, I've had my I'm sure everybody does. Everybody has their fair share of not being able to close out matches. So just taking, like I said, taking my time between points, just letting my mind reset and try not to think about the score too much.