PPA Cary Day Two Highlights

What a serve out the gate. I mean, wow, she was on the court to close it out in the first match of the best two out of three final series against the Saint Louis Shock helped her team back into the fold. Georgia Johnson, the closer in match 2. Lease Jones can hit the scoreboard here. There she goes, never mind. Spoke too soon. Wow, what a kid from Anthony Waters. Again, goes behind or throws into lefty and then buries it to the same corner. Take back game point. Such a good ball to the corner. Forcing Elise Jones on the full extension. Pickle performance for Annalee Waters, who has not taken a singles loss since June 1st, 2024. Again, just playing that space behind. Nice, here we go. Slapper from Elise Jones. No points, but it's. Yeah, just and just for even right there. A lot of players would just smack that ball as hard as they can. Annalee is going to put that ball just where she cannot catch it. Slow enough angled enough that if she somehow did get to the ball, there's nothing she could do with it. Man. Great footwork from Jones. Yes, wasn't enough though. Nice little lefty. Oh man, that's not fair at match point. Waters gets a quick off the tape. Lot of respect between these two and a great effort from Elise Jones in this one and it's Annalee Waters. That gets the final touch double pickle. Sales return early as Ben Johns. Here's the career record. For the greatest show all time 249 wins, 36 losses, John Lucian Goins has this ability to swing through a ball and accelerate it so easily or not. And it's it's hard to read for opponents. It's a he's so smooth with hit with striking the ball. You look at a serve like that. He's not even trying to bullet his serves and create something. He's often laying it in, just getting it heavy enough and deep enough. And he's able to cover the ball that Ben hits behind him. I mean, that is a funky like one handed backhand, but he does it so well. Oh man, wide open court just missed it. Game point pickle points. Point it is. Wow, pickle performance indeed for John Lucian Goins dialed in and looking for another win against Ben Johns. Will be back in a moment. Game two is next. Tall order of finding the last time that happened, but it very well might be history. Sarah, I I'm I'm asking chat GBT to see if we could find it. Will say it's a. Wow, this guy can't miss it. This is where he can minimize that backswing so he's he's shorting that backswing no further to the hip, really absorbing it off the balance and creating a phenomenal passing shot. And then 2022 now and I'm still not seeing any sort of pickle, so we'll keep scrolling and keep tabs on that. Wow. And John is kind of like for all of these points he's he's absorbing the return, not doing a lot with it and just coming in. Who? One of the balls to miss that is for sure. That's for sure, especially at that height. Yeah, he did go for more on that return. He let it come up a little bit higher, but still didn't quite get what he wanted. Really takes placement as a priority. He's relentless at the baseline. John Lucian Gowans slips another pass. Bizarre scoreline here. Game point Pickle Point. There's that backhand. Oh, we missed it again. John Lucian Gowans gets two pickles on Ben Johns and I believe made history getting the first ever pickle against Ben Johns in a game one. Somebody check me on that, but I'm pretty sure that that staff will stand. Yeah, singles for sure. Game one has seven career goals to her name. Point later with the PPA. Now you're looking at draw format. It's you now it's just you. Your mental side has to be straight. You've got to be taking care of yourself physically. He's fully. Wow, what a spot for Fahy on the recovery there. Yeah, I keep it. He's passing shots are just ridiculous. It's if you're going to be approaching the net on Kate, it's gotta be a good shot. You've got to make sure that you're prepped for the next ball. It's that kind of edge that's. I want to go for it a little bit more. Nice Polly from Kate Fahy commanding punch and guess what Chris Hayworth? I actually like that alley. Just ran to her towel to towel off. I honestly that's what I want to see for. I want to see her going after it. A little bit more wanting the next point. Just a bit wide there at game point against Fahy. Game 11 grabs game one. She's the defending champ here from a season ago. We'll see if she can continue that trend when we come back from the short commercial break. It's great, cause I think it can handle 100% like she's like, cool, whatever like, but that's sometimes you need something to fire you up and that'll do it. Or get you focused. Nice. Sometimes it's nice to be able to put your energy somewhere. Typically cleans up the gold medals when Annalee Waters is not in the draw. Oh, what a gift from Fahy. Yeah, incredible approach shot to into that forehand. Let's go. Kate Fahy takes it. Only surrenders three points and dominance. The word that comes to mind when seeing Kate Fahy ease her way through the draw moving on to the round of 16. She's a force. She resides in North Carolina. Sign up. Point. Tough outs for Tama and. Heavy start for Eric Anson's 6-0. There's the career record for the young Thomas Shimabukuro finds himself in a 6-0 hole. Masterful again, 9-0 for Anson Sarah. To your point, you've spent quite a bit of time in Asia lately. It's not an easy turnaround. Nice foley. That's a huge adjustment. Cause those two volleys from Eric Anson's first that deep backhand into Thomas forehand that Tama really barely gave over and changing the angle incredible. My goodness. Wow, Eric was in control of that point, really had the opportunity, and that's what Tama does. He makes you guess and second guess yourself. But again, it's in. Wow, no lucky right back to the same corner. What a play from Thomas Shimabukuro. Oh no, Sarah, the last ball is out. He's there. Wow, that's a, well, thank goodness. For real, yeah. Tama got this back because as you saw a moment ago, that ball was out, but with a mark, Tama's in a tough spot. He's not gonna make any tight calls at risk of losing a point. He was looking at it for sure. It looked like he wanted to call that out. There he goes to a third game. We go 12-10 finish for Tama Shimabukuro, the youngster. That was the first person Federico Staxery went over and hugged in the VIP tent after winning in New York last weekend. Guy that just made for the camera. Loves it. Side out. Medical timeout requits. Oh. The shoulder. Medical timeout here for Onsens. That's not good. Okay. Oh my. Tweener to ATP. Oh wow. Style points on the tweener or efficacy? I mean, absolutely. I'm thinking he's getting points from that. That was like a, was it two hand? It was like a backhand tweener. And how about the ATP response from Tama? And now Tama is in full control. 10-1. Match point. Shimabukuro. The dipping third to set up the closing touch on the angle. The young Tama Shimabukuro escapes this one. He was at risk of being outed in two games. Came back and was in full control. So that makes your flight from New York feel a little better on Monday. Oh, what a game from Fed. And boy was Fed clutch in that dream breaker on Sunday against Hunter Johnson. Definitely the right move for the fives to be. Put the team on his back and said, we're taking it in two. Wow. Just so clean from Fed. That's what he does so well. He's always looking to move forward. He's not afraid to take the ball that's going to take him into the net. Wide open and found it. 11-6 Federico Stachsrud. Just gets, absolutely gets there. And that's when Donald's got the opportunity and goes right at Fed. That was unexpected. Match point number two here for Stachsrud. From a tweener return to a short hop return. Federico Stachsrud. Polishes off Donald Young. And Lee Waters front of the family members with the first serve. Just back for Michael Lloyd. Off the tape, she's there. What a move. Left side, Annalie, what a lob. Oh man, the perfect setup. You finally get them vulnerable. Oh my. Out of the air, the coveted roll. Iconic shot for Ben Shons. And now you have Annalie Waters hunting in the middle with her backhanded poach. Point game 11-1. And just gliding through the end of game one. Second serve. Again, using those kind of short angles. Tweener. Well, that worked out. All right. Completely left his partner on the court for that one, but. Hey, you got this. Match point. Inside out of the butte, out of the air. And what a run for Waters and Shons. They were denied a title in this neck of the woods last year. And right now it looks like they would not be denied of that this season. Long way to go though. Let's play pickleball. Point. And you think that ball is a little bit up and you have a chance to speed up and then you realize you are attacking Hayden Patricklin and it doesn't always go your way. On the first server. And they're going to switch without serving. Again, if you're new to this one, you weren't with us yesterday, part of our new year, Adam, is we're switching after every game, not just the third. At six, we praised the first one. That one was a disaster. And he's not used to somebody who can move that fast into the middle. Oh, what a beautiful combo platter of angles for Brahman Bowie. That was nice. And third time's the charm with the classic H backhand flickaroo back cross court and the two seed. Anwar Brahman, there's what we talked about. That explosive step to cover a line was really nice. Yeah, I agree completely. He always plays a few points like that. Any times I have watched him play, got to put eyes on him a good number of times this summer. She has stepped up in game two. No doubt about it. Much cleaner with the soft stuff to extend rallies and allow Brahman to find some offense. Earlier this week and the previous month and however long back. Wicked angle and hammered. That is deep and that'll do it. So, Hayden Patrick with Anna Bright. End of the round to 16. I liked a lot of what I saw. 12-10 in the third to Catherine and Riley. She had Casey Diamond by her side yesterday. So, frenemies yesterday, partners today. Yeah, there's the power advantage for seven. Could now would be her elder at 14. That's how young these kids are coming on the scene. It's happened to me. I have personal experience with that from Ella. That's holds it and just fires through the middle. That's nice. And that'll do it. So, five a piece and then the veteran said, enough's enough. Six in a row. Great handle from Ella off the tape there but put her in a rough spot. As soon as they play a soft plain shot right now, it's being fired at them. What a dig. Can't get the next one though. And that'll do it. So, it got to five a piece. And Adam, life's not fair. You gotta learn your way to the top and that's a great learning experience for these two youngsters. I agree. The more reps you can get on championship court, the better. So, agree with the futures being bright. We saw some nice shot making at times but a nice, powerful, overwhelming performance for Catherine Parenteau and Sophia Seving. Incredibly high. Gabe's got the ball. Let's play pickleball. And I will say that yesterday in mixed doubles, Gabe Tardio did look mortal at times with some inconsistencies. So, we'll keep an eye on that. All right. You give him that, I don't care if you're from Australia or anywhere. You're gonna eat it. Whoa. Unbelievable. How did Batia get that? I don't know. He's protecting the money maker. Yeah, he was. That is out and game one goes to the top seeds. 11 to two in 10 minutes, 57 seconds. Left side, Batia here and the Pascoe backhand. If you do put them over there, you have the middle covered. Of Diascu and Alshon. There's my guy. Wow, boy, this has got very personal. Loves, gotta love your heart aches there. Of course. Oh, baby. Full Tardioness. Adam, that barely went three feet over. Yeah, and we got a chuckle. Oh, Ben, walk off Burt TP. Crazy save. Ben's back to the left. And then just absolutely murders the last ball. That's the way to entertain us and walk out of here. And Smiley Ben is loving every minute of that. A most symmetrical two and two for the one. Look at that shot. And then Gabe was heading over to the left side and Ben's like, what are you doing? And you want to talk about melting a ball. The fact that Batia even got a paddle on that other one. Adam, they look dialed. These two are stone cold killers. Here they go getting their 26, 27 campaign underway. Let's play pickleball. And just rocking the two way out the gate is Anna Bright. Great third, a little bit of a pop up there. Yeah, this weekend is the team debut. They won yesterday. Some of the teams got a bye, others had to play. So Estee and Ava had to play yesterday. And this shot was in development last year. It is lethal, cracked cross court. And they're in such a hurry to march back and serve again. They're going to have to do it on the other end of the court here. Six, nothing, drill through the middle. You're like, hey, they're dictating play against us. We're going to fire. And then that happens right there. And you want to talk about working on being nasty on the left side. What a shot from Estee right there. We'll see if that changes this year. Adam, the ski racer played a beautiful point there and ends up eating it. That is deep and the Stone Cold Killers are back. 11-3 in game number one. A lot of court time on those young legs. And that adds up no matter what your age is. Takes it back where it came from. And certainly she's going to hit an ATP from there. And that'll do it. So Anna Bright, Anna Lee Waters looking so good and a much different hug than the last time they hugged at the net. This time, same side of the net. So they're moving on, round the 16 tomorrow. Adam, next up, the debut of Freak Show Johnson and young Tama, this is going to be fun.