Anna Bright & Hayden Patriquin vs Parris Todd & Andrei Daescu | PPA World ChampionshipsChampionships

Yeah, I mean, from a size perspective, Andre and Hayden are very, very different. And so Hayden is, he's going to be very offensive. He's going to apply a lot of pressure and make Andre be small at times. Called him the Romanian Tower for his height once upon a time. McBride will be our first server in this one, playing for a spot in the semifinals. 15 seconds. Brayton Hayden Patrick Quinn at this event last year, lost to Anna Leigh Waters and Ben Johns in the semis. 0-0-2. Would meet in the final if they can get there. A very tight ball in the very first one. Are they going to challenge it? I don't know about a challenge this early. I feel, yeah, it's risky to say the least. Amy, our lead referee for this one, here's the update. The results of the rally is overturned, the ball was out. You retain your timeout, one timeout remaining, one timeout remaining. Resume play at 0-0-1. Okay. It's worth it then. Worth the challenge. Resume play, 0-0-1. Thank Rare miss from Anna Bright. Ironically enough, the only meeting between these two teams was Texas Open this year in March with wild wind conditions. Brayton Hayden Patrick Quinn won it. you. Second serve. That's so good from Anna Bright. Goes right behind Andrei Dascu. And that's a ball she could very just as easily go down the middle. 1-0-2. It's third from Todd. Pull through the middle from Paris Todd on the backhand. Yeah, really well played point from her, starting off with a fantastic drop. 2-0-2. Off the bounce to Annalee Waters-esque. Dig. Oh, wow. Great counter. Anna Bright teeing off down the line. When the girls can beat up on the boys makes mixed doubles so much fun. Nice initiation from Andrei Dascu. Line and then opens up the cross-court attack. 0-2-2. Big H comes to line. 1-2-2. I was trying to remember the score line with Todd and Descu. Their match against Noa Cliff and Tina Pisnik was epic yesterday. 12-10, 12-10, 11-3. Yeah, it was such a battle, and just the length, the consistency from Paris Todd throughout the match, huge difference maker. Broken nose and all. Yeah. Wow. How does that work in a match like this? It's basically Andre going way too early, committing entirely the wrong way. 4-2-2. Side out. Yeah, just really well controlled, loose in the shoulders. 4-1. There's team Anna Bright and Hayden Patrick Quinn. Anna Bright's mom offered me a t-shirt last night, asked me for my size. I cannot wait to see what design she comes up with. Haven't gotten it yet. There we go. I've got two at home myself. I don't know. What a gift from Andre. Oh, she had it, too, exactly in the right spot. 4-2-1. Just absolutely gets Anna Bright now moving the wrong direction. Really nice hold from Paris. 4-2-2. Test from AB down the line. He lets it fly, and it's two feet inside the baseline. What a move from Hayden Patrick Quinn. That's where he can be so dangerous, really cut across on just about everything. 5-2-2. Oh, Andrei Dascu wasn't ready for that one. 6-2-2, right and Patrick Quinn. She's got the vlog, her own show. She does it all, folks. Time in. And right now carrying a 6-2 lead with Hayden Patrick Quinn. Just an unfortunate net cord there for Andre. Team's flipping ends with the shadows starting to creep in on the sideline and also the wind conditions. Definitely like that rule change this season. What a get. Mean defense from Hayden Patrick Quinn. Fading away and still getting a paddle on it in the perfect placement too. Helping to grow the game internationally. Time in. 8-2-2. Finally, put away for Andre Dascu everything he had behind that one. 2-8-1, big hole to climb out of. 2-8-1. Tall task. Second serve. His third will not help. Just a few too many errors early from Andre in this one. 2-8-2. 8-2-1. Backhand poke. Oh, calls it out. Rob is called out. I think that's worth a challenge, yeah. The result of the rally is 9-2-2. That one might get called back. We'll see. The result of the rally is overturned. The ball was in. Loss of timeout. No timeouts remaining. Okay. That's huge. No timeouts remaining. Resume play at 8-2-2. It was in. Speaking of the Johnsons, they're taking the court right now over on Grandstand. Resume play. 8-2-2. 8-2-2 the scoreline with the overturn. Yeah. ATP smooth from Paris Tide. Well timed there. Took an extra second before she struck the ball. Textbook stuff. 2-8-1. Waits for it to drop on her paddle. Twerks it around. Second serve. Andre trying to impose a drive on the third. Anna Bright was on it. 2-8-2. A little high there. Side out. Wind didn't help Todd and Donescu's efforts that time. Anna Bright and Hayden Patrick went back to work. 8-2-1. That just seemed like so much indecision on that ball. 9-1. Oh, good thing Hayden didn't send his paddle to it. Wow. How about Anna Bright establishing dominance, hip check her buddy out of the way. This is my overhead. 10-2-1. Game point. Anna Bright imposing her will once again. 11-2, the finish here in game number one, game two. Just around the corner, but before we get that one started, we've got some special visitors at the desk. Roscoe Bellamy and Jared Paul will join Matt and Cam here momentarily. It's, you know, everything I want to be doing, but in the downtime, I like to help grow the sport, and I think this podcast is a great way to do it. Jared and I have been friends for a while, and when we started this podcast, I think we just wanted to try something new, try some high-production stuff inside pickleball, And, you know, I don't know. Where it's going to go now, but where it's taken us has been amazing, and we're just keeping along for the journey. I love it. Speaking of journey, Jared, you founded the kitchen years ago, gone through so many evolutions of what it is and what it's becoming. What's new in the kitchen? I hear about a kitchen newsletter that you wanted to talk about. The newsletter's been solid. Our main focus for this year has been affiliate sales, working with brands to help not only extend their reach and do brand building and storytelling, but... prove that we can help sell products but really the kitchen is all about the amateur player providing high-value content giving them something to look forward to off the court and yeah it's been an incredible last six years. Roscoe it's really cool because we see you guys play on tour we see the social media side of things just from players own point of view but to really get to sit down with them and talk about their story and who they are how important is that to really start building almost an off-court relationship with the fans and these players? I think it's a huge part of a lot of fan bases these days right? Anna Bright, for instance, when we did her podcast, I think people were really, really excited. We got so many requests because people know her on the court and people see little teasers on her Instagram. But to get to sit down with a person for, I mean, that was 90 minutes and learn about them, learn about their story, you just feel a lot more connected, and it makes it way more fun to watch them on the court. So we just try to do that with as many people as we can, and it's been a journey, like I said. So we're all here because we play pickleball. So I want to talk about Jared's game for a second. You do a lot of coaching content. I see it all over YouTube threads. Does he watch any of it? Because, I mean, has he gotten over a 3.8 yet? How's his game? So I actually want him to join my online community, the Pickleball Collective, where you can learn basically how to master the game. I think it would be perfect for him, but I might have to hook him up with a free subscription after this. It's a great idea. It's a great idea. There's a direct correlation how good my game is to how bad my business does, and so I've chosen the business path. I understand. That's fair, that's fair. Jared, I just want to know, last question here, who has been one of your favorites that's been on your podcast? Who are you most looking forward to having in the future? I mean, I would say Andre Agassi. The episode with him was pretty phenomenal. I mean, Steve's episode was great. It's not going to be the most viewed episode, but his story is super inspiring. It's very unique. Really, all of them. I mean, to be able to sit down and get to know the players better, the people I'm watching on TV all the time. And I know some of them off the court, but to dig into their background is, it's just different. And you actually get to feel like you know the person, who they are. It's been great. Yeah, absolutely. Well, thank you guys so much. Make sure you guys check it out. The Pickleballers, Jared Paul, Roscoe Bellamy. Thanks, guys. Thanks, guys. Let's get back to action here in mixed doubles. Mish. Yeah, Matt, thanks so much. It's a great podcast. They do a wonderful job. Speaking of wonderful jobs, Anna Bright and Hayden Patrick Quinn also doing a wonderful job here in this quarterfinal matchup that I was expecting to be quite closer than the scoreline reflects. Yeah, it's been balls like that. There's been some issues coming to the net on this side after the serve on the switch. Wind is definitely picked up in the last hour or so. Something to note. It's a nice off-speed ball behind Hayden. One for one. Oh, man. Take it, sir. Bright dodges one. Targeting another nose there is Andrei Dascu. One for two. Point. Todd tees off, knocks it down. 2-4-2. Side out. Just overreaching a little bit in this wind. 4-2-1. Great job. Second serve. Location for Todd. Second serve here for Bright and Patrick Quinn. 4-2-2. Side out. Efficient work. Empty trip for Bright and Patrick Quinn. We'll see what Todd and Dascu do with the opportunity. 2-4-1. Point. Into the post. Todd and Dascu with a chance to tie it. 3-4-1. Seconds to her. Counter-crush by Anna Bright. That backhand counter is so pretty to watch. It's ridiculous. 3-4-2. Stunning angle from Hayden Patrick Quinn. Dascu can't sort out the backhand dink on that sequence. He's got a lot of wind coming across behind Hayden on the cross-court, too. Harris finds it through the middle. How'd she set it up? A little more consistency, that's it. Just making more balls, honestly. They've been starting the patterns, but there's just been some errors on there. They need that dink rally. Just right there, that was so important that she told Andre to stay and not to switch. That unwind of the stack on the side right now is very difficult. 3-4-1. Second serve. Being off three has been a challenge. 3-4-2. Oh my gosh, that's unbelievably unfortunate for Andre and Paris. Paris had an unconventional lob in the middle of that point. Perhaps unintentional, but almost effective. 4-3-1. Still stuck on three. Point. And a break with the early out call just based on the angle Todd was giving and the way the wind is blowing. 5-3-1. Point. Timeout change. And 6-3-1. And 6-3 the advantage for Patrick Quinn and Bright, knocking on the door for a semifinal appearance. Very well could meet up again with the Johnsons. We'll see. 15 seconds. It's been an uphill battle this whole time. Just every time there's been kind of some momentum the way of Paris and Andre, there's been kind of an unfortunate error or mishap. Okay, we have a challenge to the out ball. The result of the rally is a point, 7-3-1. The result of the rally stands, the ball was out. Lost a challenge, loss of a timeout, no timeout remaining, one timeout remaining. We resume play at 7-3-1. Yeah, that's a hill to climb right now for these two. Point. Just back there, three points, and this one's in the back. 8-3-1, second curve. A little... Not committal on that redirect from Anna Bright there, but it worked out for Andre Desque. 8-3-2. What an angle. ATP secured for Hayden Patrick Quinn. The risk of moving him out wide is this. Not much Andre could have done better with that ball. Side out. Effortless defense, too, on their side. Missed that one, but two players there for one shot. 3-9-1. Good communication. That, for me, is so important. Second serve, 3-9-2. Wow. Take that. What a move from Hayden Patrick Quinn. Massive Ernie. Punch back. Another chance to go up match point here. 9-3-1. Oh, jeez. They've been just mistimed on so many of these counters today. 10-3-1. Point game match. Oh, man. Andre wears it. And Hayden Patrick Quinn and Anna Bright deserve it. They're into the semifinals. Is this a team that could be a threat to win gold this weekend? I mean, I think after that, that was a match I absolutely expected to be a whole lot closer, and Anna Bright and Hayden Patrick Quinn could do no wrong. We'll step aside for a moment. Anna Bright and Hayden Patrick Quinn will head to the desk for a winning interview on their way to the semifinals in back-to-back years. Welcome back. The number two team, Anna Bright, Hayden Patrick Quinn, taking down a very good team in Todd and Desku. 11-2, 11-3, match. Yeah, it started out close, but Bright and Patrick Quinn way too good in the end. Todd and Desku, that is a tough, tough team. Obviously two against six. But these two, they've beaten Ben and Anna Lee already. Can they do it here in Dallas? I know they'd like to. Hayden is quick as can be out there. Anna Bright looked so good ahead of Andre firing. That inside-in backhand all day, beating him a lot down the line. So unbelievable effort from those two. Yeah, I agree. I mean, on the other side, 2-3, I thought that one could potentially go 3 because they have won MLPs together. They play a lot on that side, but it's too much. It didn't feel like 2-3. To be fair, 11-2, 11-3 at that level, points can go either way. It can get a lot closer. The number two team in the world generally wins those big points, and they did today. Congratulations, guys. A lot of red out there. Yes, yes. Someone had to change. I'm going to change. I hate it. Someone asked me, they go, did they have to wear red all four of you, or was that coincidence? Oh, coincidence. I don't know. Anna texts me every morning at 7 a.m. the color we're wearing, so. I hear that. That's a lot from the girls telling the guys what to wear. You guys are looking sharp, though. Thank you. Hayden, I'm going to go to you. I mean, body back at the end there to close out this match. But you're on the other side of Andre. He covers a lot of court. I mean, you really have to watch how much he's coming over. Of course, you have to see behind him. But I just feel there's so much more confidence in your game on the mixed double side of things. It doesn't matter who you're up against. You can really change your positioning. You can really change up your speeds a lot. How much has that really helped you on the mixed double side? It's helped a ton. We were just talking about I've been working a lot on, like, defense and then trusting Anna more, honestly. I think we're playing better as a team. I'm not going too crazy, and I think it's helping a lot. But, yeah, I've just been working hard. You know, I want to be the number one mixed team, so got to put in the work out there and grind it out. Yeah, Anna, you looked very settled on the right side, as you do always, but getting in those cross-court dink rallies with Paris, then knowing when to pull the trigger and doing well with that backhand inside in to Andre, what were you looking for in that matchup in particular? Yeah, Paris is one of the tougher women, I would say, to dink cross-court with. So this morning, just getting some reps against that heavy role, I do think she got the better of me a few times for sure, but it's going to go both ways. And just looking for some sneaky offense and some opportunities to generate for us, to set up Hayden, to his point. I do think that kind of a development of our partnership is kind of a little bit more give and take and who's doing a little bit more in different situations. And I think that's really translating to some more success for us. Hayden, I know you always have your friends with you, your boys, your entourage. Your brother's here today, London, who I had never met before. First of all, he says he doesn't look like you. He took off his glasses. I thought I was seeing almost an identical kid there. He's handsome. He's a handsome guy. It's a handsome family. How cool is it to have your brother watching at one of the biggest tournaments in the world? It's amazing, yeah. I mean, for him to come and cheer me on, it's great because he gets fired up. He has, like, no, he's not classy. He just, like, cheers whenever. Like, they'll miss a return. He's like, let's go. He's going crazy. I'm like, okay, you got to relax. But it's great. It's great. I have my best friend Hayden here too, so it's cool to have that cheering squad with me, always supporting me. Maybe a little confusion there with your guys' names. Yeah, yeah. Hayden alluded to it, Anna. He said, you know, we want to be the number one in the world. What's that going to take as far as maybe some training or on the mental side of things for you guys to push through consistently to try and match that? Oh, I mean, Ben and Annalie are really, really incredible. I think we saw a level from Ben in Hong Kong that we are going to have to adjust to. Very different conditions here, though, in Dallas. You know, obviously, it's outdoors. It's a little bit of swirly wind. So that's going to induce a little bit more variability. But I think we're just, you know, I'm going to have to add a little bit more offense. Annalie has more offense than anyone on the women's side. And we're going to have to do some, figure out some things to kind of counter that higher level of offense from Ben that I think we're seeing as of late. So it's going to take a lot, honestly. But we've shown that we can beat them. But it's going to take some training and figuring some things out to get to a point where that's something that could happen 50% of the time or even more consistently, which is, of course, the goal. To ask a nerdy pickleball question, how is center court playing with the wind, with swirls compared to the outside? And obviously, from here on out, we don't need to deal with the outside courts. It's a little trippy for me. There's some vision stuff going on. I think because of the bleachers, there's some rays coming through. We'll get through in there. But yeah, the wind's just swirling because you have the big stadium, and then the paths of wind are coming through. I don't know. That's a good answer, I like it. That's good, right? I like it. No, I loved it. Are you guys going to be watching the next one? Next match up? Who's playing? No. I won't be. She's going to take a break. Tama. Yeah, yeah. I have a match. Tama time's up next. Tama time. Congratulations to you guys and good luck. Thank you guys. Love watching you guys play.