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Federico Staksrud kept following his return to the net. Jack Sock kept passing him on the next ball.

21 passing third shots: 11 outright winners, 14 rallies won. Here are all 11.

Full recap: https://t.co/40AOVE2ndh

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Where the points come from.

CJ Klinger: 88% from men's doubles. Gabriel Tardio: 79%.
Christopher Haworth is No. 16 almost entirely on singles: 67% of his points.
Kaitlyn Christian is the only top-10 woman with more from singles (39%) than doubles (37%).

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Same position, opposite result. When Sock was alone at the net, he won 2 of 10 in Game 1 and 13 of 15 after.

Staksrud's passing shots won the point outright 3 of 5 times in Game 1, and 2 of 19 after.

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Jack Sock lost Game 1 to Federico Staksrud 11-3 at Worlds, then won 11-6, 11-8.

We charted every shot. Over the match they were dead even on serve: 25 of 42 rallies each. It turned at the net, and on one shot.

Full recap with video and shot maps:

https://t.co/isi4068XDN

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Sock's answer was the passing third: 21 of them, 19 kept in play, 14 rallies won. 11 won the point on that ball.

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Staksrud came in 38 times, more than Sock. When he followed his return in, he won 7 of 22 (32%). When he came in behind his own third shot or later, he won 14 of 16 (88%).

Rushing in behind the return gave Sock a full swing at the pass.

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World rankings after Worlds. A result is only worth what it replaces: Anna Leigh Waters earned 3,000 and dropped 3,000, net zero. Tama S. had the biggest net gain (+1,638). Alshon and JW Johnson move up one; Patriquin and Staksrud slide after big drops.
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Anna Leigh Waters leads women's singles by 300 points, and it isn't that close.
She's 11 for 11 in singles events, and Kate Fahey was runner-up to her in 9 of them. The race looks tight because Fahey has a full 14 results counting and Waters has only 11.
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@TimWestine Just look at the first two holes…

Say Rudd makes that putt and if Marissa hits the green they probably make 4 at worst.

Thats three strokes saved.

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Tardio and Ben Johns are partners, so how is Tardio No. 1 in men's doubles?
Two titles Johns wasn't part of: the Australia Cup with Hayden Patriquin and the Kuala Lumpur Cup with Noe Khlif.
Johns is still No. 1 overall on mixed, where his results are worth 4,865 more ranking points.

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Anna Leigh Waters has more World Ranking points than any man: 22,160 to Ben Johns's 18,210.
Not apples to apples. Men and women play separate draws, so points only measure you against your own field. That makes them a fair way to ask how far each No. 1 sits above everyone else.
Over No. 2, it's even: Johns leads Tardio by 4,406, and Waters leads Bright by 4,568. Past that, the women's field drops off fast. Over No. 10, Waters has 4.28x Kaitlyn Christian. Johns has 3.27x CJ Klinger.

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Allyce Jones lost 600 doubles points at Worlds without playing a doubles match. Callie Smith got hurt in mixed and they withdrew, so last year's quarterfinal came off with nothing to replace it. She still played mixed and singles (+75). No. 35 to No. 40.

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Strength of event, Worlds: 90.2 of 100, the No. 2 field of 2026. Atlanta leads at 94.3.

Every top-10 man and woman is in the doubles draws. The gap is the women's side: eight of the top 50 are not in Dallas, five of whom played Atlanta.

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Who owns each spot on the court?

We chart every shot by where the ball met the paddle and what it did to the rally. From 68 PPA women's doubles games: the best value-per-shot player from every zone. Then the same for dinks, speed-ups and third shots.

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@connorpardoe_pb I’ll be there. Let’s meet and discuss advanced analytics!

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Same gold, same 1,000 points.

Las Vegas Open: Daescu/Alshon beat Patriquin/Staksrud and Johns/Tardio.
Kuala Lumpur Cup: Tardio/Khlif never faced a team above 7,250 points.

Every team each champion beat, in all three draws. @ppatour

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A US 1000 draw in 2026 has been, on median, 78% as strong as a US 2000 draw. Its gold pays half the points.

The Australia Cup paid the same 1,500 as the US Cups with draws less than half as deep.

Field strength vs points on offer, every 2026 doubles and mixed draw. @ppatour

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Scale gold to the field and a US 1000 title is worth about 1,570 points. It pays 1,000.

Challengers pay about twice what their fields are worth. Asia 500s, about three times. PPA Australia, Canada and Europe 125/250s, about six.

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A US 1000 draw in 2026 has been, on median, 78% as strong as a US 2000 draw. Its gold pays half the points.

The Australia Cup paid the same 1,500 as the US Cups with draws less than half as deep.

Field strength vs points on offer, every 2026 doubles and mixed draw. @ppatour

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A US 1000 draw in 2026 has been, on median, 78% as strong as a US 2000 draw. Its gold pays half the points.

The Australia Cup paid the same 1,500 as the US Cups with draws less than half as deep.

Field strength vs points on offer, every 2026 doubles and mixed draw. @ppatour