Watch the pickleball pros in action at Sacramento’s Life Time Arden tournament
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- Eugenie Bouchard reached her first PPA medal match but lost to Kate Fahey in finals.
- Federico Staksrud won men's singles using wooden paddles to control match tempo.
- Jorja and JW Johnson captured their third mixed doubles gold of the 2025 season.
Sacramento fans watched the pros play pickleball this weekend at Life Time Arden.
The women’s singles final drew extra attention as former Wimbledon tennis finalist Eugenie “Genie” Bouchard went on an impressive run at the Carvana PPA Tour event.
Competing in her first PPA Tour medal match, Bouchard faced world No. 2 Kate Fahey in the final. Fahey proved too steady, capturing the gold.
The men’s singles final saw world No. 2 Federico Staksrud defeat Gabe Joseph.
The pros battled for gold using traditional wooden paddles. Straksrud said it favored his foundational style.
“There’s a little more cat-and-mouse, which I feel comfortable with because that’s kind of what I did at the beginning of my career,” Staksrud said in a news release. “Now with the paddle technology and everything getting faster, it just gets tougher and tougher to do that, but I was able to find that in my game today.”
This story was originally published September 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM.
