By the numbers: Select Medical Orange County Cup
DALLAS, TX - The PPA Tour's Select Medical Orange County Cup presented by FitVine Wines was a spectacular event from start to finish.
Nearly 12,000 spectators enjoyed the festivities on-site at Life Time Rancho San Clemente, while 926,000 fans watched across all channels and courts on PickleballTV (with numbers from Tennis Channel viewership on Championship Sunday still to be reported). There was also 380,000 hours of watch time on YouTube.
Headlines aplenty emerged from the action under the Southern California sun.
Dylan Frazier became the top-ranked men's doubles player in the world after claiming gold alongside JW Johnson with a victory over Hayden Patriquin and Pablo Tellez.
Anna Leigh Waters was unstoppable again, securing the all-time best 27th Triple Crown of her PPA Tour career, while Ben Johns reached the half-century mark in mixed doubles titles.
For his part, Chris Haworth won his first gold medal on the PPA Tour by defeating World No. 1 Federico Staksrud in three games.
It's no surprise that social media was buzzing during the tournament.
There were over 8.7 million impressions across the PPA Tour's various platforms, and over 1.2 million impressions across Pickleball.com platforms as well.
Total website views between PPATour.com and Pickleball.com reached seven million, so the excitement was clearly off the charts.
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