The last time Ben and Collin Johns faced off against Federico Staksrud and Matt Wright, they fell by a 3-11, 5-11 score line in the semifinals of the Atlanta Open back in May.

They had to wait five months for a shot at revenge, but they certainly made it count when the opportunity arose in Las Vegas.

The top seeds put on a clinical display to take an 11-4, 11-0 victory over the No. 3 seeds.

For B. Johns, everything just felt right on the court.

"The ball and conditions felt really good,” he mentioned. “The drives felt low and hard, and then the follow-up drops just felt real crisp. It was definitely hot earlier in the day, but now it’s kind of gotten to that perfect intermediate zone.”

Despite the lopsided score line, the encounter had one of the strangest endings to a match that we’ve seen in pro pickleball.

After getting back on serve at 0-10 in the second game, Staksrud received a technical warning for unsportsmanlike conduct for using profanity on court.

One point later, Wright received a technical warning for something that the referee heard him say to Staksrud. Two technical warnings on the same team results in a loss of a point, but because Staksrud and Wright were at 0, a point was instead awarded to the Johns bros.

That action, of course, ended the match. It also prompted Wright to have a tense interaction with Head PPA Referee Don Stanley.

Unfortunately for them, the Johns bros know how it feels to be handed a point deduction from repeated technical warnings; it happened to them in last week’s final in Virginia Beach as a result of not clearly signaling when calling timeouts.

Even though the penalty sealed the deal on Saturday, C. Johns doesn’t think it made a difference in the match’s outcome.

“I don’t know if it was the right call or not, but we ended up winning on that, and I feel like we would have finished it regardless,” he said.

On Sunday, the top seeds will face the winner of the second semifinal pitting No. 2 seeds JW Johnson and Dylan Frazier against No. 8 seeds Andrei Daescu and James Ignatowich.