Federico Staksrud secured his first title since January’s PPA Masters with an 11-8, 12-10 victory over No. 8 seed Gabe Joseph in the first singles match on Humana Championship Court.

Joseph won their previous meeting in a three-game thriller last month in Bristol, but Staksrud overcame 4-7 deficits in both games to earn some revenge in Northern California.

The Argentine gave some insight into how singles changes using wooden paddles and explained how he used those changes to his advantage.

“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,” he said after the match. “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.”

In the bronze medal match, No. 13 seed Chris Haworth defeated No. 3 seed Connor Garnett by an 11-4, 11-13, 11-9 score line.