Two Carvana Championship Sunday matches have come and gone in Newport Beach, and Anna Leigh Waters, Ben Johns, and Hunter Johnson are the day’s early victors in mixed doubles and men’s singles, respectively.  

Waters/Johns kicked off the day’s action with an 11-4, 11-2, 12-10 victory over No. 10 seeds Tina Pisnik/Eric Oncins to secure their 60^th gold medal as a partnership.

Pisnik/Oncins came into the final on the heels of victories over No. 3 seeds Anna Bright/Hayden Patriquin and No. 2 seeds Jorja Johnson/JW Johnson in consecutive rounds, but the Waters/Johns ended that impressive run with a clean three-game sweep.

Johns spoke afterwards about the experience of facing a new opponent on Championship Sunday.

“It’s definitely a lot of the same teams in finals, so something fresh and new is great,” he said. “I’ve known Tina a long time, and she’s a phenomenal mixed doubles player, but also Eric just has been getting better and better…he’s obviously playing phenomenal, so congrats to both of them.”

This week has been a strong response for the top seeds after they were swept in the final of last month’s Mesa Cup by Bright/Patriquin, as Waters/Johns struck gold in Southern California without dropping a game through six matches.

“I really wanted this one,” Waters admitted. “Especially coming off the loss at the last tournament, it just makes the win even sweeter.”

In the men’s singles final, top seed Hunter Johnson defeated No. 2 seed Federico Staksrud by a 12-10, 11-9 score line to avenge his previous loss to the Argentinian a few weeks ago in the final of the Cape Coral Open.

Staksrud got up 6-1 in Game 2 and threatened to force a decider, but Johnson dialed in his backhand passing shots from the baseline and went on to end the contest on a 10-3 run to capture his second title of 2026.

The match wasn’t without its tense moments, however.

At 6-6 in the second game, Staksrud complained to head referee Drew DeHennis about Johnson’s extended grunts impacting his shots.

During the very next rally, Johnson let out his loudest grunt of the match as he rifled a backhand winner up the line.

“I felt like maybe [Staksrud] was trying to change the momentum a little bit, so I had to get it back in my favor,” Johnson said afterwards. “I wasn’t meaning to grunt before that—it’s just what you do in tennis and pickleball. I just did that to psych myself up a little bit, and luckily, I made the backhand pass.”

“Fed’s a great player,” he continued. “He always pushes you to the edge. He got me last time in Cape Coral, so I couldn’t be more blessed to take this title.”