The longest rally in any PPA Tour final since the start of 2022 happened at the Fasenra Sacramento Open, in the Men\u2019s Doubles final. Let\u2019s take a deep dive into a breathtaking two-minute and one-second rally!<\/p>\n
Game Three. After splitting the first two games, Ben Johns and Gabe Tardio led JW Johnson and CJ Klinger 5-4-2. The rally started with an ordinary five-shot sequence: Tardio serve, Johnson return, Johns third-shot drive, Klinger volley, Johns fifth-shot drop into the kitchen. Then, 34 dinks, an eight-shot firefight, 67 dinks, and another eight-shot firefight. Yes, 101 dinks in one rally.<\/p>\n
After the first five shots, there were 30 dinks before Johnson became involved with a dink of his own. After three more dinks, Klinger started the first firefight, which ended with Tardio resetting a Johnson smash back into the kitchen.<\/p>\n
\u201cWow, wow, wow,\u201d Dave Fleming said on the broadcast.<\/p>\n
A 67-dink rally ensued, until Johns initiated a firefight, which ended with a Klinger volley sailing long.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes please\u2026 that was sensational!\u201d Fleming said.<\/p>\n
Here are some stats:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shots: Klinger 48, Johns 33, Tardio 28, Johnson 13.<\/p>\n
Dinks: Klinger 42, Johns 27, Tardio 23, Johnson 9.<\/p>\n
Klinger hit 78% of his team\u2019s shots in the rally. It was more balanced on the other side of the net, with Johns hitting 54% of his team\u2019s shots.<\/p>\n
Johns and Tardio won the point, the game, and the match\u2026 a match that included this epic rally.<\/p>\n
By the way, this rally was like a tsunami. The six rallies before it and the six rallies after it were all seven shots or less!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The longest rally in any PPA Tour final since the start of 2022 happened at the Fasenra Sacramento…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-280915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}