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Hong Kong Slam 2026 champions: who won each of the five titles

Hong Kong Slam 2026 champions: who won each of the five titles

By Ian NgFounder, Base Pickleball & Padel · ThePickleBaseMalaysia4 min read

The five Hong Kong Slam 2026 champions and their final scores: Dikosavljevic, Hunter Johnson, Staksrud and Patriquin, and Waters in two events.


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The Hang Seng Bank Hong Kong Slam 2026, the first PPA Asia Slam, finished at Kai Tak Arena on Sunday with five finals. Andie Dikosavljevic won the Women's Singles and Hunter Johnson the Men's Singles. Anna Leigh Waters won two titles, the Women's Doubles with Anna Bright and the Mixed with Ben Johns, and Federico Staksrud and Hayden Patriquin won the Men's Doubles.

Four of the five champions won every game they played in Hong Kong. Hunter Johnson was the exception, and he lost three. Dikosavljevic, the ninth seed, was the only champion from outside the top three seeds.

Bright and Waters win the Women's Doubles

Anna Bright and Anna Leigh Waters, the top seeds, beat Tyra Hurricane Black and Jorja Johnson, the second seeds, 11-6, 11-4 in the first final of the day.

Women's DoublesFinal
1
2
USUS
ANNA BRIGHTANNA LEIGH WATERS
✓
11
11
USUS
TYRA HURRICANE BLACKJORJA JOHNSON
6
4
Completed

They started in the round of 16 and won all eight of their games, two of them 11-0: against Jamie Haas and Rika Fujiwara on Thursday and against Sofia Sewing and Catherine Parenteau in the semifinals. They also won the Women's Doubles together at the MB Hanoi Cup in April.

Anna Bright and Anna Leigh Waters hold up their Women's Doubles trophies at the medal ceremony on Sunday.
Anna Bright and Anna Leigh Waters hold up their Women's Doubles trophies at the medal ceremony on Sunday.

Dikosavljevic wins the Women's Singles as the ninth seed

Andie Dikosavljevic beat Judit Castillo, the fourth seed, 11-1, 11-5. She won all 12 games she played across six matches and never conceded more than eight points in a game.

Women's SinglesFinal
1
2
AUANDIE DIKOSAVLJEVIC✓
11
11
ESJUDIT CASTILLO
1
5
Completed

On the way she beat the second seed, Chao Yi Wang, 11-8, 11-6 in the quarterfinals and Sahra Dennehy, the fifth seed, 11-1, 11-3 in the semifinals. It is her second Women's Singles title on the PPA Tour Asia this season, after the MB Ho Chi Minh City Open in August.

Andie Dikosavljevic lifts the Women's Singles trophy at the medal ceremony on Sunday.
Andie Dikosavljevic lifts the Women's Singles trophy at the medal ceremony on Sunday.

Staksrud and Patriquin beat the top seeds in the Men's Doubles

Federico Staksrud and Hayden Patriquin, the second seeds, beat Ben Johns and Gabriel Tardio 11-6, 11-8. That reversed the MB Hanoi Cup final in April, which Ben Johns and Tardio won 11-0, 7-11, 11-6.

Men's DoublesFinal
1
2
ARUS
FEDERICO STAKSRUDHAYDEN PATRIQUIN
✓
11
11
USBO
BEN JOHNSGABRIEL TARDIO
6
8
Completed

Staksrud and Patriquin won all ten of their games in Hong Kong. The closest was 11-9, against Connor Garnett and Dylan Frazier in the semifinals.

Federico Staksrud and Hayden Patriquin hold up their Men's Doubles trophies at the medal ceremony on Sunday.
Federico Staksrud and Hayden Patriquin hold up their Men's Doubles trophies at the medal ceremony on Sunday.

Hunter Johnson wins the Men's Singles in three games

Hunter Johnson, the third seed, beat Tama Shimabukuro, the fourth seed, 11-4, 6-11, 11-7. He had come from a game down twice during the week: against William Hsieh in his first match, 9-11, 11-4, 11-9, and against Staksrud, the second seed, in the semifinals, 3-11, 11-8, 11-5.

Men's SinglesFinal
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2
3
USHUNTER JOHNSON✓
11
6
11
USTAMA SHIMABUKURO
4
11
7
Completed

Shimabukuro, 15, leaves with the silver dragon head. The tour's medal set is a Cup medal for the body, an Open medal for the tail and a head given out only in Hong Kong, and he already had Men's Singles golds from the Macao Open and the Leapmotor Kuala Lumpur Cup.

Hunter Johnson raises the Men's Singles trophy and his paddle at the medal ceremony on Sunday.
Hunter Johnson raises the Men's Singles trophy and his paddle at the medal ceremony on Sunday.

Ben Johns and Waters win the Mixed without losing a game

Ben Johns and Anna Leigh Waters, the top seeds, closed the tournament with an 11-4, 11-3 win over Anna Bright and Hayden Patriquin, the second seeds. They gave up 22 points in five matches, and their quarterfinal and semifinal finished 11-1, 11-0 and 11-0, 11-1.

Mixed DoublesFinal
1
2
USUS
BEN JOHNSANNA LEIGH WATERS
✓
11
11
USUS
ANNA BRIGHTHAYDEN PATRIQUIN
4
3
Completed

All four Mixed finalists had already played a final that day. Waters and Bright had won the Women's Doubles together, and Patriquin had beaten Ben Johns in the Men's Doubles.

Anna Leigh Waters and Ben Johns hold up their Mixed Doubles trophies at the medal ceremony on Sunday.
Anna Leigh Waters and Ben Johns hold up their Mixed Doubles trophies at the medal ceremony on Sunday.

Prize money and points

The Hong Kong Slam carried up to US$1.1 million in pro prize money. The table shows the amounts for pros on a Gold contract, in US dollars, with World Pickleball Ranking points.

Singles

Doubles

Mixed

Points

Gold

14,000

56,000

46,000

1500

Silver

7,500

30,000

26,000

1200

Semifinal

3,800

15,000

12,600

750

Quarterfinal

1,900

7,600

6,400

300

More from the Hong Kong Slam

Results verified against the official bracket on pickleballtournaments.com and the PPA Tour Asia tournament page. Photographs: PPA Tour Asia.

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Ian Ng

Founder, Base Pickleball & Padel · ThePickleBase

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Ian Ng founded Base Pickleball and Padel, a courts venue in Kuala Lumpur, and its sister brand ThePickleBase.com, which covers pickleball across Asia. He came to the sport as a player and built Base because he could not find a good place to play. He reports from PPA Tour Asia stops and the other tournaments on the regional calendar, and interviews the pros and the people building the game. Away from the tournaments he writes about where to play and about the business of pickleball in Asia.