The Rate Las Vegas Open Tournament Preview

This is the second Open of the 2026-27 PPA Tour season, meaning 1,000 PPA points are available to the winner in each division.

Unlike last week's Arizona Open, where several top players skipped, the Las Vegas field is much closer to full strength. Anna Bright, Hayden Patriquin and Gabe Tardio are all back, which means several of the Tour's most established partnerships return as well.

Here are the biggest storylines to watch, followed by a breakdown of all five pro brackets.

Anna Leigh Waters isn't playing singles this week, but she enters Las Vegas just two titles away from 200 career PPA Tour titles.

That makes the path pretty simple: win women's doubles with Anna Bright and mixed doubles with Ben Johns, and Waters leaves Las Vegas at 200.

Those are also two partnerships with plenty of history at this venue. Waters and Johns have won mixed doubles in Las Vegas four straight years, while Waters and Bright are the defending women's doubles champions.

Three major names missing from Mesa return this week.

Bright is back alongside Waters in women's doubles and Patriquin in mixed doubles. Tardio reunites with Johns in men's doubles and partners Tyra Black in mixed.

That immediately makes the doubles fields considerably stronger than they were in Arizona.

With Waters not playing singles, somebody else is guaranteed to leave Las Vegas with the title.

Kate Fahey is the No. 1 seed, followed by Kaitlyn Christian, Lea Jansen and Zoey Wang. Genie Bouchard, last year's runner-up, is also back as the No. 7 seed - but she hasn’t played on the PPA Tour in nearly five months. Will she be rusty?

Anytime Waters sits out singles, the opportunity for the rest of the field becomes dramatically bigger.

Last week's Arizona Open gave several lower-seeded players their biggest PPA results.

Jalina Ingram made noise in women's singles. Kiora Kunimoto and Elliott Schupp broke through in mixed doubles. Nico Acevedo and Yuta Funemizu reached the men's doubles final as the No. 15 seed before losing a wild championship match to Christian Alshon and Andrei Daescu.

Kunimoto and Schupp are back together this week. Acevedo is teaming up with Jaume Martinez Vich.

Now we get to see whether those Mesa runs were one-week surprises or the beginning of something bigger.

Christian Alshon and Andrei Daescu arrive in Las Vegas fresh off their men's doubles title in Mesa.

They also have some unfinished business at Darling Tennis Center.

Last year's Las Vegas final against Ben Johns and Gabe Tardio lasted two hours and 28 minutes, with Johns and Tardio eventually winning 12-10 in Game 5.

Johns/Tardio are the No. 1 seed this week.

A rematch would be a pretty good way to close out the weekend.

The first couple days could bring some thunderstorms, but the bigger story will likely be the heat. Temperatures are expected to climb into the mid-90s later in the week before approaching or exceeding 100 degrees over the weekend. Apparently leaving Mesa does not mean leaving the desert heat behind.

The PPA Tour's broadcast schedule begins Thursday with the Round of 16.

Semifinalists: (1) Kate Fahey, (8) Isabella Dunlap, (23) Sofia Sewing, (3) Lea Jansen

Champion: Kate Fahey defeats Sofia Sewing in the finals

Semifinalists: (1) Chris Haworth, (4) Christian Alshon, (2) Federico Staksrud, (3) Hunter Johnson

Champion: Chris Haworth over Federico Staksrud in a rematch of the Arizona Open

Semifinalists: (1) Waters/Johns, (4) Black/Tardio, (7) Fahey/Staksrud, (3) Pisnik/AlshonChampion: ALW and Ben make it five in a row in Vegas over Fahey and Staksrud

Semifinalists: (1) Waters/Bright, (4) Wei/Dizon, (5) Sewing/Pisnik, (3) Schneemann/Fahey

Champion: The Annas bear Sewing and Pisnik in the finals

Semifinalists: (1) Johns/Tardio, (4) Oncins/Clinger, (2) Patriquin/Staksrud, (3) Alshon/Daescu

Champion: Ben and Gabe defeat Hayden and Fed in the finals