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Luc Pham upsets top seed Haworth in Las Vegas
The No. 14 seed advances to the men's singles quarter-finals.
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Luc Pham beat top seed Chris Haworth 4–11, 11–7, 11–8 in the men's singles round of 16 at the 2026 Rate Las Vegas Open. Pickleball.com reported the result on the evening of 1 October Eastern Time, already the next day in Hong Kong. The victory secured a quarterfinal place, not a subsequent title.
Report details
The No. 14 seed recovered after losing the opening game. The score establishes the sequence of the turnaround and a closer decider. The report describes baseline accuracy and touch at the net, but that should not be expanded into unsupported point-by-point tactical claims.
Pham had previously won singles silver at PPA Asia's Ho Chi Minh City Open in August. That provides background from a separate competition; it should not be merged with this result into an invented title record.
The report named No. 8 seed John Lucian Goins as his next opponent. That was the announced quarterfinal pairing, rather than its outcome. Haworth's top-seed position makes this an upset, but rankings and individual match results represent different information.
Context and viewing analysis
OPEN COURT analysis: return depth, net decisions and risk selection are useful things to examine in a recovery from one game down. Scores prove the turnaround, not a particular tactical intervention or an unreported psychological explanation.
This report ends with the completed round of 16 and scheduled quarterfinal opponent. Any later outcome needs a separately verified, dated update. Hong Kong viewers should distinguish venue dates, the report's Eastern Time timestamp and local time when following U.S. events.
