Anderson and Chacon Break Through. Taylor Beats Trevor in the Final the Season Waited For.
The Progressive AVP Laguna Open crowned two champions who never lost a match all weekend, and delivered the one final 2026 had promised and never produced.
Maddie Anderson and Alaina Chacon won the women’s title from the #4 seed, beating the world #3 in Sunday’s final. And on the men’s side, the Crabb brothers finally met with a trophy on the line. Taylor won.
The Brothers, Finally
All year the bracket math kept teasing it. At Manhattan Beach, Taylor and Trevor were seeded first and second and never met. In Chicago they were one round apart and never met. At Laguna, both held serve all weekend, and Sunday at 3pm on stadium court, the first Crabb versus Crabb final of the AVP season arrived.
Taylor Crabb and Andy Benesh won it 21-15, 21-19, and Taylor played the match of the weekend to take it. He put down 22 kills on 38 attacks, hitting .421, dug 15 balls, and served 4 aces. Benesh added 8 kills on .438 with his usual presence at the net.
Across the net, the containment ran in the family. Trevor Crabb, who hit .750 in the Chicago final two weeks ago, was held to .304. Chase Budinger played a strong final, hitting .429 with 4 blocks, and it was not enough.
Taylor and Benesh won Laguna the way they won Manhattan Beach: without losing a match. Two AVP titles this year, both without dropping a single one. And the family scoreboard has a new line. In the first all-Crabb final of the AVP season, the younger brother took it in straight sets.
Anderson and Chacon’s Answer
Maddie Anderson and Alaina Chacon missed the Chicago playoffs by a single tiebreaker. Since then they have done nothing but climb: tied for third at Manhattan Beach, and now champions at Laguna, five wins in five matches, with the last one coming against the highest internationally ranked team on the sand.
The final was a 21-19, 21-15 win over Victoria and Thâmela of Brazil, the world #3 and the Huntington Beach champions. Anderson hit .500 with zero errors on 24 attacks, added 2 blocks and 2 aces, and never gave the Brazilians a run of free points. Chacon dug 15 balls in two sets, above even the rate that led the League in digs this season. Victoria was excellent in defeat, 19 kills on .472, but Laguna belonged to the #4 seed.
The path was as clean as the final. Anderson and Chacon beat Molly Shaw and Devanne Sours twice, once in the winners bracket and again in Sunday’s semifinal, and took out Chloe Loreen and Corinne Quiggle in between. Nobody took a set from them until the last day, and nobody took a match from them at all.
The Bracket Underneath
The women’s draw cracked open Saturday morning. Loreen and Quiggle, the #9 seed, beat top-seeded Kelly Cheng and Megan Kraft 21-19, 21-15 in the second round, and Quiggle’s line was the loudest of the weekend outside the finals: 16 kills and 17 digs in two sets. Cheng hit .556 with 6 total blocks in the loss and it still was not enough. Cheng and Kraft’s weekend ended in seventh, eliminated Sunday morning by Shaw and Sours.
Victoria and Thâmela nearly turned their own stumble into a title. Upset in three sets by Kylie DeBerg and Hailey Harward Zacca in the second round, the Brazilians won four straight elimination matches, including a semifinal over #2 Savvy Cory and Devon Newberry, to reach the final through the long side of the draw.
The men’s contenders bracket produced two runs of its own. Evan Cory and Troy Field, upset in round one by England’s Juan and Joaquin Bello, won four straight to reach the semifinals before Taylor and Benesh ended it. Cody Caldwell and Chaim Schalk won three straight to reach the other semifinal, where they lost to Budinger and Trevor Crabb for the second time in two days. And qualifiers Brewster and Ierna announced themselves Saturday morning by knocking off #5 Miles Evans and Alex Ranghieri in the opening round.
The Champions’ Case
Anderson and Chacon leave Laguna with the strongest closing stretch in the women’s game: a tiebreaker miss turned into a third-place finish turned into a title, in the span of six weeks. Taylor Crabb and Andy Benesh leave with two AVP titles won on identical terms, zero matches lost at either, and the head-to-head answer a family full of finals had been waiting on.