kat Stewart took home two golds in Cincinnati.
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The Association of Pickleball Players (APP) was back in action last weekend, traveling to the awesome Sawyer Point facility along the banks of the Ohio River to host the 2026 APP Vlasic Classic Cincinnati event.
Click here for the PickleballDen.com home page for the event, where you can get tournament details, draw sheets, and results.
Here’s a quick recap of notable news items of import to the APP tour or this event:
With that said, let’s recap the action.
Fifty-six (56) Pros poured into the Men’s singles draw in Cincinnati, and there were upsets galore. The biggest run was made by French man Emilien Burnel, a recent D1 tennis grad who now serves as a Grad assistant coach to the St. Louis University tennis team. As a No. 29 seed he won his opener, then cruised past No. 4 seed Kawka in two. From there he beat APP tour regular James Broker before falling in the quarters to APP veteran Andre Millet.
The top two seeds stayed above the fray though and met in the final, with No. 2 Dusty Boyer finally capturing his first APP Singles gold, topping No. 1 Ronan Camron in the final 5,4.
Special shout-out to No. 14 Drake Palm, who’s been cleaning up recently on the APP next tour; he made the bronze medal match before falling.
Gold: Dusty Boyer. Silver: Ronan Camron. Bronze: Andre Millet.
The women’s singles draw was chalk into the semis, with the tour’s top four players all advancing as expected. There. No. 1 Sofia Sewing, taking time off her Palm Beach Royals MLP duty, withdrew, giving No. 4 Domenika Turkovic a free ride into the finals. Unfortunately, Turkovic couldn’t take advantage of the extra rest and fell in the gold medal match to No. 2 Kat Stewart 6,4. It is Stewart’s 4th APP gold medal in singles.
Gold: Kat Stewart. Silver: Domenika Turkovic. Bronze: Bobbi Oshiro.
Jack Munro (L) and Jill Braverman (R) had a great APP debut together.
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We had an interesting shake up of regular Mixed partners on tour, which gave us some interesting medal results. After playing together for more than 2 years, Megan Fudge & Jack Munro have parted ways. Fudge is now playing with Richard Livornese, while Sofia Sewing has settled in with Casey Diamond. Munro paired up this week with Jill Braverman for the first time in years (they had one PPA result together in June 2024 previously). The pairing paid off; together as the No. 3 seed they cruised into the finals and won, giving Munro a double for the weekend and Braverman her first Mixed gold since Jan 2025. They beat the top seeds Sofia Sewing & Casey Diamond in the final.
Gold: Munro/Braverman. Silver: Sewing/Livornese. Bronze: Oshiro/DeHeart.
Top seeds Jack Munro & Richard Livornese held serve throughout the week, and took the gold medal with a 4,3 win over upstarts Drake Palm and Ronan Camron, making it a solid weekend for both the APP Next players. Palm & Camron together won both doubles golds on the APP next tour as recently as last December, and now are pushing to the top of the APP main tour.
Special recognition to Andre Millet / Ryan Torresin, who upset the No. 2 seeds Diamond & Schenk in the round of 16.
Gold: Munro/Livornese. Silver: Palm/Camron. Bronze: Lane/Slutsky
Kat Steward made it a double gold for the weekend, teaming with another successful APP Next player in Riley Bohnert to capture the gold medal. They upset the top seeds Fudge & Sewing in the final 3,8. In the bronze match we got a rare medal for Susannah Barr, one of the most decorated players in APP tour history, who won the 3rd place match with partner Oshiro.
In doing so, Steward and Bohnert were able to complete a rare feat: in the same event they beat the No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 seeds. First they topped No. 2 Schmidt & Braverman in the quarters, then No. 3 Maddox & Bates in the semis, and then the top seeds in the final.
Gold: Stewart/Bohnert. Silver: Fudge/Sewing. Bronze: Barr/Oshiro
Marcello Jardim had himself a weekend, winning the Champions Pro triple crown.
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This gave Jardim the Triple Crown for the weekend; the first on the APP senior tour since last November, and Jardim’s first triple since Dallas in October 2024.
The Pro Pickleball Medal Tracker spreadsheets have now been updated with these results. Click here for the Pro-only Medal Tracker, and click here for the Senior Pro Medal Tracker. These spreadsheets hold Medal winners for every pro event going back to the beginnings of the tours.
Next up on the Pickleball Calendar? According to my Master Pickleball Schedule, the APP’s Next tour heads to Grapevine, Texas next weekend, while the main tour heads overseas for much of the next two months. There’s a D-Joy collab event June 21st weekend in Vietnam, then the Kinto Nagoya City Open the second weekend of July, then the week after that APP Singapore, and the week after that the 2026 Leapmotor APP Penang Open in Malaysia. That’s three straight weekends abroad of events stacked up for the APP and Asia-based pros. The next time the APP plays domestically is the first week of August in Chicago.
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