Stewart and Munro sweep double-gold weekends at APP, PPA events

Katerina Stewart and Jack Munro turned the APP Vlasic Classic in Cincinnati into a two-person showcase, each leaving with double gold and reshaping the weekend’s momentum across the amateur pro pipeline. Stewart defended her women’s singles crown, Munro controlled both doubles finals he played, and Mohaned Alhouni matched that feat at the Boise PPA Challenger, giving the weekend three separate double-gold storylines.

Stewart’s strongest statement came in singles, where she beat Domenika Turkovic 11-6, 11-3 to retain her title. She carried that form into women’s doubles with Riley Bohnert, where the pair upset top seeds Megan Fudge and Sofia Sewing. That final turned in the second game, when Stewart and Bohnert erased an 8-4 deficit and closed on a seven-point run to seize gold.

Munro’s path was just as decisive. He and Richard Livornese Jr. handled the men’s doubles final 11-4, 11-3, never allowing the match to settle into a longer fight. In mixed doubles, Munro and Jill Braverman had to work much harder, trailing 7-2 in the deciding game before storming back to beat Sewing and Casey Diamond 11-9. That comeback gave Munro a second gold and one of the weekend’s sharpest pressure wins.

Cincinnati produced more than the headliners. Dusty Boyer won the first APP gold medal of his career in men’s singles, a breakthrough that should matter in a field where first titles often alter a player’s standing fast. Bobbi Oshiro also added to her medal haul with three bronze finishes, while Marcelle Jardim emerged as the senior pro Triple Crown winner, rounding out a busy event for players across divisions.

Boise added a different kind of weight. The 2026 Boise PPA Challenger ran June 12-14 at The Flying Pickle in Meridian, Idaho, drew 231 players, and again showed why the Challenger Series matters as a bridge between amateur competition and the pro game. Alhouni won double gold there with Bruno Faletto in men’s doubles and Lindsey Newman in mixed doubles, and the draw included at least one mixed-doubles main-draw match against Kelly Chen and Matt Burkhardt. In New Zealand, Zachary Grabovic and Andie Dikosavljevic claimed mixed doubles gold, another reminder that the weekend’s biggest swings were happening well beyond one city.

Taken together, the results showed a tour picture moving quickly. Stewart and Munro left Cincinnati with the kind of wins that harden reputations, Alhouni left Boise with the same momentum, and the points, medals, and upsets gave the next stretch of the calendar a clearer hierarchy.