The Fort, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, hosted the APP Tour Championships this previous weekend – wrapping up the 2025 APP Tour season.
Because the final occasion of the season, this one meant a bit extra, because it was additionally the final Main of the 12 months, with prize payouts value 1.5x the tour’s open stage occasions.
Let’s get into the motion.
Prime Storylines
Will Howells Earned Two Gold Medals – One in Combined and One in Males’s Doubles
Howells left the 2025 APP Tour season with a bang. He received combined doubles gold with Bobbi Oshiro and males’s doubles with Jack Munro.
In combined doubles, Oshiro and Howells dominated the competitors, solely dropping one sport of their 5 matches. That loss got here within the semis in opposition to Ronan Camron and Kat Stewart, who received sport one 13-11. From there, Howells and Oshiro received video games two and three, 11-4, 11-7.
Within the finals, Oshiro and Howells took on Sofia Stitching and Casey Diamond, who had upset Megan Fudge and Jack Munro within the semis. They beat Fudge and Munro 11-1, 11-6.
Nevertheless, Howells and Oshiro had been an excessive amount of on Sunday, beating Diamond and Stitching 11-6, 11-8 within the finals.
In males’s it was extra of the identical, with Howells and Munro solely dropping one sport of their 5 matches. That sport was within the quarterfinals, when Brandon Fritze and Jordan Chrysostom beat Howells and Munro 11-5 within the first sport. Then Howells and Munro went on a 22-8 run, profitable the quarters in three.
Within the finals, Howells and Munro took on Tanner Tomassi and Richard Livornese Jr., beating them 11-6, 11-7. This marked the eighth gold medal for the duo on the APP Tour in 2025, tying them for the only season document.
“It’s been an absolute blast taking part in with Jack this 12 months,” Howells stated. “We’ve got nice chemistry, we’re good buddies off the courtroom, so it actually means quite a bit to us.”
Sofia Stitching and Shelby Bates Earned their Second Gold Collectively
For the second time in 2025, Bates and Stitching earned gold in ladies’s doubles. They did so by beating Christine Maddox and Simone Jardim within the semis, 7-11, 11-2, 11-5.
Within the finals, they confronted off in opposition to the very best duo in ladies’s doubles all 12 months, Megan Fudge and Jill Braverman. This was a tough fought match on each side, with momentum shifting many occasions.
Stitching and Bates received 11-5, after which misplaced sport two 8-11. In sport three, they had been down 2-5, and known as timeout, hoping to cease momentum and never go into the facet swap down 6-2. That’s precisely what they did after the timeout. Bates and Stitching rattled off 9 unanswered factors, profitable sport three 11-5.
Seone Mendez and Ryler DeHeart Every Earned Their First Gold Medals in Singles
Seone Mendez has made a reputation for herself within the latter a part of 2025, and she or he completed the 12 months off with an exclamation. Within the Spherical of 16 Mendez upset Stitching, the #1 seed, 15-11 within the third. Within the finals, she beat Kat Stewart, 15-10, 16-14, incomes her first gold on the APP Tour on Saturday.
In males’s singles, Rtler DeHeart received his first ever singles title on the APP Tour on the age of 41. DeHeart beat Dusty Boyer in a grinding singles match, 16-14, 16-14.
Ryler DeHeart with a gold medal interview for the ages.
Full Outcomes
Ladies’s Singles
🥇 Seone Mednez
🥈 Kat Stewart
🥉 Bobbi Oshiro
Males’s Singles
🥇 Ryler DeHeart
🥈 Dusty Boyer
🥉 Ronan Camron
Combined Doubles
🥇 Bobbi Oshiro/Will Howells
🥈 Sofia Stitching/Casey Diamond
🥉 Jack Munro/Megan Fudge
Ladies’s Doubles
🥇 Shelby Bates/Sofia Stitching
🥈 Megan Fudge/Jill Braverman
🥉 Bobbi Oshiro/Daria Walzcak
Males’s Doubles
🥇 Jack Munro/Will Howells
🥈 Tanner Tomassi/Richard Livornese Jr.
🥉 Mark Dancuart/Casey Diamond
