The APP Tour AARP Open Event Preview

The APP Tour is again in motion solely days after concluding the second annual APP Girls’s Open introduced by The James.

The Tour is again at its residence, The Fort, for the third time this yr. Situated in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, The Fort has shortly grow to be a favourite cease on the APP Tour, with its newly constructed courts, together with a featured Championship Courtroom with bowl type seating particularly for pickleball.

That is the second to final tour cease earlier than the APP Tour Championships in December, so gamers want to accumulate factors heading into the Championships.

Remaining 2025 APP Tour Schedule

• October 9-12 – AARP Open (at The Fort)
• November 5-9 – APP Mesa Open
• December 10-14 – APP Tour Championships (Main)

Let’s get into the motion.

The best way to Watch the AARP Open

Thursday, October 9 – Singles

• 10am – 5pm ET – Championship Courtroom – ESPN+
• 8am – 2pm ET – Gamers Courtroom – APPTV on YouTube

Friday, October 10 – Males’s and Girls’s Doubles

• Midday – 6pm ET – Championship Courtroom – ESPN+
• 10am – 4pm ET – Gamers Courtroom – APPTV on YouTube

Saturday, October 11 – Blended Doubles

• Midday – 6pm ET – Championship Courtroom – ESPN+
• 10am – 4pm ET – Gamers Courtroom – APPTV on YouTube

Sunday, October 12 – Gold Medal Matches

• 11:30am – 6pm ET – Championship Courtroom – ESPN+
• 8am -1am ET – Gamers Courtroom – APPTV on YouTube

Climate Outlook

The APP Tour has had some unfortunate climate in 2025, and the AARP seems to be extra of the identical. Thunderstorms are scheduled for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, with the climate clearing up for Championship Sunday. The APP could also be seeking to make alternate plans because of the climate. Make sure you subscribe to the APP Instagram and X accounts to get the newest data, ought to alternate plans be made.

The Attracts

Girls’s Singles

High Seeds:

1. Sofia Stitching – Six gold medals on the APP Tour
2. Katerina Stewart – Two gold medals and a silver on the yr
3. Bobbi Oshiro – Two silver medals this yr
4. Domenika Turkovic – Earned bronze in Chicago within the final occasion

Participant outdoors the highest 4 to look at:

• 6 seed – Shannon Pretorius – simply earned silver on the APP Girls’s Open
• 20 seed – Jada Bui – the previous Cal Bear tennis participant has switched to professional pickleball and is making her approach onto the scene

Prediction: Stitching earns her seventh gold over Oshiro within the finals

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Males’s Singles

High Seeds:

1. Ammar Wazir – Has gained the previous two APP Tour occasions in Chicago and Nice Lakes
2. Jack Foster – Regardless of constantly ending within the quarterfinals or higher, Foster continues to be searching for his first medal in 2025 on the APP Tour
3. Patrick Kawka – Earned a silver medal in APP Newport Seashore
4. Ronan Camron – The teen has a bronze and silver this yr and searching for his first gold

Participant outdoors the highest 4 to look at:

• 5 seed – Will Howells – has a gold and silver this yr
• 7 seed – Dusty Boyer – has a silver and bronze up to now two APP occasions

Prediction: Ammar Wazir wins his third straight APP occasion in singles

Girls’s Doubles

High Seeds:

1. Megan Fudge/Amanda Hendry – A primary time partnership whereas Fudge’s regular ladies’s accomplice, Jill Braverman, is skipping this occasion
2. Allison Harris/Christine Maddox – One other first time partnership – each ladies have medals this yr, simply not with one another
3. Yana Newell/Rianna Valdes – These two gained silver collectively almost a yr in the past within the APP Southern California Open – that is the primary time taking part in collectively since then
4. Susannah Barr/Daria Walczak – Earned silver in Daytona Seashore in February

Partnership outdoors the highest 4 to look at:

• 5 seed – Shelby Bates and Sofia Stitching – simply gained gold in APP Chicago
• 6 seed – Arielle Butler and Bobbi Oshiro – Bobbi is all the time a risk to medal

Prediction: Newell and Valdes beat Barr and Walczak within the finals

Males’s Doubles

High Seeds:

1. Jack Munro/Will Howells – 5 gold medals on the yr collectively, probably the most of any partnership
2. Tanner Tomassi/Richard Livornese Jr. – Two golds and one bronze within the final three APP occasions
3. Erik Lange/Casey Diamond – Lange’s regular males’s accomplice, Max “Purple Jesus” Manthou is lacking from this occasion, so he’s teaming up with Casey Diamond for the primary time
4. Clayton Powell/Aiden Schenk – The children have a bronze and silver medal collectively this yr

Partnership outdoors the highest 4 to look at:

• 5 seed – Mark Dancuart and Patrick Kawka
• 6 seed – Ryler DeHeart and Kyle Koszuta

I do not count on a lot gentle kitchen play from both of those partnerships – search for smash and crash pickleball right here

Prediction: Munro and Howells take down Tomassi and Livornese Jr.

Blended Doubles

High Seeds:

1. Megan Fudge/Jack Munro – Three golds, three silvers, and a bronze medal this yr have this workforce as the highest seed
2. Bobbi Oshiro/Will Howells – This workforce gained three golds in a row in the course of the APP season, however have not performed collectively since
3. Amanda Hendry/Richard Livornese Jr. – This duo performed collectively a ton in 2023 and the primary half of 2024, however simply reconnected in APP Chicago final month – each have had success with different companions
4. Sofia Stitching/Casey Diamond – Diamond and Stitching simply gained the APP Nice Lakes Open in August

Partnership outdoors the highest 4 to look at: 11 seed – Yana Newell and Andre Mick

Prediction: Oshiro and Howells take down Fudge and Munro for his or her fourth gold