Upsets Reign Supreme At Association Of Pickleball Players Chicago Open

Vivian Glozman (L) and Roos van Reek observe an clasp aft winning the Women's Pro Doubles title.

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After a fewer weeks away, and pinch a number of world events nether their belt, the Association of Pickleball Players (APP) returned location this past play for the 2026 APP Chicago Open benefitting Shriners Children. Chicago is wherever the circuit was founded backmost successful precocious 2019 and is the location of the APP’s laminitis Ken Herrmann, contempt its operations being centered astatine the Fort successful Florida.

Click present for the PickleballDen.com location page for the event, wherever you tin get tourney details, tie sheets, and results.

News and Noteworthy up of the Event

Here’s a speedy recap of notable news items of import to the circuit aliases this event. It’s been a engaged mates of months for the APP.

• On 8/5/26: Spain-based Top Pickleball Tour announces a caller European circuit successful business pinch the APP, created to boost the athletics of pickleball crossed Europe, pinch events starting successful 2026. Their first 4 events will beryllium centered connected the Iberian peninsula earlier expanding crossed Europe successful 2027. This comes connected the heels of a akin European description scheme announced earlier this summertime from their rival tour.
• On 8/3/26: The APP announces that its doubling its 2027 full circuit purse to $3 Million. It besides announces it is going from 10 to 12 home circuit events, portion of a world slate of 50 events for adjacent year, notes that they now person astir 70 players nether contract, and announces expanded unrecorded streaming to show each 4 days of its 2027 events.
• On 6/25/26, the APP announces that its APP Asia Tour circuit has go the world’s first to beryllium officially dual-sanctioned by the Asian Pickleball Association (APA) and Asia Federation of Pickleball (AFP).
• On 6/18/26: Jay Devilliers, #12 classed doubles subordinate connected the PPA, announces successful conjunction pinch the APP that he’ll beryllium leaving the circuit aft the MLP play and will rejoin the APP circuit successful September 2026. This is simply a ace absorbing spot of news, and is the latest of a slew of APP Player signings that person been announced passim 2026, kept way successful a moving manner connected this page. Is this the first of galore PPA defections that we’ll spot arsenic the Aug 2023 “Tour Wars” contracts commencement coming to an end?
• On 6/18/26, conscionable a fewer days aft announcing pinch Pickleball England, the APP besides expanded its narration pinch the European Pickleball Federation.
  The enhanced business will spot the APP and EPF collaborate crossed tourney operations, jock development, arena promotion, world
  competitive opportunities, and grassroots initiatives, pinch the eventual extremity of fast-tracking the maturation of pickleball crossed Europe. The item of this caller business will beryllium the APP “powering the upcoming EPF flagship event, the 2026 European Pickleball Open,” group to beheld successful November successful Turkey.
• On 6/11/26 the APP announced an expanded business pinch Pickleball England, pinch whom they’ve already been collaborated since 2022. Together the groups will activity together to accelerate Pickleball’s maturation successful England. The upcoming English Open is 1 of the largest non-US based arena connected the world calendar.

With that said, let’s recap the action.

2026 Shriners Children’s APP Pro Invitational Results

Before the afloat circuit arena kicked off, the APP held the latest loop of its Pro Invitational format, wherever the tour’s apical pros get together to play an “out of the hat” mixed 1 time arena pinch speedy timed games (8 minutes).

Eight teams formed 2 round-robin pools; Pool 1 was taken by Kat Stewart and Richard Livornese via a tiebreaker, while Pool 2 featured a 3-way tie-breaker, taken connected constituent differential by Susannah Barr and Brandon Lane. In the 12-minute timed final, Lane (sporting a alternatively unsocial haircut) and the fable Barr jumped retired to a monolithic 8-1 lead, past gave it each backmost successful the span of astir 90 seconds earlier moving retired the timepiece to triumph 9-8 and return the event.

Men’s Pro Singles Recap

The power of the APP Next circuit was powerfully seen successful the Men’s Singles draw, arsenic No. 21 Jayden Broderick and No. 15 Drake Palm (each of whom owns 7 golden medals connected the Next tour) joined 2025 Next postgraduate and apical seed Ronan Camron and long-time No. 1 and Wazir successful the semis. From there, Wazir reclaimed his spot atop the podium, wherever he sat for overmuch of the second half of 2025, pinch a coagulated triumph complete Broderick for the title.

Gold: Ammar Wazir. Silver: Jayden Broderick. Bronze: Ronan Camron

Women’s Pro Singles Recap

The apical singles specialists connected the APP took advantage of No. 2 Sewing being absent owed to MLP duties, and the apical 4 seeds precocious to the semis. There, we had 3 consecutive upsets, arsenic No. 4 Seone Mendez upset No. 1 Kat Steward successful the first semi, past No.3 Domenika Turkovic took retired No. 2 Bobbi Oshiro successful the different semi. In the final, it was the Australian Mendez winning her 2nd profession APP pro singles gold.

Gold: Seone Mendez. Silver: Domenika Turkovic. Bronze: Kat Stewart.

Mixed Pro Doubles Recap

No less than 53 teams poured into the Mixed Pro Doubles tie successful Chicago, and erstwhile again we saw little classed teams oust the apical seeds early. No. 1 Megan Fudge & Aidan Schenk were the only top-4 seed into the semis, and they fell to the eventual golden medalists No. 5 Kat Stewart & Ronan Camron

Gold: Stewart & Camron. Silver: Trevino & Blanco. Bronze: Fudge & Schenk.

Men’s Pro Doubles Recap

Top Seeds Jack Munro & Richard Livornese Jr. won their 3rd consecutive APP Men’s Pro Doubles title, topping the 10th seeds Patrick Kawka & Quang Duong successful the final. Kawka & Duong had beaten some the No.2 and No. 3 seeds connected their measurement to the final, but fell (9),2,6 successful the golden badge game. Shout retired to Richmond-native and pro astatine my section nine David Bieger, who collaborated pinch Zack Marceau to declare bronze for his first afloat tier APP medal.

Gold: Munro & Livornese. Silver: Kawka & Duong. Bronze: Bieger & Marceau.

Women’s Pro Doubles Recap

The Women’s Pro doubles tie was upsets galore, pinch each 4 top-4 seeded teams falling earlier the semi last rounds. This is partially owed to missing players forcing the creation of caller teams, and partially owed to under-seeded teams without ranking points really being amended than they’re ranked. This led to a coagulated showing from No. 11 seeds Vivian Glozman & Roos van Reek to return the gold, giving Glozman her first Women’s Pro doubles title since Sept 2023 and the Aussie van Reek her first golden connected the APP circuit successful general.

Gold: Glozman & van Reek. Silver: Hendry & Schmidt. Bronze: Schoeman & Turulja

AARP Champions Pro Competition Quick Recap

• Men’s Champions Pro Singles: Youssef Bouzidi sewage the amended of Marcello Jardim, arsenic the brace met for the Champions singles golden for the 6th clip successful the past 7 APP events.
• Women’s Champions Pro Singles: Karin Ptaszek-Kochis won her 18th profession APP Champions singles title.
• Men’s Champions Pro Doubles: top seeds Marcello Jardim / Dayne Gingrich cruised to the title.
• Women’s Champions Pro Doubles: Klara Nowak / Baili Hernandez upset 2 apical seeds to declare their first APP gold.
• Mixed Champions Pro Doubles: 50+ newcomer Pialena Ander teamed pinch Marcello Jardim to declare the Mixed title.

AARP Masters 60+ Pro Competition Quick Recap

• Men’s Masters 60+ Pro Singles: David Spearman hit Scott Greenberg successful a conflict of the 2 apical seeds.
• Women’s Masters 60+ Pro Singles: 3rd seed Laura Albano took the mini 60+ singles section title.
• Men’s Masters 60+ Pro Doubles: David Spearman / Chuck Feinstein hit Steve Scurfield / Todd Murphy successful a conflict of the apical 2 seeds for gold.
• Women’s Masters 60+ Pro Doubles: Lynn Salo / Laura Albano took the title.
• Mixed Masters 60+ Pro Doubles: David Spearman / Sue Johnston took the mixed pro title, giving Spearman the uncommon Masters triple crown.

The Pro Pickleball Medal Tracker spreadsheets person now been updated pinch these results. Click present for the Pro-only Medal Tracker, and click present for the Senior Pro Medal Tracker. These spreadsheets clasp Medal winners for each pro arena going backmost to the beginnings of the tours.

Next up connected the Pickleball Calendar? According to my Master Pickleball Schedule .. Next up for the APP is the English Open 8/16 weekend, past backmost successful the midwest for the Detroit Open 8/23.

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• APP Current Rankings
• DUPR Player Profiles and Ratings (login/account required)
• Pickleball.com Player bios and Stats

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