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USA Pickleball held the 17th annual 2026 Oceanview USA Pickleball National Championships at the Barnes Tennis Center in San Diego, California. Here’s a recap of the “pro” divisions from the championships, which are the culmination of a year’s worth of Golden Ticket qualifiers around the country for the sport’s top amateurs.
, where you can get tournament details, draw sheets, and results.
Both singles finalists advanced through pretty tough draws to more than earn their title spots. No. 1 Ronan Camron took out Devilliers, Kawka, and DeHeart, while No. 6 Andre Millet won a play-in, then beat Lane, Dussault, and Boyer to make the final from the bottom half. In the end, Camron was just too much, winning the singles final 8,5
Gold: Ronan Camron. Silver: Andre Millet. Bronze: Dusty Boyer.
A mostly chalk draw resulted with the top four seeds getting to the semis. From there, both lower seeds advanced, with No. 4 Seone Mendez taking out top seed Kat Stewart and No. 3 Bobbi Oshiro upsetting No. 2 Domenika Turkovic. Mendez continued her run in the final, crushing Oshiro 0,4 for the national title.
Gold: Seone Mendez. Silver: Bobbi Oshiro. Bronze: Domenika Turkovic.
Top Seeds Kat Stewart & Richard Livornese held firm in a chalky draw to make the final from the top half of the draw, surviving a tough challenge in the quarters but easing past No. 4 seeds Manthou & Maddox in the semis. The bottom half came down to a 2-vs-3 semi, with Jack Munro partnering with his favorite international mixed teammate Roos van Reek to oust No. 2 seeds Oshiro & Blanco to get to the final.
In the final, Stewart & Livornese won in two straight to give the latter the double for Nationals at the expense of his doubles partner.
Gold: Stewart & Livornese. Silver: van Reek & Munro. Bronze: Maddox & Manthou.
Jack Munro & Richard Livornese defended their 2025 title, and Munro won his third straight National title, by taking out surprise finalists Jaylen Broderick & Zack Card in a come-from-behind 3 game win. Broderick & Card, the 14th seeds, took out No. 3 Palm & Camron early, then continued their run to the final before falling.
No. 15 Jay Devilliers teamed with Harsh Mehta claimed the bronze after ousting the No. 2 seeds early.
Gold: Munro & Livornese. Silver: Broderick & Card. Bronze: Devilliers & Mehta
Vivian Glozman and Roos van Reek took their No. 8 seed and ran with it, winning their play-in round of 16 match then ousting the No. 1, 2 and 4 seeds to sweep their way to the title. They had a come-from-behind 12-10 in the third win over the event’s top seeds Hendry & Maddox in the quarters, then topped the No. 2 seeds Oshiro & Stewart in the final for the title.
Gold: Glozman & van Reek. Silver: Oshiro & Stewart. Bronze: Turkovic & Lane.
Ever since USAP’s partnership with the APP, it has adopted the APP’s monikers for its 50+ and 60+ top divisions. Here are the winners from those divisions on the weekend.
Impressively, more than a few of the senior pros played their divisions in Dallas, then flew to San Diego (or vice versa) to compete in both events in the same week.
The Pro Pickleball Medal Tracker spreadsheets have now been updated with these results. , 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, much of November involves international events. MLP Asia, MLP Australia, some international events. We don’t have a domestic event until the last week of November, when the PPA heads to Daytona Beach.
Before we leave, a bit of editorialization. The “national traveling pickleball” player community is a finite one, and by virtue of USAP and the PPA both holding their seminal seasonal events on the same weekend, players were forced to choose which event to enter and attend, and thus USAP Nationals saw a decline in participation for the fourth straight year. There were still nearly 2,300 players in San Diego, so the event was well attended of course, but that number is now on a par with their 2021 event despite the exponential growth of the sport at the same time, a clear indicator to me that USA Pickleball needs to re-think when it holds its event and how closely it schedules against the PPA’s growing behemoth in Dallas.
At one point (2023), USAP and the PPA collaborated on this event, but for various reasons parted ways soon afterwards. Since, the PPA’s exclusive contracts preclude its contracted players from competing at Nationals, and thus at the top levels of competition this essentially looks like an APP tour stop. There is nothing wrong with that statement if your focus is on hosting a national tournament for all the amateur competitors, which is essentially what this event is and should be, but the realities of the pickleball tournament consumer are simple: if they’re committing the money to travel to a national event, they want to be entertained in addition to competing, and PPA Worlds pro spectacle far outweighs what a non-PPA event has to offer.
Schedules at host facilities always come into play, and there very well may not have been another good weekend to hold this event at the Barnes Center, but there are also more choices of venues capable of hosting such a volume of players now, most of them in warm-weather areas, and putting some distance from PPA Worlds may be something that needs to be considered. If this event was in a month’s time for example, that’d be more than enough distance from PPA Worlds to allow fans to attend both events.
There are easy ways around fixture congestion now that we have a regular event cadence, and as a fan of the sport I want to see the biggest crowds at both events. USA Pickleball needs to adjust its schedule and work around Worlds.
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