Dikosavljevic won all three professional divisions she entered at the PPA 250 Melbourne, while Dussault completed an unbeaten singles and doubles weekend at the Macon PPA Challenger.
Andie Dikosavljevic entered three divisions at the PPA 250 Melbourne. She left with three gold medals.
Her route through women’s singles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles required nine matches from the quarter-finals onwards. Dikosavljevic won all nine and dropped only one game, in the mixed doubles final.
It was the weekend’s most complete performance, but not its only multi-title run. Harrison Brown won Melbourne’s men’s singles and men’s doubles championships, while Tristan Dussault completed an unbeaten double of his own at the Macon PPA Challenger.
Dussault won the men’s singles title and partnered Jae Centonze to men’s doubles gold. Across the two brackets, he recorded 12 winners-bracket victories without a defeat.
Dikosavljevic leaves Melbourne no route around her
Dikosavljevic’s control was clearest in singles.
She beat Isabelle Papazyan 11-6, 11-2 in the quarter-finals before allowing Tayah Cross only four points in an 11-1, 11-3 semi-final. Mihika Yadav reached the gold-medal match by defeating Shannon Spencer in straight games, but the final was even more emphatic.
Dikosavljevic won 11-1, 11-0.
Across her final three singles matches, she outscored her opponents 66-13. Spencer recovered to beat Cross 11-6, 11-1 for bronze.
The margins narrowed in doubles without changing the outcome.
Dikosavljevic and Sarah Burr defeated Crystal Mildwaters and Emily Martin before overcoming Ayesha Dang and Bee Horsley 11-8, 11-9 in the women’s doubles semi-final.
Bernadette Massih and Talia Saunders took the longer route into the final, needing three games to beat Kaitlynn Hart and Katherine Westbury. Burr and Dikosavljevic gave them little room once they arrived, winning the title 11-3, 11-7.
Hart and Westbury beat Dang and Horsley to claim bronze.
Mixed doubles supplied the only game Dikosavljevic lost during her medal run.
Playing alongside Zachary Grabovic, she reached the final without dropping one. Lucas Pascoe and Burr took the second game of the gold-medal match, briefly interrupting the sweep, but Grabovic and Dikosavljevic responded in the decider to win 11-6, 8-11, 11-5.
That completed Dikosavljevic’s triple crown through three different demands. She overwhelmed the singles field, formed an unbeaten women’s partnership with Burr and then recovered from her only lost game of the weekend to finish the mixed doubles final.
Burr collected one gold and one silver. Grabovic added mixed gold to the silver medal he won in men’s doubles.
Brown turns one Melbourne title into two
Brown supplied Melbourne’s second double after surviving three-game tests in both singles and doubles.
He beat Grabovic in straight games in the men’s singles quarter-finals, then recovered after losing the second game of his semi-final against Daiki Tanabe. Brown dominated the decider 11-1.
Sahil Dang reached the final without dropping a game, beating Brian Tran and Stefan Djordjic. Brown took the opening game of the final 11-2, lost the second 4-11 and recovered to win the title with an 11-5 decider.
Djordjic claimed bronze after edging Tanabe 8-11, 11-8, 11-9 in one of the weekend’s closest medal matches.
Brown then joined Pascoe in men’s doubles. They needed another deciding game to get past Jose Farias and Nicholas Maleganeas in the semi-final, but controlled the gold-medal match against Mitchell Hargreaves and Grabovic from the start.
Brown and Pascoe won 11-2, 11-7, completing Brown’s two-title weekend.
Farias and Maleganeas beat Dang and Daniel Fogl-Kulich in three games for bronze.
Dussault carries an unbeaten weekend across two Macon brackets
Where Dikosavljevic’s Melbourne triple crown was built across three disciplines, Dussault’s Macon double was defined by sustained control through two large draws.
He recorded six winners-bracket victories on his way to the men’s singles final. Wade Heerboth also arrived without entering the consolation side of the competition, but Dussault won the title match 11-2, 11-8.
Eddy Kim emerged from the backdraw to claim bronze, finishing ahead of William Hsieh.
Dussault then partnered Centonze in men’s doubles. They again won six consecutive matches, finishing ahead of Etienne Blaszkewycz and Julian Arnold.
Anderson Scarpa and Rafa Hewett took bronze after progressing through the backdraw, while Ross Whittaker and Heerboth placed fourth.
Twelve winners-bracket matches brought Dussault 12 victories and two titles. The repeat mattered because singles and doubles asked different questions, yet neither field found a way to send him into the second half of the draw.
Policare and Dunlap turn one Macon final into another
Amber Policare won the Macon women’s singles championship after five consecutive victories.
Helena Jansen took her to a deciding game in the final, but Policare prevailed 11-5, 4-11, 11-6. Shannon Pretorius completed the podium after an extended consolation run.
Policare nearly added a second title in women’s doubles. She and Carlota Trevino reached the final unbeaten, only for Isabella Dunlap and Lina Padegimaite to complete their own four-match winning run and take gold.
Liz Truluck and Estee Widdershoven earned bronze.
Dunlap reached another final alongside Hewett in mixed doubles, where Anouar Braham and Truluck completed six consecutive victories to claim the title. Hewett and Dunlap took silver, with Freddie Powell and Giovanna Morelli securing bronze through the backdraw.
That left several Macon players with two medals. Policare collected singles gold and women’s doubles silver. Dunlap won women’s doubles and finished second in mixed. Truluck paired mixed doubles gold with women’s doubles bronze.
Dussault was the only Macon player to win twice. Brown matched that total in Melbourne.
Dikosavljevic went one further. Across singles and two doubles partnerships, nine opponents had the chance to stop her after the quarter-finals. None did.
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