in 2024, and the floodgates of the sport opened up for her at this year’ s Nationals.
Sewing entered the tournament as the top seed and breezed through to the finals in Women’ s Pro Singles where she met Katerina Stewart, who had defeated defending champion Bobbi Oshiro in the semifinals. Sewing had beaten Domenika Turkovic in straight games 11-3, 11-4 in the other semifinal.
After dropping the first game of the final 11-5, Sewing came back, taking the next two games 11-5, 11-5 to earn the crown.
“ I had very high expectations for this tournament and it was an event that I had wanted to play for quite a while. I heard so many great things about Nationals and I’ m so very excited for how it turned out,” said Sewing.
Turkovic earned the bronze medal, defeating Oshiro in three tough games, 11-5, 4-11, 11-6.
Sewing then teamed up with Casey Diamond for the Pro Mixed Doubles event.
In perhaps the match of the tournament, Sewing-Diamond met up with the top-seeded tandem of Megan Fudge and Jack Munro in the semifinals.
After dropping a tight first game 12-10, Fudge and Munro took game two, 11-9. In the climactic third game, through tense back-and-forth rallies that featured incredible net play, Sewing and Diamond came out on top 12-10 to make it into the finals.
There, they met the duo of Jillian Braverman and Aidan Schenk.
It took only two games— both by the score of 11-9— for Sewing to earn her second gold medal of the tournament, and for Diamond, his first playing with Sewing.
“ Winning this gold medal with Sofia is really special for me. We’ ve been training about six to seven
Jack Munro( left) hits a volley shot from opponents Max " Purple Jesus " Manthou and Erik Lange. Richard Livornese and Jack Munro win the gold medal in the Pro Men ' s Doubles division.
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Patrick Kawka hits a forehand drive shot from the baseline against Ronan Camron in the Pro Men ' s Singles finals match.
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