The National Pickleball League — a senior pro league made up of 12 teams across the country — has announced it will expand by adding three new age-specific divisions, along with a new series of tournaments that will feature both professional and amateur players. Along with the existing Champions Pro league for players over 50, […]
Everyone has goals. Some are big, some are small, some are just random things people think would be cool to accomplish. Pickleball is no different. Almost all of the goals in pickleball are centered around some performance metric. People want their DUPR to increase or they want to medal in a tournament or heck sometimes […]
The United Pickleball Association of America this week announced new pricing for manufacturers to get their paddles certified for use in PPA Tour and Major League Pickleball events and also said it will become a nonprofit in the coming months. The organization recently began requiring full certification of paddles at the pro level. Previously, it […]
Major League Pickleball on Tuesday released a report that details several key business metrics from the recently completed 13-event season. Here are a few of the highlights from the report: – Sponsor revenue more than doubled 2024’s total. – Ticket revenue saw 84% growth. – Total attendance grew 37% (total of 50 event days). – […]
After making a deep run in the Major League Pickleball Challenger Level playoffs and ultimately finishing runner-up this season, the Nashville Chefs franchise is up for sale. An asking price was not publicly announced. The Kitchen took over in a management role for the team in the fall of 2024 and has been overseeing marketing, operations and […]
Jackie Kawamoto and Jade Kawamoto entered this week’s PPA Tour Cincinnati Showcase with a less than 1% chance of winning the women’s doubles title, according to futures markets on Kalshi, which the tour introduced this week as a legal way to bet on tournament outcomes in the U.S. Even on Friday, when the field had […]
Bruce Lee famously said “I fear not the fighter who has practiced 10,000 kicks one time. I fear the fighter who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” The idea here is that you can become good at most things by gaining mastery over only a few parts of the thing. Adherence to this tried-and-true premise is […]
We’re halfway through the PPA Tour Cincinnati Showcase, and we’ve seen several close matches in the early rounds of the tournament. The quarterfinals in each division will be held Friday, followed by the semifinals on Saturday and then Championship Sunday. The venue — the Lindner Family Tennis Center, which recently underwent a $260 million, campus-wide […]
The PPA Tour this week announced its full schedule through May of 2026, including a new stop in Nashville in April and a new date for the PPA Tour Finals in San Clemente, California. The Finals will return to the Life Time Rancho San Clemente from May 4-10, 2026, and will serve as the culmination […]
Almost a year ago exactly, Hunter Johnson broke through to win his first PPA Tour singles title at the Atlanta Slam in September 2024. To that point his journey on the PPA Tour had been admittedly a little bumpy. When he first came over to the tour from the APP in the spring of 2024, […]
