The PPA Tour and Major League Pickleball on Thursday announced a multi-year agreement with Polymarket that will make the futures market the “exclusive prediction market provider for pro pickleball’s leading entities,” which operate under the United Pickleball Association. The agreement will provide Polymarket with exclusive access to proprietary PPA Tour and MLP data, according to […]
None of us has unlimited time, energy, or focus. By extension, we can only do so much. If your goal is pickleball improvement, then you will improve more quickly by identifying areas of the game that will give you the greatest return on your investment. A helpful concept we use in our coaching is to […]
Other than the physical sport itself, the one thing I love most about pickleball is that it is a game of second chances. Almost every current professional pickleball player, at one time or another, had given up on their dreams of becoming a professional athlete in another sport — primarily tennis. Several years ago, pros […]
Siblings Hercilio and Miranda Cabieses couldn’t have imagined in 2023 what the Pickleball World Cup would become in just a few short years. They started the event with a tournament called the Pilot Cup in 2023, which included 14 participating countries. They both admitted that the planning for that first year was a bit rushed, […]
The PPA Tour is back in Las Vegas this week for the Rate Vegas Cup, which started Monday with pro qualifying and will continue through Sunday. If it seems like the pros were just there, that’s because they were in late August — but that tournament (the Walgreens Open) was indoors. This week’s event is […]
This week DAPS, a new pickleball shoe brand that we helped launch earlier this year, released four new beautiful colorways: – Navy Blue – Black/White – Burnt Orange – Black/Gold For a limited time you can buy one pair and get your second pair 30% off with code TKColorDrop. There is limited supply, so move […]
This weekend’s LT Open, hosted at Life Time Peachtree Corners in Atlanta, will bring together the world’s best singles players – whether they be from the PPA Tour, APP Tour or elsewhere – with $250,000 in prize money on the line across the men’s and women’s divisions. The winners will each receive $50,000, with the […]
Picture this: You have a nice high juicy popup heading your way. Your team is up 10-8 and this is it. Game point. You slide over toward the ball, ready to hit the winner and close out the game. The shot feels good coming off your paddle. A clean hit. Great. But … wait … […]
When Parris Todd partnered with Franklin Pickleball to create her signature paddle this year, she knew she wanted something that would be elegant and geared toward women’s players, filling a void in a market dominated by more masculine-looking black, white and red color schemes. But she also wanted something that would fit well with her […]
The Kitchen has officially partnered with DUPR and the United Pickleball Association to provide promotion and exclusive coverage of the Collegiate Pickleball Tour. The tour — a nationwide series that was launched in the spring — already has showcased college talent in a way we’ve never seen before and will award more than $100,000 in […]
