Pickleball Inc. — the parent company of the PPA Tour and Major League Pickleball — this week announced a partnership with the Pickleball World Cup designed to accelerate the growth of international pickleball through expanded competition, commercial collaboration and global media distribution. According to a news release, Pickleball Inc. will serve as the exclusive media […]
Major League Pickleball is heading to Chicago this week for the penultimate regular season event of the year. It’s the first time a PPA Tour or MLP event will be held at Life Time North Shore, a huge facility that has recently been remodeled. Because there are only two events remaining before the playoffs, teams […]
For weeks there’s been speculation that the New Jersey 5s could be big players in the Major League Pickleball trade market. On Monday — deadline day — they finally made their move. The 5s acquired Federico Staksrud and Milan Rane from the Orlando Squeeze in exchange for Martin Emmrich and Lina Padegimaite. New Jersey also […]
A month ago the Dallas Flash were facing a nightmare scenario. They’d gone 1-4 at MLP Austin, left town with zero standings points and were at risk of missing the playoffs altogether. It was starting to look like a lost season. Then they got busy in the trade market, first moving Tyra Black to Columbus […]
Major League Pickleball is heading to San Diego this week as the regular season gets into the home stretch. There are three events remaining before the playoffs, so teams have a limited number of opportunities to improve their playoff seeding or get inside the playoff bubble (the Top 12 teams will make the postseason). There […]
When Mady Wolfe started playing pickleball competitively, she noticed that a lot of players – herself included – weren’t fully prepared from a nutrition standpoint for the long and often hot days that are common in the sport. That led to playing great one match and being off her game the next – a frustrating […]
The St. Louis Shock have been the most dominant team in Major League Pickleball for the past several weeks. They haven’t lost since May 31 and have been sweeping teams more often than not as of late, but were still No. 2 in the points standings heading into the Mid-Season Tournament this week. With all […]
The Major League Pickleball Mid-Season Tournament starts Wednesday at Belknap Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which has hosted the event alongside the annual Beer City Open for the past 3 years. It’s the only event on the schedule this season that features all 20 MLP teams, as well as four additional teams in the bracket: […]
Paddletek on Tuesday announced a major acquisition of paddle brand PIKKL, as well as the signing of pro players JW Johnson, Jorja Johnson, Julie Johnson and Tyra Black. It’s the second time in the past 8 months that Paddletek has brought another paddle brand under the Paddletek Group umbrella — in December they acquired ProXR […]
It was a weird week at Major League Pickleball New York. There were a handful of upsets/confusing results, and the event itself was partially overshadowed by the scary incident that resulted in Brooklyn’s Rachel Rohrabacher being struck and injured by a baseline video board that was blown over by a gust of wind (more on […]
