JOOLA recently launched the most extensive line of pickleball bags we’ve seen in the industry to date. They have big bags, small bags, medium-sized bags, hand bags, sling bags, backpacks and seemingly anything that a pickleball player (or just somebody looking to make a fashion statement) could want. Read next: The best bags designed specifically […]
The PPA Tour is back in Florida this week for the final event of 2025: the Daytona Beach Open. The tournament, which is being held at Pictona at Holly Hill for the fourth straight year, started Tuesday with pro qualifying and will continue through Sunday. As an Open, the tournament offers 1,000 ranking points to […]
The United Pickleball Association has terminated the contracts of pro players James Ignatowich, Ryan Fu and Vivian Glozman after they participated in an event in Japan recently without proper approval from the UPA, according to a news release from the organization. The UPA (the governing body of the PPA Tour and Major League Pickleball) said its […]
Pickleball can be intimidating at first. The rules are a little tricky, and if you’re like most players, your first experience with the game comes at a local park, where strangers try to help you along by offering random (and often unsolicited) tips. While some players like the communal nature of public recreational pickleball and […]
A new documentary called “The Power of Pickleball” is now streaming on Documentary+ and will be coming to more streaming platforms in early 2026. The film, directed by Alexander Jeffery and produced by Susan Anderson, Brittany Fallow, Chris Lyon and Paul Petersen, is billed as an in-depth exploration of the fastest growing sport in the U.S. and […]
Major League Pickleball on Thursday announced that the league has partnered with Owl AI – a sports technology company that is changing how sports are judged, coached and experienced by fans. MLP will become a member of Owl AI’s “trailblazer program,” in which proprietary technologies will be used for automatic line calling and the league’s […]
A new app launching this week aims to simplify the court booking process for pickleball players – and other racket sports enthusiasts – and help facilities get the word out about their available court times. CourtsApp, which has been in the building phase for most of 2025, has officially launched on the Apple App Store […]
Several pickleball pros who are based in the U.S. and play on the PPA Tour are competing in the Vibrant Linping Hangzhou Open this week in Hangzhou, China. The PPA Tour Asia event runs from Wednesday through Saturday at Linping Sports Center, which has a capacity of more than 4,000. Read next: PPA Tour Asia […]
Christian “Tweener King” Alshon grew up in a high-achieving Florida tennis family, went 18–0 at the University of Chicago and won a D3 national title. Then he found pickleball, and everything changed. He built a brand of trick shots early on, battled for two years before winning his first singles title and eventually transformed into […]
The Los Angeles Lakers held a team pickleball tournament last week during a 5-day break in their NBA schedule. While the Lakers have some of the best players in all of basketball on their roster — LeBron James, Luka Dončić and Austin Reaves to name a few — the tournament was won by bench player […]
