JOOLA has been a big player at the game’s highest level for several years, making premium paddles that are often the choice of many pros and thousands of amateurs who play at the highest levels competitively. This week, the brand released a new line of paddles under the Play With Vision campaign. The tagline “Play […]
Luca Mack and Juan Varon – two up-and-coming pickleball players originally from outside the U.S. who currently live and train in Georgia – got the biggest win of their careers over the weekend, taking gold in The Kitchen Open Atlanta tournament. The Open Division champs collected the winner-take-all grand prize of $25,000 with a victory […]
In a match that lasted more than 2 1/2 hours Sunday afternoon, Ben Johns and Gabe Tardio were pushed into a corner they haven’t found themselves in since the spring: Facing a match point against … with a five-tournament winning streak on the line. Christian Alshon and Andrei Daescu — the No. 2 seeds who […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Chris Haworth has been through the gauntlet in men’s singles over the past 2 months. The recent PPA Tour signee made his 2025 debut on tour at the Walgreens Open in Las Vegas in late August, but because he hadn’t played an event prior to that since 2024, he was a 50-something seed in his […]
The third episode of a JOOLA video series called “Two Zeroes and a Pro” was released recently, going behind the scenes at the Orlando PPA Challenger event, which was one of the biggest Challenger tournaments to date. The video series is highlighting the players and stories from the Challenger tour, which launched earlier this year and […]
