Anna Bright is the No. 2 ranked women’s pickleball player in the world, an MLP champion, and one of the sport’s most magnetic personalities — a Cal Berkeley graduate who went from Pacific Crest Trail solo hiker to professional athlete in under a year. In this episode of Pickleballers, Anna sits down with Roscoe and […]
Anna Bright is the No. 2 women’s player in all of pickleball — a ranking that took several years to achieve and certainly didn’t happen by accident. In her newsletter this week, Bright detailed the steps she has taken over the past few years that have led to that success, and how amateur players can […]
James Ignatowich is a former top professional pickleball player turned paddle company founder, best known for creating RPM — one of the fastest-growing and most talked-about paddle brands in the sport. In this episode of PBallers, James joins Roscoe and Jared virtually from Shenzhen, China, where he’s living full-time and running RPM’s operations on the ground. […]
Roscoe Bellamy is the co-host of Pickleballers and currently the No. 6 ranked men’s singles player in the world. A product of a tennis dynasty — his father founded Tennis Channel and his mother was a pro player — Roscoe rose to become the No. 1 nationally ranked junior in the U.S. before a series of […]
Alix Truong is the number one Vietnamese pickleball player in the world and currently ranked eighth on the PPA Tour. She’s one of the sport’s most compelling rising voices — a player who came up through every level of the game and is now helping grow pickleball across an entire continent. In this episode of […]
In 2025, CRBN was the first company to introduce a full-foam core in its premium line of pickleball paddles. The TruFoam Genesis series was groundbreaking, but it was quickly joined by dozens of other full-foam paddles that flooded the market throughout the year. In an attempt to keep up, CRBN followed up the Genesis line […]
Singles pickleball is an entirely different beast compared to doubles. It’s technically the same sport, but the shots you need to succeed in singles are much different than what leads to doubles wins. There’s more of an emphasis on big serves and passing shots, and very little dinking or “cat and mouse” play in modern […]
Connor Hance and Drew Baird are the founders of Enhance Pickleball — the most-followed pickleball content creators, with more YouTube subscribers and Instagram followers than any other individual creator in the sport. In this episode, Connor and Drew sit down with Roscoe and Jared to tell the full story of how Enhance Pickleball was built […]
This won’t surprise you: There’s a huge difference in how pro pickleball players approach and execute the strategy of the game compared to amateurs. But while there are certain skill and physical limitations that hold amateur players back, a lot of what the pros do successfully has little to do with raw skill and physical […]
Chris Cali from the Sorry Not Sorry pickleball show has joined team Kitchen, where he’ll be breaking down all the best pro and amateur highlights from around the Picklesphere. The PPA Tour Texas Open went down last week and we saw some crazy moments. Crashouts, body bags, upsets, egregious hooks, a triple pickle and the […]
