Rory Bakke and his girlfriend, Sunny Saengdara, were playing pickleball at a park in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, last weekend when Bakke collapsed and needed emergency medical assistance. Fortunately for Bakke, Saengdara is a nurse and an automated external defibrillator (AED) was recently installed at Miller Park, where they were playing. “I just kind of sprang […]
Players learning to play any sport progress through four main stages of skill development, according to TeachMe.To, the leading marketplace for finding and booking in-person sports lessons, and the nation’s No. 1 provider of pickleball lessons by volume. The four stages are: Unconscious incompetence: Players don’t know what they don’t know. Conscious incompetence: Players realize […]
The Kitchen is proud to present The Kitchen Open each year in the fall — a huge amateur event that we’ve hosted for the past three years. This year TKO Atlanta will be held on Oct. 24-26 at the awesome ITP Training Academy in Atlanta, where the best amateurs in the country will compete for […]
Pickleball isn’t just a fun and addictive activity to play with friends or family — it’s also a great workout and even offers several mental health benefits. Recently the AARP — an organization focused on issues that impact people aged 50+ that has about 40 million members — published an article discussing how the sport […]
The National Pickleball League — a senior pro league made up of 12 teams across the country — has announced it will expand by adding three new age-specific divisions, along with a new series of tournaments that will feature both professional and amateur players. Along with the existing Champions Pro league for players over 50, […]
This week on Pickleballers, we sit down with the most powerful man in pickleball, Connor Pardoe. He is the CEO of the UPA (the combined PPA Tour + MLP). Connor shares his origin story, how he fell in love with the game, and the napkin-math that became the PPA. He walks us through exclusivity with […]
Last week the New York Times published a story that provided an in-depth look at how pickleball has taken over thousands of tennis courts across the country. The numbers were truly staggering, so we wanted to share them here. The piece, written by Ethan Singer, analyzed nearly 100,000 aerial photographs and through that identified more […]
This week on the Pickleballers Podcast, we sit down with two legends of the senior pro game: Beth Bellamy, a top-ranked 50+ women’s pro with 99 medals, multiple US Open and National titles, former WTA tennis star and co-founder of the National Pickleball League, alongside Scott Moore, a 21-time USA Pickleball National Champion, 12-time US Open […]
DUPR, the premier pickleball rating system, recently announced a new benefit for its DUPR+ members: access to an exclusive insider deal on pickleball lessons through a new partnership with TeachMe.To, the leading marketplace for finding and booking in-person sports lessons, and the nation’s number one provider of pickleball lessons by volume. Wanting to get your […]
A yet-to-be released comedy that follows a washed-up tennis pro who turns to pickleball to save his career has officially been acquired by Apple Original Films. “The Dink” features several big-name stars, including Jake Johnson, Ben Stiller, Mary Steenburgen, Ed Harris, Chloe Fineman, Aaron Chen, Patton Oswalt, Chris Parnell and Christine Taylor. Former tennis pros […]
