Catherine Parenteau and her coach (and wife) Athena Trouillot join Pickleballers this week for a wide-open conversation about love, pressure and what it takes to sustain greatness. Catherine walks us through her journey from Montreal tennis prodigy to pickleball star: the early days with Simone Jardim, the US Open win that changed her trajectory, going […]
Brazilian pickleball pro Eric Oncins joins Pickleballers to share his journey from growing up in São Paulo to becoming one of the sport’s fastest-rising stars. Eric opens up about his father’s tennis legacy, discovering pickleball in 2017, training under Simone Jardim, and the heated match with Johnny Goldberg that changed everything. After back-to-back pro titles in […]
Season 2 of Pickleballers kicks off with a bang as we’re joined by the GOAT himself: Ben Johns. Widely considered the Michael Jordan of pickleball, Ben has racked up 150+ gold medals and once ripped off a 108-match winning streak in singles. In this episode, Ben opens up about what it’s really like to be the […]
The United Pickleball Association of America (UPA-A), the governing body of the PPA Tour and Major League Pickleball, this week announced a partnership with AED.US to bring hands-on CPR and AED training sessions to players and fans during the 2025 Pickleball World Championships in Farmers Branch, Texas. In collaboration with GoRescue and Safe Life, these interactive […]
This week DAPS, a new pickleball shoe brand that we helped launch earlier this year, released four new beautiful colorways: – Navy Blue – Black/White – Burnt Orange – Black/Gold For a limited time you can buy one pair and get your second pair 30% off with code TKColorDrop. There is limited supply, so move […]
The Kitchen has officially partnered with DUPR and the United Pickleball Association to provide promotion and exclusive coverage of the Collegiate Pickleball Tour. The tour — a nationwide series that was launched in the spring — already has showcased college talent in a way we’ve never seen before and will award more than $100,000 in […]
Pickleball Trips, a family operation that includes pickleball Hall-of-Famer Scott Moore and his three sons – Jon, Daniel and Stephen – offers guided, private group trips to various destinations around the world for enthusiasts who want to combine pickleball, travel and cultural immersion. Pickleball Trips now offers guided trips to 20 different countries, from Japan […]
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 […]
