2026 PPA Tour Finals: Format, pools and schedule
Last Edited
May 06 2026
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With the move to a fall-spring schedule, this week's PPA Tour Finals serve as the season-ending championship for the top players on tour.
The event starts Wednesday in San Clemente, California, and features the Top 8 players in singles and mixed doubles and the Top 16 in men's and women's doubles, based on updated standings points after last week's Atlanta Pickleball Championships.
There are 2,000 points on the line for the winners in each division, giving those players who qualified for this event an opportunity to get their 2026-27 season off to a strong start. The PPA Tour will take a break for several months after this event as the Major League Pickleball season takes center stage over the summer.
The PPA is also running a secondary event worth 500 points for pro players who did not qualify for the Finals.
PPA Finals format
There are 2 pools in each division, each with four players or teams. Pool play will be Wednesday-Friday, with each player/team playing the other three teams in their pool once.
The top 2 seeds from each pool will advance to the semifinals on Saturday. The top seed in Pool A will play the No. 2 seed from Pool B. The finals will be held on Sunday.
For doubles, the No. 1 player in each division had the option to select their partner for the event. After that, the next player in line had the option to select their partner.
Example: In women's doubles, No. 1 Anna Leigh Waters selected No. 2 Anna Bright. No. 3 Tyra Black then had her choice of partners, and she selected No. 4 Jorja Johnson. This process continues until all 8 teams are decided.
For mixed doubles, the men selected their partners this year (the women selected partners last year). In most cases, the pairings went how you would expect, with players selecting their normal PPA Tour partners or at least players they had played with previously.
PPA Finals schedule
PPA Finals players/pools
WOMEN'S SINGLES
Pool A
Kate Fahey
Lea Jansen
Catherine Parenteau
Liz Truluck
Pool B
Kaitlyn Christian
Brooke Buckner
Chao Yi Wang
Judit Castillo
Note: Anna Leigh Waters was No. 1 in the points standings, but she pulled out of singles for this event. During her matches on Sunday in Atlanta, Waters was wearing two knee braces and indicated in her post-match interviews that she wasn't 100% healthy. Her absence gets Liz Truluck, who finished the year ranked No. 9, into the field.
MEN'S SINGLES
Pool A
Chris Haworth
Christian Alshon
Connor Garnett
Jack Sock
Pool B
Federico Staksrud
Hunter Johnson
Roscoe Bellamy
John Lucian Goins
WOMEN'S DOUBLES
Pool A
Anna Leigh Waters/Anna Bright
Catherine Parenteau/Jade Kawamoto
Kate Fahey/Jamie Wei
Meghan Dizon/Alix Truong
Pool B
Jorja Johnson/Tyra Black
Parris Todd/Rachel Rohrabacher
Tina Pisnik/Lacy Schneemann
Chao Yi Wang/Kaitlyn Christian
MEN'S DOUBLES
Pool A
Ben Johns/Gabe Tardio
JW Johnson/CJ Klinger
Eric Oncins/Dylan Frazier
Connor Garnett/Riley Newman
Pool B
Christian Alshon/Hayden Patriquin
Andrei Daescu/Federico Staksrud
Tyson McGuffin/Noe Khlif
Jay Devilliers/Jaume Martinez Vich
MIXED DOUBLES
Pool A
Anna Leigh Waters/Ben Johns
Rachel Rohrabacher/Christian Alshon
Catherine Parenteau/Gabe Tardio
Tina Pisnik/Federico Staksrud
Pool B
Anna Bright/Hayden Patriquin
Jorja Johnson/JW Johnson
Parris Todd/Andrei Daescu
Jessie Irvine/Eric Oncins
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