The best pro pickleball highlights we saw this year
Last Edited
Dec 29 2025
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Each year the level of play in pro pickleball gets better and better. The offense gets faster, which forces the defense to get better, which over time leads to more crazy highlight-reel points.
We've gone back through our archives from this year to find the Top 5 points at the pro level. With so many great matches and great points to choose from, we're sure we left out some deserving highlights. And we're sorry about that, but we wanted to keep it to the best of the best.
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The Top 5 pickleball points of 2025
NO. 1: WHY WE LOVE WOMEN'S DOUBLES
It should come as a surprise to nobody that our Point of the Year involves Anna Leigh Waters doing Anna Leigh Waters things. This women's doubles match from the Cape Coral Open in early March between Waters/Catherine Parenteau (before they split) and Anna Bright/Rachel Rohrabacher, reminds us why women's doubles is arguably the most entertaining division. There are firefights, lobs, incredible defensive gets ... and to make it even better, it was a Game Point in a very tight match. Watch here.
NO. 2: MEN'S SINGLES AT ITS BEST
2025 was the year Christian Alshon broke through to win his first-ever PPA Tour singles title -- and he won three of them by the time the year was all said and done. This point from the Red Rock Open in late March was a great example of Alshon's rise (even though he ultimately lost this match to Connor Garnett) and how great men's singles can be at its highest level. Watch here.
NO. 3: AN EPIC POINT DURING AN EPIC UPSET
Just when it looked like Anna Leigh Waters and Anna Bright were going to cruise to title after title after they teamed up in the spring, Jorja Johnson and Tyra Black pulled off a huge upset at the PPA Tour Walgreens Open in Las Vegas in late August. And they did it in convincing fashion, winning 5-11, 11-6, 11-3, thanks in part to points like this one.
NO. 4: SERIOUSLY ... WOMEN'S DOUBLES RULES
Just one day after the Las Vegas match that gave us highlight No. 3, Johnson and Black faced off against Parris Todd and Catherine Parenteau in the final. This Game Point at the end of Game 3 looked like it might swing the match in favor of Todd and Parenteau, but Johnson and Black regrouped and won a close Game 4 to take the title. Watch here.
NO. 5: GOAT SIGHTING
Anna Leigh Waters and Ben Johns continued to dominate in mixed doubles, winning 13 titles together in 2025. But they were beaten twice and survived close matches on several other occasions. One of those close calls came at the Orange County Cup in June against Anna Bright and Hayden Patriquin, who took Game 1 11-7 and looked to be in control of the match. But Waters and Johns didn't panic, raising their level to meet the challenge and ultimately winning the next two games to steal the match. Watch here.
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