The PPA Tour kicked off its 2026-27 season this week with one of the biggest events on the calendar — a 2,000 point slam in Cary, North Carolina, newly dubbed the Veolia Pickleball National Championships. For players the event was an opportunity to make a significant jump in the new World Pickleball Rankings, which combine […]
The Major League Pickleball Finals set an all-time MLP viewership record this weekend, with 773,000 average viewers watching the CBS broadcast on Sunday, according to the league. It was the second-most watched pro pickleball event in history on any network, behind the PPA Tour Masters Sunday broadcast on CBS earlier this year. MLP said in […]
Coming into this weekend, Anna Leigh Waters had won all there is to win in pro pickleball except one thing: A Major League Pickleball title. That changed on Sunday, as the New Jersey 5s completed a 2-0 sweep of the St. Louis Shock in the 2026 MLP Finals in front of a packed crowd at […]
Welcome to our annual live blog of the Major League Pickleball Semifinals and Finals. We’ll be providing updates below after each match over the weekend. The St. Louis Shock and New Jersey 5s advanced out of the Semifinals to play in the Finals. Find details of each match of the weekend below. Expert review: New Proton […]
Ahead of this weekend’s Major League Pickleball Semifinals and Finals, we’ve asked our team of esteemed pickleball experts what they think we’ll see in the coming days. Both rounds will be a best-of-three match series, with the Semifinal matches starting Friday afternoon from Central Park in New York City. Here’s the matchups: New Jersey 5s […]
We’ve reached the last week of the Major League Pickleball season, and there are four teams remaining in the playoff field. The MLP Semifinals and Finals will be held Friday-Sunday at CityPickle in New York City’s Central Park. Both rounds will be a best-of-three match series, with the Semifinal matches starting Friday afternoon. The New […]
There are four Major League Pickleball teams left standing with one weekend left to play — the semifinals and finals in New York City on Aug. 28-30. The New Jersey 5s, as the No. 1 overall seed, had their choice of opponent between the Brooklyn Pickleball Team (No. 3 seed) and Dallas Flash (No. 4 […]
If you’re a fan of pro pickleball, you had just about everything you could ask for this weekend. The quarterfinals of the Major League Pickleball Playoffs delivered upsets, high-stakes drama, incredible plays and several epic matches involving many of the best players in the game. When the dust settled, there were four teams left standing: […]
We’ve reached the second weekend of the Major League Pickleball Playoffs, and there are eight teams remaining. One of the most interesting wrinkles of MLP is that the higher seeds get to select their opponents in the playoffs, and the top teams were faced with some difficult decisions ahead of this round. Below we’ll break […]
All four matchups in the first round of the Major League Pickleball playoffs resulted in sweeps for the higher seed, but there was still plenty of drama in Dallas to kick off the MLP postseason. Read next: The Kitchen’s Top 13 paddles on the market + in-depth reviews for each one Here’s a look at the […]
