Arizona Athletic Grounds and the PPA Tour have announced a multi-decade partnership that will make the “PPA Campus at Arizona Athletic Grounds” a national home for the the professional and amateur pickleball organization. Arizona Athletic Grounds is already home to multiple annual PPA Tour events, including the Mesa Cup in February and the Arizona Open, […]
The PPA Tour heads back to the Phoenix area this week for the 2026 Arizona Open. It’s the second time this year the pro tour has visited Arizona, as it held the Mesa Cup in February at Arizona Athletic Grounds, which has more than 40 dedicated courts and a covered stadium court. This week’s Arizona […]
Imagine you’ve played 302 matches at the highest level of pickleball. Of those, you have won 295 and lost only 7. That’s a 97.3% win rate. Sounds like a fantasy. But for Ben Johns and Anna Leigh Waters, it’s reality. They are the most dominant team in the history of our sport across any doubles […]
The PPA Tour is back in action this week in Cary, North Carolina, for the Veolia Pickleball National Championships. It’s the first event of the tour’s 2026-27 season, and it’s a big one — as a slam, it is worth 2,000 ranking points for the winners in each division. Pro qualifying took place Monday and […]
The PPA Tour on Wednesday announced the launch of the World Pickleball Rankings, a first-of-its-kind system designed to identify the best overall pro pickleball players in the world. The new ranking system will debut in the 2026-27 season and bring every PPA Tour event around the world under one unified, global leaderboard. According to a […]
The PPA Tour on Tuesday announced the creation of PPA Tour Europe, a new circuit that will feature 20 pro pickleball events across 9 European countries in 2026 and 2027. The inaugural PPA Tour Europe season will have a total prize pool of €545,000 and culminate in the PPA Finals Europe in May 2027. Tour […]
Pickleball Inc. — the parent company of the PPA Tour and Major League Pickleball — this week announced a partnership with the Pickleball World Cup designed to accelerate the growth of international pickleball through expanded competition, commercial collaboration and global media distribution. According to a news release, Pickleball Inc. will serve as the exclusive media […]
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The most iconic tournament on the PPA Tour calendar delivered several iconic moments and matches this week, from Ben Johns sending a warning shot high and hard at Quang Duong to Jericho Grollman letting everyone in Palm Springs know how he really feels about James Ignatowich. But the story of The Masters on Sunday was […]
