If you’re not already excited to turn on the TV and soak in the scenes from Palm Springs this week, the matchups at the PPA Tour Masters should get you there. The tour’s most iconic tournament – also the first Slam of the season – started Monday with pro qualifying, then it will be a […]
The PPA Tour will kick off the new year next week with its most iconic tournament on the calendar – The Masters in Palm Springs, California. The visuals alone make this tournament stand out, with pros required to wear all white and the courts at Mission Hills Country Club painted all green. The Masters is […]
Despite announcing earlier this month that they would be splitting up, Ben Johns and Collin Johns will still play the first PPA Tour event of 2025 together at The Masters next week in Palm Springs, California. Ben Johns announced the split in a statement on Dec. 21, but said at the time that he hadn’t […]
Each year the level of play in pro pickleball seems to make a significant jump. That proved to be the case again in 2024, as we saw exciting matches nearly every week on the PPA Tour and in Major League Pickleball. The men’s divisions were defined by unprecedented parity as the Johns brothers were challenged […]
Leigh Waters put an exclamation point on her return to the PPA Tour on Sunday, securing the title in women’s doubles at the Daytona Beach Open with her daughter, Anna Leigh Waters. The mother-daughter duo defeated Jorja Johnson and Tyra Black 7-11, 11-8, 11-3, 11-4 in the gold medal match. After dropping the first game […]
The winningest men’s doubles team in PPA Tour history — Ben and Collin Johns — have ended their partnership ahead of the 2025 season. The Johns brothers, who won 33 doubles titles together and 43 total medals while playing together for the past four seasons, will play with different partners next year after a disappointing 2024 […]
The PPA Tour’s Daytona Beach Open presented by ROAR Organic serves as the final PPA event of 2024, but here’s the twist: this tournament already counts toward 2025 standings. While some top players are taking an early holiday break, this event is packed with new partnerships, big returns, and wide-open draws that set the stage […]
If you tuned in to the 2024 PPA CIBC Finals this weekend, you quite literally witnessed the culmination of the year’s best: the objective best point-earning players on the PPA Tour playing out the culmination of 2024’s most exciting storylines. To nobody’s surprise, young GOAT Anna Leigh Waters took a starring role in the action, once again […]
The semifinals of the CIBC PPA Tour Finals are officially set after the final round of pool play wrapped up Friday night at Life Time Rancho San Clemente. The tournament, which features on the top-ranked men and women on tour, has produced several surprises in the first three days, including the sport’s most well-known duo […]
The sad narrative which ardent pickleball fans have endured over the last few years is that their sport just isn’t right for TV. Until recently, they didn’t have any way to combat that assertion with hard evidence. Streaming views aren’t exactly soaring. But behind the scenes, pro leagues have brokered deals with networks and other investors, bringing record streaming, […]
