Major League Pickleball announced this week that Samin Odhwani will no longer be the commissioner of the league. He served in the role for two seasons. The announcement comes several weeks after the conclusion of the 2026 season that saw the New Jersey 5s win their first title. Odhwani was named commissioner of MLP in […]
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 […]
There have been several new pickleball paddles released in the past couple months, and a few pro players have also signed sponsorship deals with new brands recently. That means multiple top pros were seen using new equipment at the first PPA Tour event of the 2026-27 season last week — the Veolia Pickleball National Championships […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
