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Takeaways 

MLP Orlando 2025 – 3 Takeaways – Predictably Predictable

April 30, 2025May 1, 2025 admin 1 Comment Ben Johns, major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

The season opening MLP event in Orlando felt like it had more going on than any MLP event we have

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Opinion 

What to Make of the Hayden Patriquin-Anna Leigh Waters Drama?

April 28, 2025 admin 16 Comments Anna Leigh Waters, major league pickleball, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

Is MLP back or what? We’ll have plenty to get to as the week goes along and we’ll have takeaways

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MLP Orlando 2025 – Live-ish Random Thoughts

April 24, 2025April 27, 2025 admin 19 Comments major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

MLP is back and we are also back with our first live-ish blog for an event in a long time.

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Opinion Previews 

The 9 Biggest Questions Heading into MLP’s First Event of 2025

April 23, 2025 admin 1 Comment Ben Johns, major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

We are unabashedly proponents of the team format being the best format to watch in pro pickleball. That has not

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Opinion 

MLP 2025 Preseason Power Rankings

April 17, 2025April 17, 2025 admin 2 Comments major league pickleball, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball

We have never done any kind of power rankings as NML, but it seems like it would be a missed

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Opinion 

Is Anna Bright the Kevin Durant of Pro Pickleball?

April 11, 2025 admin 13 Comments Anna Bright, Anna Leigh Waters, girlies, pickleball, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

Authored by Gritty – as a caveat for this post, this is a question that the two of us fundamentally

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Takeaways 

PPA Tour North Carolina Open – 6 Takeaways – First Half Review

April 10, 2025 admin 3 Comments Anna Leigh Waters, Ben Johns, major league pickleball, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation, Tyson McGuffin

It’s only April but the new division of the schedule between PPAs and MLPs means that the first half of

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Opinion Takeaways 

PPA Tour Texas Open – 2 Takeaways (plus a Bonus MLP Trade Takeaway!) – Wind in the Heart of Texas

March 18, 2025 admin 2 Comments Anna Leigh Waters, Ben Johns, major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, ppa, ppa tour, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation, pro pickleball association

We are already getting to that point in the pickleball season where events are bleeding into each other. We had

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Opinion 

MLP Trade Reactions – Texas/Miami, NJ/Phoenix and Hustlers Bench

March 11, 2025 admin 6 Comments major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

The floodgates on Trade SZN was supposed to be opened after the Challenger draft was completed. However, we are now

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Opinion 

MLP 2025 Challenger Draft Grades

March 4, 2025 admin 8 Comments major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

Since 2023 when the Challenger and Premier divisions were implemented, we have probably enjoyed following the Challenger division more than

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Have Your Say!

  1. admin on UPA Player Power Rankings Men – January 2026January 10, 2026

    Who are you talking about? The APP situation is interesting to compare. Dancaurt and Tomassi are playing for bronze at…

  2. Jim on UPA Player Power Rankings Men – January 2026January 10, 2026

    I'm extremely bias but know a kid who's never lost to hand full of these listed players. Johnathan and Will…

  3. admin on Winners and Losers of 2025 in Pro PickleballJanuary 9, 2026

    Doubt that a national outlet will assign a beat reporter to follow pro pickleball. Here is the link: https://x.com/eriklange2525/status/1939808717681406108?s=46&t=jF3B0X8OT3pTe6fu82p2GA

  4. Old and in the way on Winners and Losers of 2025 in Pro PickleballJanuary 9, 2026

    Will a national outlet assign a beat reporter in 2026? Eric’s article is exactly what i’m looking for. If you…

  5. admin on Winners and Losers of 2025 in Pro PickleballJanuary 9, 2026

    No, we don’t have any numbers on that. Erik Lange put something out back in June on Twitter about MLP…

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