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Winners and Losers of 2025 in Pro Pickleball

January 8, 2026January 8, 2026 admin 10 Comments Anna Leigh Waters, APP, app tour, Ben Johns, major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, ppa, ppa tour, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

We go through all the winners and losers in pro pickleball for 2025!

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Live Blog Random Thoughts 

MLP New York City 2025 – Live Random Thoughts

August 22, 2025August 24, 2025 admin 18 Comments Anna Leigh Waters, Ben Johns, major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

Everything is on the line this weekend. Our preview for the weekend is here. Kick it here for our live

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MLP Playoffs 2025 Week 1 – Live Random Thoughts

August 15, 2025August 18, 2025 admin 6 Comments major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

Let’s bring it back for the weekend with a super thrilling couple of weeks of pickleball ahead of us. One

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PPA Tour Bristol Open 2025 – EOD Musings

August 6, 2025August 9, 2025 admin 7 Comments pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

Our first PPA Tour event in a while. It is always fun to see where players are stacking up after

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MLP St. Louis 2025 – EOD Musings

July 17, 2025July 20, 2025 admin 1 Comment major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

St. Louis is hosting their first ever MLP event and it is one that the Chaifetz family has said would

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MLP Beer City Open 2025 – EOD Musings

July 10, 2025July 13, 2025 admin 0 Comments major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

5 days of (sort of) double elimination MLP tournament style play gives us a nice reprieve from the standard events

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MLP New York 2025 – EOD Musings

July 3, 2025July 6, 2025 admin 6 Comments major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

We are running it back for another event to give some end of day thoughts throughout the weekend. What better

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MLP San Clemente 2025 – EOD Musings

June 26, 2025June 30, 2025 admin 0 Comments major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

The live blog is tough to keep up with full time jobs but we still like to provide some thoughts

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MLP Columbus 2025 – Live-ish Random Thoughts

May 1, 2025May 4, 2025 admin 14 Comments Ben Johns, major league pickleball, mlp

It’s a weird feeling having an MLP event on back-to-back weeks. We did have this last year when the first

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NML is Back!

February 17, 2025February 20, 2025 admin 6 Comments APP, app tour, major league pickleball, pickleball, ppa, ppa tour, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

We’reee baaacckkkkkk! Did you miss us?  Yeah, probably not. But here we are.  For those of you who might have

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  1. admin on Is Pro Pickleball Heading for Burnout? Rethinking the Tour Style Model of UPA’s Current StructureApril 13, 2026

    We are about to both play the amatuer events in Sacramento and have never both done one together so we’re…

  2. admin on Is Pro Pickleball Heading for Burnout? Rethinking the Tour Style Model of UPA’s Current StructureApril 13, 2026

    The lack of difference between events seems like a big contributor to this

  3. Dan Beeman on Is Pro Pickleball Heading for Burnout? Rethinking the Tour Style Model of UPA’s Current StructureApril 13, 2026

    I just got done playing 2 hours of really fun pickleball with friends on our local courts. While I am…

  4. Deb Waldin on Is Pro Pickleball Heading for Burnout? Rethinking the Tour Style Model of UPA’s Current StructureApril 13, 2026

    I stopped watching PB tournaments a year ago because…watching Anna Leigh win every single time got very old. Good for…

  5. Is Pro Pickleball Heading for Burnout? Rethinking the Tour Style Model of UPA’s Current Structure – NML Pickleball on Winners and Losers of 2025 in Pro PickleballApril 13, 2026

    […] our 2025 Winners and Losers column, we wrote that the new schedule for pro pickleball, with the MLP season…

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