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APP Tour Delray Beach Open – Live Random Thoughts

March 17, 2022March 21, 2022 admin 6 Comments APP, app tour, pickleball, pro pickleball

This is a tier 1 APP Tour tourney, which means we get a Championship Sunday. 4 more days of pickleball?

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PPA Tour Riverland Open – Live Random Thoughts

March 10, 2022March 22, 2022 admin 45 Comments app tour, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

We wondered in our opening of our fantasy fraft preview about whether PPA contracted players could be upset about high

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Live Blog Random Thoughts 

APP Tour Plantation Open – Live Random Thoughts

March 4, 2022March 22, 2022 admin 10 Comments APP, app tour, pickleball, pro pickleball

We have new partnerships and players who aren’t at a lot of these tournaments like the Kawamoto’s this weekend. Of

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PPA Tour Indoor National Championships and APP Tour Punta Gorda – Random Thoughts

February 24, 2022March 22, 2022 admin 9 Comments APP, app tour, Ben Johns, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation, Tyson McGuffin

No live blog this weekend with two tournaments happening at the same time. We’ll see if we can get some

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REPORT: Ben Johns to JOOLA?

February 11, 2022March 31, 2022 admin 19 Comments Ben Johns, franklin, JOOLA, pickleball, pro pickleball

UPDATE TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE (April 1): Ben Johns has announced he is signing with JOOLA. It is clear at this

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APP Tour Boca Raton Masters – Live Random Thoughts

January 20, 2022March 22, 2022 admin 5 Comments APP, app tour, pickleball, pro pickleball

Live thoughts throughout the weekend on the tournament. Check out the fantasy draft preview for our take on the field

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APP Tour Mesa Open – Live Random Thoughts

January 13, 2022March 22, 2022 admin 12 Comments APP, app tour, pickleball, pro pickleball

Since we seem to have some more readers recently, we wanted to let you know what we try to do

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Opinion Random Thoughts 

PPA Says Good Bye to Spin Serves – Random Thoughts

December 29, 2021March 22, 2022 admin 9 Comments APP, app tour, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation, USA Pickleball, usap, usapa

On the heels of our big questions post yesterday and answering whether the Morgan Evans serve would have any impact

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Irina’s Retirement (no, not that kind of Retirement)

December 17, 2021March 22, 2022 admin 27 Comments Nationals, pickleball, pro pickleball, retirement

Authored by Gritty So I wasn’t going to write about this but here we are. I had intended to include

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Simone Jardim’s Retirement – Random Thoughts

December 14, 2021March 22, 2022 admin 17 Comments ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation, retirement, Simone Jardim

Authored by Gritty The big news coming from yesterday was from Simone Jardim’s live stream on Facebook. Simone announced at

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