PPA Tour Atlanta Pickleball Championship – 5 Takeaways – Men’s Doubles is a Gauntlet
The PPA is making a very concerted effort to differentiate some of these slams from their regular tournaments. Progressive draws,
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MLP Columbus 2025 – 5 Takeaways – Can Anyone Catch the Flash and the Shock?
It has been a fascinating start to the MLP season as the first two weekends were overshadowed by incidents involving
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What Ben Johns and the Eye-Gate Debacle Tells Us About the UPA’s Investment in MLP
Drama is good for the sport of the pickleball. Storylines that go beyond the on-court action is what keeps a
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MLP Columbus 2025 – Live-ish Random Thoughts
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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MLP Orlando 2025 – 3 Takeaways – Predictably Predictable
The season opening MLP event in Orlando felt like it had more going on than any MLP event we have
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The 9 Biggest Questions Heading into MLP’s First Event of 2025
We are unabashedly proponents of the team format being the best format to watch in pro pickleball. That has not
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PPA Tour North Carolina Open – 6 Takeaways – First Half Review
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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PPA Tour Texas Open – 2 Takeaways (plus a Bonus MLP Trade Takeaway!) – Wind in the Heart of Texas
We are already getting to that point in the pickleball season where events are bleeding into each other. We had
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MLP 2025 Premier Draft Grades
Another year. Another draft. It was more of a reset considering the tenuous keeper situation that was created by MLP, which
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PPA Tour Mesa Cup – 5 Takeaways – Is Ben Johns Washed?
Recency bias be damned, this had to be one of the best PPA events in the history of the tour.
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