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APP Tour Delray Beach Open – Fantasy Draft Preview

March 17, 2022March 22, 2022 admin 3 Comments APP, app tour, pickleball, pro pickleball

We are on the final leg of this four consecutive week Florida pro pickleball swing. The Florida fields for these

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Recaps Takeaways 

PPA Tour Riverland Open – 5 Takeaways – Benny Backdraw

March 14, 2022March 22, 2022 admin 31 Comments Ben Johns, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

It was a windy one at the PPA Riverland Open this weekend. Like, a real windy one. At times what

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Live Blog Random Thoughts 

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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Fantasy 

PPA Tour Riverland Open – Fantasy Draft Preview

March 9, 2022March 22, 2022 admin 4 Comments Ben Johns, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation, Tyson McGuffin

It’s the PPA Riverland Open hosted by Simone Jardim. A couple of weeks after the Carr/Jardim band got back together,

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Recaps Takeaways 

APP Tour Plantation Open – 5 Takeaways – JW Separating from the Pack

March 7, 2022March 22, 2022 admin 2 Comments APP, app tour, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

We did not get a repeat Anna Bright performance this weekend as we’ll get more into in the takeaways. In

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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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Fantasy 

APP Tour Plantation Open – Fantasy Draft Preview

March 3, 2022March 22, 2022 admin 3 Comments APP, app tour, pickleball, pro pickleball

Part 2 of the APP’s 3-part Florida swing begins this weekend in Plantation. The biggest storyline going into the weekend

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Random Thoughts 

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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Fantasy 

APP Tour Punta Gorda – Fantasy Draft Preview

February 24, 2022March 22, 2022 admin 5 Comments APP, app tour, pickleball, pro pickleball

We discussed it last year but these APP fields are going to be even weirder sometimes with all the changes

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Fantasy 

PPA Tour Indoor National Championships – Fantasy Draft Preview

February 23, 2022March 22, 2022 admin 8 Comments pickleball, ppa, ppa tour, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

There are two pro tournaments this weekend and it will be the first overlap of the 2022 season for pickleball.

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    100%. It’s a big game changer that no one else really is able to offer

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    […] Probably deserved on our end for all the Benny backdraw jokes, mopey Ben and Collin references, MLP lighting complaint…

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    The note about Callie Smith's singles game really stood out — her athleticism always seemed like it could translate there,…

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