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APP Tour Boca Raton Masters – Fantasy Draft Preview

January 19, 2022March 22, 2022 admin 3 Comments APP, app tour, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

We were thinking about the rest of the upcoming month and how this is already tournament 2 of a triple

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Recaps 

APP Tour Mesa Open – 5 Takeaways – Bet On Yourself?

January 17, 2022March 22, 2022 admin 8 Comments APP, app tour, pickleball, pro pickleball

Pickleball is back in 2022 and we are here for it. It was a unique, not so unique Championship Sunday

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Live Blog Random Thoughts 

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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Fantasy Previews 

APP Tour Mesa Open – Fantasy Draft Preview

January 12, 2022March 22, 2022 admin 2 Comments APP, app tour, pickleball, pro pickleball

You know how they always say there’s no offseason when it comes to pickleball? Oh wait, that’s football. Well, after

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Opinion 

APP Tour and Major League Pickleball (MLP) Combine Forces in Shifting Landscape of Pro Pickleball

January 8, 2022March 22, 2022 admin 9 Comments APP, app tour, Ben Johns, major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation, Tyson McGuffin, US OPEN

The line in the sand has officially been drawn. The APP announced Saturday morning that they had entered into a

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Opinion 

Does New PPA Ownership Mean New Player Contracts?

January 2, 2022March 22, 2022 admin 6 Comments APP, app tour, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation, Thomas Dundon, Tom Dundon

Authored by Slim We just posted an article we already had in final draft form that we initially planned to

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Opinion 

Appearance Fees, Exclusivity and the Potential Impact on Pro Pickleball

January 2, 2022March 22, 2022 admin 10 Comments APP, app tour, Ben Johns, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

This post was written prior to information we had received about Tom Dundon and the purchase of the PPA. We

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Opinion 

Tom Dundon Purchases Pro Pickleball Association (PPA) – Goes All-In on Pickleball

January 1, 2022March 22, 2022 admin 10 Comments AAF, pickleball, pickleball tournaments, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation, Tom Dundon

Further Update: with more contract details emerging for players, we put out a new article this morning you can find

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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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Opinion Previews 

5 Big Questions Heading into the 2022 Pickleball Season

December 28, 2021March 22, 2022 admin 2 Comments APP, app tour, austin gridley, Ben Johns, major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation, vivienne david

Before we get into the subject of this article, we wanted to further clear up some confusion. In case you

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

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