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MLP Daytona 2025 – 7 Takeaways – “Sample Size”

June 11, 2025 admin 1 Comment Anna Leigh Waters, Ben Johns, major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

We have had a couple of very busy life weeks and didn’t come out with any takeaways after MLP Phoenix.

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MLP Austin 2025 – 5 Takeaways – There’s Nothing Else Like It

May 29, 2025 admin 8 Comments major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

Week 1 of the back-to-back-to-back MLPs wrapped up on the Memorial Day holiday and what a weekend it was. Can

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Opinion Previews 

MLP 2025 Power Rankings 2.0

May 22, 2025 admin 0 Comments Anna Leigh Waters, Ben Johns, major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation, Tyson McGuffin

We are about to begin a stretch of 3 straight weeks of MLP tournaments. MLP Austin will be happening on

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PPA Tour Atlanta Pickleball Championship – 5 Takeaways – Men’s Doubles is a Gauntlet

May 19, 2025 admin 3 Comments Anna Leigh Waters, Ben Johns, major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, ppa, ppa tour, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

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?

May 6, 2025May 7, 2025 admin 1 Comment Ben Johns, major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

It has been a fascinating start to the MLP season as the first two weekends were overshadowed by incidents involving

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News Opinion 

What Ben Johns and the Eye-Gate Debacle Tells Us About the UPA’s Investment in MLP

May 4, 2025May 4, 2025 admin 21 Comments Ben Johns, major league pickleball, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

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 Orlando 2025 – 3 Takeaways – Predictably Predictable

April 30, 2025May 1, 2025 admin 1 Comment Ben Johns, major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

The season opening MLP event in Orlando felt like it had more going on than any MLP event we have

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Opinion 

What to Make of the Hayden Patriquin-Anna Leigh Waters Drama?

April 28, 2025 admin 16 Comments Anna Leigh Waters, major league pickleball, pickleball, ppa, pro pickleball, Pro Pickleball Assocation

Is MLP back or what? We’ll have plenty to get to as the week goes along and we’ll have takeaways

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MLP Orlando 2025 – Live-ish Random Thoughts

April 24, 2025April 27, 2025 admin 19 Comments major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

MLP is back and we are also back with our first live-ish blog for an event in a long time.

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Opinion Previews 

The 9 Biggest Questions Heading into MLP’s First Event of 2025

April 23, 2025 admin 1 Comment Ben Johns, major league pickleball, mlp, pickleball, pro pickleball

We are unabashedly proponents of the team format being the best format to watch in pro pickleball. That has not

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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…

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