PPA Tour, Major League Pickleball, and pro player news — the Pro Corner.
The short version: The names to know: Ben Johns, the most dominant men’s player in the sport’s history; Anna Leigh Waters, the teenage phenom who rules the women’s game; and a deep field of challengers like Federico Staksrud, Hayden Patriquin,…
The short version: Major League Pickleball (MLP) is a team-based pro league — 23 franchises, each with two men and two women, competing May through August. Matches are decided across women’s doubles, men’s doubles, and mixed, with a fast “Dreambreaker”…
The short version: Pro pickleball runs under one parent company, the United Pickleball Association (UPA), which owns two tours: the PPA Tour (individual tournaments — singles, doubles, mixed) and Major League Pickleball (MLP) (a team league of city franchises). They…
