PPA Tour, Major League Pickleball, and pro player news — the Pro Corner.
Short answer: Collin Johns is a 33-year-old former touring tennis pro who became half of the most successful men’s doubles team pickleball has seen — with his younger brother Ben — and who is now rebuilding his career on his…
Short answer on PPA vs APP: they are two separate professional pickleball tours. The PPA Tour is the bigger one, with most of the sport’s biggest names. It belongs to the same company as Major League Pickleball and DUPR. The…
Short answer: The PPA Tour Europe season opened with the P250 Barcelona Open, held September 23–27, 2026. Spain’s Judit Castillo won the first triple crown of her career, and Spanish players took men’s doubles gold. It is the first of…
The 30-second version Fantasy pickleball = you pick real pro players (PPA, MLP, APP), and you score points based on how they actually do in real tournaments. There are four common formats: season-long draft, per-event snake draft, bracket challenge, and…
Short answer: the banned pickleball serves are the ones where the server used something other than a clean strike to create spin — the chainsaw serve (rolling the ball off the paddle face before hitting it) and the pre-spin serve…
Short answer: Federico Staksrud is a 30-year-old Argentine pro, based in West Palm Beach, who has built one of the deepest singles résumés in pickleball — and who, in August 2026, was named the first-ever MLP Finals MVP after winning…
The 30-second version Anna Leigh Waters took a double crown at the 2026 Veolia Arizona Open — women’s singles and mixed doubles. Christopher Haworth stunned Federico Staksrud for men’s singles gold — the headline upset of the weekend. Andrei Daescu…
Short answer: Here is how the MLP draft works — teams do not bid on players, they bid on draft slots. The team that bids the most money wins the right to pick first, and can then take any available…
Short answer: Anna Leigh Waters is the most dominant player in women’s professional pickleball and, by most measures, the most dominant player in the sport full stop. Born January 26, 2007, she turned pro in 2019 at age 12 —…
Short answer: The Kuala Lumpur Cup results 2026 came down to two players collecting two gold medals each. Jessie Irvine and Gabriel Tardio won mixed doubles together, then each added a same-gender doubles title. The men’s singles gold went to…
