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Pickleball news, deeper takes, and tour player spotlights. Three columns, one rhythm: Daily Dink for headlines, Weekly Drive for context, Monthly ATP for the players who carry the game.
Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from The Dink's Alex E. Weaver putting Selkirk's new Omni paddle through its paces with adjustable MOI weights, to Pickleball.com profiling Sofia Sewing as she steps onto the Palm Beach Royals roster for her MLP debut at Pickle & Chill.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from The Dink uncovering a clever fake paddle scam at big box stores like Dick's Sporting Goods, to Pickleball.com's Day 1 group standings out of MLP Columbus where the Palm Beach Royals notched the first win in franchise history, and World Pickleball Magazine's read on the Global Pickleball Federation's first member-led election and the open questions about international governance.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from Anna Leigh Waters' active undefeated streak in women's singles by the numbers, to the PPA Tour's PPA Spain announcement opening a seven-stop international expansion, and Pickleball.com's closer look at MLP Columbus tipping off Thursday at Pickle & Chill.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, with The Dink's Erik Tice wrapping the first MLP Dallas of the 2026 season, where the Los Angeles Mad Drops went undefeated for the title belt, the Columbus Sliders banked 18 standings points behind newcomers Alix Truong and Danni-Elle Townsend, and Jack Sock made noise out of the gate for Orlando.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, with the Los Angeles Mad Drops sweeping past the Columbus Sliders on Super Monday to win MLP Dallas undefeated and claim the season's first 25 standings points, plus Vietnam's top stars skipping the PPA Asia Macao Open for a higher-paying domestic Asia Open as scheduling and recovery start to reshape the regional calendar.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, with the Dallas Flash retooling their mixed-doubles pairings ahead of a Group A showdown against the defending-champion Columbus Sliders on the final Group Play day of MLP Dallas, plus the PPA Asia Macao Open opening four days after Kuala Lumpur and putting 15-year-old Tama Shimabukuro into three draws on minimal rest.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from MLP Dallas Day 2 action at Pickler Universe on Memorial Day weekend, to Championship Sunday at the PPA Tour stop in Wilson, NC, and Apollo Sports Capital's landmark $225 million investment in Pickleball Inc. - the new parent company of MLP and the Carvana PPA Tour.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from the Dallas Flash, Orlando Squeeze, and St. Louis Shock opening 1-0 on Day 1 of MLP Dallas, to Anna Leigh Waters and Ben Johns closing the 2025-2026 PPA season with 43 and 31 gold medals, and Christian Alshon needing more than 1,000 attempts to land a Dude Perfect trickshot.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from Selkirk's June 2 Omni launch as the control-leaning successor to the Boomstik, to Hayden Patriquin, Matt Wright, Jack Sock, Caden Nemoff, and Blaine Hovenier weighing in on whether trash talk is good for pickleball as the MLP season returns.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from MLP's 2026 season opener landing in Dallas this Memorial Day weekend with the Jorja Johnson revenge angle, to Anna Bright and Anna Leigh Waters' defense powering the PPA Finals women's doubles title, and the APP Tour's new Asia expansion led by Tama Shimabukuro and Hsiang Wen-Huang.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from PPA Tour's season stats wrap clocking Anna Leigh Waters at 43 gold medals and Jade Kawamoto as the first left-handed woman ever to win a PPA title, to MetaShot and Yudiz Solutions launching the world's first smart pickleball paddle game for motion gaming consoles.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from The Dink's Erik Tice previewing the 2026 MLP season opener at Pickler Universe in Dallas, to Pickleball.com's Jim Kloss predicting a New Jersey 5s vs. St. Louis Shock mini-playoff as an early-season Super Bowl out of Pool A and Pool B.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from Hien Truong's gold-medal sweep over Japanese qualifier Nasa Hatakeyama at the Panas Kuala Lumpur Open to a deeper Asian field, with Chao Yi Wang, Yufei Long, and Collin Johns and Len Yang taking the other singles and doubles titles as PPA Tour Asia begins to function like a real professional ecosystem.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from Jim Kloss's tier-by-tier preview of the 10 best MLP rosters heading into Dallas, to Major League Pickleball's first 2026 waiver period quietly reshuffling three roster spots ahead of opening weekend.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from Anna Bright welcoming 13-year-old Junior PPA star Elsie Hendershot to a stacked St. Louis Shock roster ahead of the 2026 MLP season opener, to The Dink's photo tour of jaw-dropping backyard and lakeside home pickleball courts ranging from a few hundred dollars to the hundreds of thousands.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from JOOLA and Paddletek Group settling the propulsion-core patent fight with royalty payments and a fall 2026 phase-out, to The Dink's high-speed paddle-lab breakdown of Rachel Rohrabacher's 2,273 RPM spin serve and the compact, repeatable mechanics that make her soft game so hard to read.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from JOOLA's first propulsion core patent settlement with Paddletek and ProXR that could reshape paddle technology and the broader equipment market, to Jim Kloss's 2026 mid-year top 20 women's doubles rankings on Pickleball.com and the PPA Tour's Championship Sunday stat sheet from the Toys 'R' Us PPA Finals.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from Selkirk's acquisition of Bread & Butter Pickleball Company in the first move of its Bluestone-backed roll-up plan, to a glowing Pickleball.com review of PARTNERS, the PPA Tour's six-part Prime Video docuseries that Victoria Radnothy says belongs alongside the best sports documentaries.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from Chris Haworth and Kate Fahey closing the 2025-2026 PPA Tour season with singles gold in San Clemente to a wrap-up analysis of how Connor Garnett's strategy upset Haworth in pool play and what the concurrent PPA 500 results say about who could crash next year's Finals field.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from Chris Haworth's straight-game gold in men's singles and Johns/Tardio closing an undefeated 2026 at the Toys 'R' Us PPA Finals to the Malaga Spanish Open debuting PickleVAR and putting European pickleball center stage in the heart of Plaza de la Marina.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from Chris Haworth's straight-game gold in men's singles and Johns/Tardio closing an undefeated 2026 at the Toys 'R' Us PPA Finals to the Malaga Spanish Open debuting PickleVAR and putting European pickleball center stage in the heart of Plaza de la Marina.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, where Anna Leigh Waters and Ben Johns rallied from 8-4 down in Game 3 to outlast Anna Bright and Hayden Patriquin in the mixed doubles semifinal at the Toys 'R' Us PPA Finals, setting up a Carvana Championship Sunday final against Rachel Rohrabacher and Christian Alshon.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, with Semifinal Saturday set at the Toys 'R' Us PPA Finals presented by JOOLA after three days of pool play in San Clemente delivered crossover matchups across all five divisions on Pickleballtv and Fox Sports 1.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from Day 3 of the Toys 'R' Us PPA Finals at Life Time Rancho San Clemente where Jack Sock and Christian Alshon both withdrew from men's singles ahead of Friday pool play, to Zane Navratil pressing the question of when a pattern of questionable line calls crosses into cheating, plus Pickleball Kingdom planting its first Utah flag with a 10-court club coming to Woods Cross.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from the Carvana PPA Tour rolling out storylines and pool format for the Toys 'R' Us PPA Finals at Life Time Rancho San Clemente May 6-10, to PARTNERS, the new pro pickleball reality series, going live on Amazon Prime Video, PickleballTV, and the PPA Tour YouTube channel, plus the official group draws and partnership pairings that will shape Semifinal Saturday.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from the PARTNERS docuseries dropping all six episodes on Prime Video, the PPA Tour YouTube channel, and PickleballTV, to the Toys 'R' Us PPA Finals field locking in at Life Time Rancho San Clemente with Anna Leigh Waters out of singles and Liz Truluck stepping in.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from the UPA-A's 71-page rulebook landing a Blue Card conduct system and Owl AI line calling on May 22, to the PPA 500 draws dropping in San Clemente and Tama Shimabukuro's breakout run to Championship Sunday in Atlanta.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, with Chris Haworth shutting down 15-year-old Tama Shimabukuro for men's singles gold and Anna Leigh Waters and Ben Johns adding the mixed doubles title at Atlanta's Championship Sunday.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from Anna Leigh Waters sweeping a triple crown at the Veolia Atlanta Pickleball Championships and Tyra Black and Eric Oncins outlasting the Johnson siblings in a five-game mixed doubles thriller, to Ben Johns and Gabe Tardio capturing men's doubles gold and the Championship Sunday stat sheet from the final Slam of the 2025-2026 PPA Tour season.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from a set Atlanta PPA semi-finals slate alongside an Albie Huang line-call controversy to the PARTNERS reality docuseries trailer landing ahead of its May 5 premiere, and Tom Dundon's pickleball checkbook contrasting with his Blazers cost cuts.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from a landmark $225 million investment by Apollo Sports Capital and Dundon Capital Partners that turns Pickleball Inc. into the new parent company of the Carvana PPA Tour and Major League Pickleball, to 15-year-old Tama Shimabukuro upsetting No. 2 seed Federico Staksrud in the Round of 16 at the Veolia Atlanta Pickleball Championships.
Read More →Three charity tie-ins in two weeks. The APP Shriners Invitational, USA Pickleball with Boys and Girls Clubs, and the Emmys Pickleball Slam all point to a sport that keeps showing up for someone else.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, headlined by 15-year-old Tama Shimabukuro upsetting No. 2 seed Federico Staksrud in three games at the Veolia Atlanta Pickleball Championships Round of 16 to land the biggest singles win of his young career.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from Life Time's LT Pro 48 becoming the official ball of Major League Pickleball and the APP Tour rolling into Sacramento for its first ever Pro Invitational, to a wave of early upsets reshaping the men's draw at the Veolia Atlanta Pickleball Championships.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from The Dink's definitive 70-term glossary unpacking the new UPA-A pro rulebook, to Pickleball.com's live blog tracking Day 1 Round of 64 results out of Peachtree Corners as the Veolia Atlanta Pickleball Championships open the final Slam of the 2025-2026 PPA Tour season.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from a Veolia Atlanta Pickleball Championships preview as the final Slam of the 2025-2026 PPA Tour season tips off in Peachtree Corners, to the APP's 12-minute high-intensity match format experiment in Sacramento, plus a behind-the-scenes look at how pickleball became a daily clubhouse fixture for the Milwaukee Brewers.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from the UPA-A's first official 71-page pro rulebook taking effect at MLP Dallas to the bubble races at Veolia Atlanta as the last 2,000-point stop before PPA Finals.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from a fresh All Florida Pro League Season 3 draft preview and PPA Tour storylines for the Veolia Atlanta Championships, to a new MLP partnership with Champions Series Pickleball and the freshly released MLP Austin match schedule.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from a candid breakdown of what pickleball's top pros actually earn to fresh pro draws dropping for the Veolia Atlanta Pickleball Championships.
Read More →Sociologists have a name for the in-between spaces where community happens. The court is quietly becoming one of them.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from Proton getting its paddles cleared for pro play again to a 122-shot rally that rewrote the record books in Sacramento, plus a rising junior phenom and Ace Pickleball Club's next Houston location.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from a proposal in Seattle that could eliminate more than 30 pickleball courts to JOOLA stepping into the footwear game with its R4LLy court shoe, plus a Championship Sunday numbers breakdown from the Fasenra Sacramento Open.
Read More →USA Pickleball teams with Boys and Girls Clubs of America on a $100,000 national youth partnership, the PPA maps out its two-tier global tour through Asia, Eric Oncins wins mixed gold and Hunter Johnson is DQd in Sacramento, and the Six Zero backyard-origin story.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from Tyra Black and Eric Oncins snagging their first PPA gold together in Sacramento mixed doubles and Parris Todd, Rachel Rohrabacher, and Federico Staksrud sweeping the Sacramento Open singles and women's doubles titles, to Anna Leigh Waters closing out the Franklin US Open with a double gold in Naples, a pediatric cancer charity tournament in Lackawanna County, and Evanston cutting the ribbon on 15 brand-new James Park pickleball courts.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from Anna Leigh Waters and Jay Devilliers closing the Franklin US Open with a mixed doubles gold on Championship Saturday, to the Spokane Badgers debuting in the new Ultimate Pickleball League, and the PPA Sacramento Open setting its finals bracket.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from Waters and Johns booking the US Open mixed doubles final and Selkirk's sub-$200 SLK reset, to PPA Finals returning to San Clemente, plus USA Pickleball's 2026 Golden Ticket map, MLP scrapping the Challenger tier, and Front Office Sports on pickleball's private-equity rollup.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from DUPR's new wheelchair rating debuting at the 2026 Franklin US Open and Joola's ITC patent fight with 11 paddle brands, to a 1,000-point Sacramento Open race, MLP's May-August tickets going live on Tixr and Ticketmaster, Typti's $100K U.S. Open debut with Terrell Owens, and tennis pros using pickleball to warm up for Madrid.
Read More →Some of the top stories moving in pro pickleball today, from a $1M tennis-versus-pickleball showdown to fresh MLP schedules, a new Engine partnership, and the Emmys Slam returning in May.
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