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USA Pickleball and Boys and Girls Clubs of America launch national youth pickleball partnership
USA Pickleball announced a multi-year partnership with Boys and Girls Clubs of America, seeded with a $100,000 initial investment plus Franklin paddles, balls, and nets for more than 5,500 Club locations nationwide. The program launches in Arizona with 75 Clubs serving an estimated 50,000 youth, and includes at least one newly installed court each year to expand access for kids who might not otherwise get on a court.
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The PPA is building two different tours, and Asia is where it is testing the future
World Pickleball Magazine details the PPA Tour's emerging two-track structure, with its new Asia circuit functioning as a proving ground for a unified global ranking system and a multi-tier event ladder running from 125 up to 2000 points. Chris Beaumont frames it as a meaningful shift from a single dominant North American tour toward a layered international pathway that lets regional players climb toward the biggest stages.
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Sacramento Open recap: Eric Oncins wins first mixed gold as Hunter Johnson is disqualified for paddle throw
New Kitchen writer Chris Cali, arriving from the Sorry Not Sorry show, recaps a chaotic Championship Sunday in Sacramento where Eric Oncins won his first mixed doubles gold with Tyra Black and drew scrutiny for a controversial over the net finish, while Hunter Johnson was disqualified in the men's doubles medal round after throwing his paddle. Cali walks through every gold, silver, and bronze result on the PPA slate.
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The Six Zero story, from backyard prototypes in Australia to the future of pickleball paddles
Pickleball.com traces how Dale Young and his father Bruce built Six Zero in a backyard workshop outside Melbourne, iterating through more than 100 prototypes before landing on the Carbon Fusion Edge Technology that powers today's Black Diamond and Double Black Diamond paddles. The feature frames Six Zero as a driving force behind the Gen 2 thermoforming wave that now defines the top end of the paddle market.
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