The Veolia LA Open presented by Deep Eddy Vodka is kicking off on April 17th and the professional draws for all five divisions of play have officially been released. It’s time to dive into the excitement! As players gear up for intense battles on the court, we invite you to join in the thrill and share your result predictions on social media. To tune into all the action, see the full broadcast schedule and visit PPA TV on Youtube. Tournament results, updates, and pickleball news are made in real time via the PPA Tour Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts, so follow ..read more

Ben Johns is looking for his 120th gold, 40th doubles gold and 45th mixed doubles gold. Collin Johns is looking for his 30th gold (all in men’s doubles). Ben Johns’ 21st career PPA Triple Crown last week in North Carolina was his first in 2024. He had nine last year. === MEN’S SINGLES === #10 QUANG DUONG will leave Houston with his first PPA medal. The 18-year-old did not lose a game while beating top-seed Ben Johns and sixth-seed Jaume Martinez Vich to reach the final. #2 FEDERICO STAKSRUD is seven-for-seven in reaching the finals this year. He has two gold ..read more

Cary, North Carolina. April 7, 2024. MEN’S DOUBLES FINAL:  (1) Ben Johns and Collin Johns def. (14) Augie Ge and Jaume Martinez Vich, 11-2, 4-11, 11-5, 11-6. . MATCH NOTES: Part of Johns’ 21st PPA career Triple Crown. Johns brothers’ 39th PPA career title together. Ge/Vich: first PPA career doubles final for either player. . RALLIES: 1660 shots. 134 rallies. 12.4 shots per rally. 33.5 rallies per game. 72/134 rallies were 9 shots or less. (53%) 62/134 rallies were 10 shots or more. (47%) Shortest: 1 shot (3), 2 shots (5), 3 shots (7), 4 shots (9). (17% of the rallies were four shots or ..read more

OVERALL TOP 5: TRIPLE PLAY: Ben Johns grabbed his first triple crown of 2024 in NC, can he go back-to-back? ALW101 WILL HAVE TO WAIT: Anna Leigh Waters and Catherine Parenteau are sitting out the PPA schedule until Atlanta. WEEKEND PLANS: Second of 4 straight weekends with PPA tournament action. SETTING THE BAR: Dekel Bar looks to continue his hot play with Thomas Wilson and Tina Pisnik as partners.  HOUSTON, WE HAVE NO PROBLEMS: Exciting debut for the PPA in Houston.   VENUE/TOURNEY/TV: Event #7 of the year – one of 15 Opens in 2024, with 1000 points up for grabs for the win ..read more

The Veolia Houston Open presented by Just Courts is kicking off on April 10th and the professional draws for all five divisions of play have officially been released. It’s time to dive into the excitement! As players gear up for intense battles on the court, we invite you to join in the thrill and share your result predictions on social media. To tune into all the action, see the full broadcast schedule and visit PPA TV on Youtube. Tournament results, updates, and pickleball news are made in real time via the PPA Tour Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts, so follo ..read more

A subtle change is happening across the early portion of this PPA season. Championship doubles rallies are shorter this year. That’s using the statistics from the three PPA gold medal doubles matches in each of the first five tournaments of this year, compared to those same tournaments at the start of 2023.  Using those two sets of 15 matches from 2023 and 2024, doubles rallies are more than one-shot-per-rally shorter this year, falling from 10.78 shots per rally to 9.64. Men’s Doubles: 10.57 shots per rally in 2023, 10.96 shots per rally in 2024, a 0.39 shots pe ..read more

Less than three years ago, Anna Leigh Waters won her first gold medal. Sunday, she won her 100th.  With another triple crown, this time at the North Carolina Cup, Waters stayed comfortably “on-brand” as the best, most-dominant, no-doubt-about-it, of-course-she-won-again, champion. Because in women’s pickleball, there’s Waters and then after that, there’s “not-exactly.” With her friends and family present, posing for pictures, Waters celebrated a milestone. Her first title came in August of 2021. Titles 98, 99 and 100 were Sunday in Cary, N.C., the final an 11-4, 11-4 victory over the seco ..read more

To get the chance to play a familiar foe Catherine Parenteau hasn’t had much success against, she had to beat a new rival who Parenteau hasn’t had success with either. Saturday Parenteau did the second part, getting past Salome Devidze. And now Sunday, Parenteau gets a chance at the first part, when she’ll take on Anna Leigh Waters in the singles final of the North Carolina Cup. “It feels really good,” Parenteau said after beating Devidze. “I’m almost in tears.” What a weird, strange trip 2024 singles has been for Parenteau. She’s the second-best player in the PPA, but the past two times out ..read more

Todd Fought is feeling good, Maggie Brascia is just “so excited” and Mary Brascia is living it up. And Mary isn’t even playing.  Yeah, that’s what happens when you enter the draw as the No. 22 seed and make it all the way to Semifinal Saturday. “I can’t wait,” said Todd Fought, who, along with his partner Maggie Brascia, continued their improbable run through and knocked off another higher-seeded team at the PPA Tour’s North Carolina Cup. “I’m feeling like we can’t lose,” he said. Truly, who can blame him? At this point, why not? Fought and Brascia are the only team out of four who had ..read more

The last time the PPA Tour was in action Anna Bright and Matt Wright were the big winners. Bright won a pair of gold medals and was the player of the tournament in Austin, scoring a pair of wins in mixed doubles and in women’s doubles, beating the seemingly unbeatable Anna Leigh Waters twice in the same day. Meanwhile, Matt Wright picked up his first gold in 2024 in Austin and headed to North Carolina back with regular partner James Ignatowich. So what the heck happened in North Carolina? Hard to say, but Bright lost twice on Thursday, Ignatowich lost twice and Wright lost once. All were No. 2 ..read more