Seniors Step Up! Humana & PPA Tour Showcase Older Generation Smashing the Competition

We all know that pickleball is for everyone. It’s inclusive, social and engaging. And the health benefits are obvious – from cardiovascular, mental health, and personal fitness, pickleball is a great way to breathe new health and vitality into your body.  That’s one...

PPA’s Arizona Cup has huge viewership weekend

NASCAR’s wild finish was the most-watched event of last weekend, but pickleball and the PPA continue to enjoy record numbers. More than 500,000 viewers checked out FOX’s broadcast of the Arizona Cup Sunday and saw Anna Leigh Waters earn a triple crown and Ben Johns...

Stats Wrap: Championship Sunday at the PPA Mesa Arizona Cup

MIXED DOUBLES FINAL:  (1) Anna Leigh Waters and Ben Johns def. (3) Vivienne David and Thomas Wilson, 11-4, 11-1, 11-9. . MATCH NOTES:  #1 ANNA LEIGH WATERS and BEN JOHNS avenged one of their two losses of last year by beating the Johnsons, 11-1, 11-3. That loss was at...

Mesa Tournament wrap-up

A quick look at who won and how from the five championship matches Sunday at the Arizona Cup in Mesa, Ariz. Women’s Doubles Winners: Anna Leigh Waters and Catherine Parenteau Well, that’s 64 matches in a row without a loss for the pair as they tore through the bracket...

From survival to sensational – Dizon and Wright make women’s final

Friday, Meghan Dizon and Etta Wright survived.  That’s about the only way to put it. When you face down a match point, then another and another, and dismiss seven of them in all, that’s an expert level of tenacity. The result was an escape. A 12-10 thriller of a...

Mesa Arizona Cup Championship Sunday Preview, from the Stats Desk

(all stats and records reflect PPA Tour events only) Anna Leigh Waters: 22 PPA Triple Crowns (three consecutive), 94 tour wins. (34 S, 29 D, 31 MX) Title #100 should come in March. The next tournament is the Indoor Championships, which Waters skipped last year. Ben...