by Sfapickleball | Apr 8, 2024 | 2024 doubles, All-Access, Championship, doubles rallies, doubles rallies getting shorter, Finals, Food For Thought, men's doubles, mixed doubles, Paddles, pickleball, PPA, ppa tour, Tournament, women's doubles
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...
by Sfapickleball | Jan 24, 2024 | Ben Johns, best pickleball players, Championship, Collin Johns, Featured Player, johns brothers, men's doubles, pickleball, PPA, ppa 2024, ppa tour, ppa tour 2024
It is one thing to stay on top. It is another thing to get better while you stay on top. That is what Ben and Collin Johns did in Men’s Doubles in 2022 and 2023. Here are three examples of that: Gold medals: In 2022, the Johns brothers won ten gold medals, and in 2023...
by Sfapickleball | Dec 3, 2023 | Championship, cibc ppa tour finals, CIBC PPA Tour Finals 2023, Finals, James Ignatowich, lifetime, Lucy Kovalova, Matt Wright, men's doubles, pickleball, pickleball 2023, ppa 2023, ppa finals, ppa tour, ppa tour 2023, Riley Newman, san clemente, Thomas Wilson, Tournament, Vivienne David
In a season of drama on the PPA Tour, both on and off the court, the Matt Wright-Riley Newman soap opera is still going on. A day after Wright and partner Lucy Kovalova knocked out Newman and Vivienne David and the courtside music blared Taylor Swift’s, “We Are Never...
by Sfapickleball | Oct 20, 2023 | All-Access, Championship, cibc ppa tour finals, Finals, men's doubles, mens singles, mixed doubles, News, pickleball, pickleball 2023, points, ppa 2023, ppa tour, ppa tour 2023, the race, Tournament, women's doubles, womens singles
With Las Vegas in the rearview mirror, we’re one step closer to the CIBC PPA Tour Finals taking place Nov. 30-Dec. 3 in San Clemente, California. Qualification for San Clemente is based on The Race, a ranking system based on player performance throughout the...
by Sfapickleball | Oct 7, 2023 | ankle injury, Anna Bright, Championship, Championship Sunday, default, Finals, Guaranteed Rate PPA Championships 2023, ignatowich, injury, james, James Ignatowich, las vegas, las vegas championships, Matt Wright, men's doubles, pickleball, pickleball 2023, Players, PPA, ppa 2023, ppa tour, ppa tour 2023, Tournament, Tournaments, twisted ankle, withdrawal
James Ignatowich got through one match with a sprained left ankle Saturday, but said he wasn’t healthy enough to make it through another. He and partner Matt Wright were forced to withdraw before their semifinal in Las Vegas, and now Ignatowich is also out of Sunday’s...
by Sfapickleball | Sep 11, 2023 | 100, Ben Johns, Championship, Championship Sunday, cincinnati open, Cincinnati Open 2023, Finals, men's doubles, mens singles, pickleball, pickleball 2023, PPA, ppa 2023, ppa tour, ppa tour 2023
It was a bittersweet ending to Ben Johns’ century-eclipsing 100th title weekend in Cincinnati—he finished with 101 titles—but he probably should have punctuated his festivities with a Triple-Crown. First, Ben and Colin Johns scrapped and clawed their way to perhaps...
