Familiar Looks for Singles Day in Desert Ridge

The second stop of the 2023 PPA Tour takes place at the gorgeous JW Marriott Desert Ridge resort in Phoenix, Arizona. Singles day was buzzing with plenty of excitement, some upsets, and insane pickleball. Fifty men battled it out in the qualifier draw for the precious...

Stats-Wrap: Hyundai Masters Finals

Introducing the Carvana PPA Tour “Stats-Wrap” from the PPA Masters at Rancho Mirage, featuring a breakdown of all five gold medal matches. The matches appear in this order.  Mixed doubles Men’s doubles Women’s doubles Women’s singles Men’s singles...

Waters and Johns Triple It Up Again

There’s a real chance we may never see the kind of prolific success we saw in 2022 on the Carvana PPA Tour again. Ben Johns and Anna Leigh Waters crushed the competition a season ago, combining for 13 triple crowns overall. But pickleball is changing. The strategies...

Masters Rain Delays Mean Lots of Good Pickleball on Sunday

Day Three of the Carvana PPA Masters Tournament at the beautiful Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, CA started off under very grey, overcast skies. The dark looming clouds did not detract from the incredible action packed into the first two rounds of play,...

New Teams Impress on Friday in Rancho Mirage

The Hyundai Masters mixed doubles bracket featured a whole host of exciting new teams, with no easy matches in the main draw. Pickleball fans have been waiting eagerly to see how Jessie Irvine/Riley Newman and Catherine Parenteau/Tyson McGuffin would perform together...

New Year Brings a Wider Field and Some Familiar Results

It’s a new PPA season, but Thursday definitely had a 2022 feel to it. In the first event of the year, Ben Johns and Anna Leigh Waters kept their momentum rolling from last season as the pair dominated their singles matches in Rancho Mirage, Calif., at the Hyundai...