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Pickle and Social opens their new location tomorrow, December 7, bringing metro Atlanta its first pickleball “eatertainment” venue with 16 indoor and outdoor courts, a restaurant and bar, a rooftop lounge, and a beer garden. Apart from pickleball, Pickle and Social features a variety of other enticing social games like cornhole, ping pong, and shuffleboard. The restaurant and bar also allow you to relax and enjoy concessions between games. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Pickle and Social (@pickleandsocial) The unique venue, situated within the Exchange at Gwinnett complex, offers a thrilling blend of sports and dining…

The Association of Pickleball Players (APP) has announced the creation of the Humana Cup, a first-of-its-kind event and the newest addition to the APP pro pickleball competition beginning in 2024. The event will be a team-format competition for pickleball professionals aged 50 and over. A New Partnership The Humana Cup, named after the health insurance provider, kicks off a new partnership for a first-of-its-kind competition in a team format for pickleball professionals in two divisions: champion pros (ages 50 and over) and master pros (ages 60 and over). It will take place over the course of seven APP Tour events…

Pickleballers now have a simple and affordable way to elevate their game with automated stats, game highlights, and line calling – all by just using their smartphone. SwingVision, the AI-powered app that has been elevating tennis athletes’ games since 2019, has now expanded to include pickleball. Automated Statistics With SwingVision, picklers can: SwingVision is on a mission to democratize the professional sports experience for athletes of all levels. Already backed by Andy Roddick, Lindsay Davenport, and James Blake, among others, SwingVision has been laser-focused on the tennis industry and its 23.6 million players across the U.S. Today’s expansion means that…

The APP Tour finishes up its 2023 season with a bang at the U.S. Indoor Championships! Faces old and new made their way to the podiums at Championship Sunday following some incredible finals matches. Along with the recent 2024 Pro Team Competition announcement, the incredibly successful Indoor Championships lead us to believe we are entering a new era for the APP Tour in 2024. While the other pro organizations are picking up the pieces, it feels like the APP might be setting a firm foundation. Let’s take a look at the results of last weekend’s tournament and show off why…

The Association of Pickleball Players (APP) has unveiled its inaugural team-based pro-competition as a significant enhancement to its 2024 tournament lineup. It aims to create an extensive showcase of pickleball across the professional and amateur spectrums. We’re adding Sunday pro team competitions to five #APPTour events in 2024! Full details to come! 💰 $100K prize pool per event🗓️Culminating at the final Tour stop in Ft. Lauderdale APP on Instagram Five 2024 APP Tour events will culminate with top-tier athletes engaging in team-based pro play, each event offering a $100,000 prize pool. Team-Oriented Format Making its debut next year, the team-oriented…

Further evidence of the tennis community accepting that pickleball is not just the new kid on the block but is here to stay comes with the news that the USTA Mid-Atlantic Foundation has announced the January opening of Village Pickle in Loudoun County, Virginia. This will be the county’s first dedicated indoor pickleball facility.  Vacant Retail Space The Village at Leesburg will use its vacant retail space to house the new center, which will initially feature four courts with the intention of expanding to eight during the summer.  The driving force behind this idea is Henry Fonvielle, president of Rappaport,…

That’s it – The 2023 PPA Tour season has officially come to an end after an incredible PPA Finals tournament hosted in San Clemente, California. The top eight players/teams competed in each of the classic PPA pro divisions at yesterday’s Championship Sunday and the results were wholly unsurprising. Ben Johns and Anna Leigh Waters, the top two pro pickleball players in the world, proved just that by winning in every single event they played in, earning themselves yet another double-triple crown performance. While seeing Johns and Waters win yet another set of gold medals is certainly par for the course,…

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is in the midst of a pickleball epidemic. Fighting for parking spots near courts and seeing lines of over 60 people waiting patiently for a place on the court is commonplace – even on weekday mornings. “Pretty Typical” “It’s pretty typical,” Anna Marino, the pickleball director for the city’s Recreation and Parks Department, tells Scott Sexton of the Winston-Salem Journal. People come out to play all year round, whatever the weather, reflecting the more than evident surge in demand. The city has had to respond to match this growing demand, swiftly converting tennis courts into pickleball spaces…

We’ve reported on several occasions how pickleball is gaining widespread popularity in Australia. Well, it’s also making a big splash in neighboring New Zealand now.  The Southern Slam tournament held recently at the MLT Events Centre in Gore, Southland County, New Zealand, was the first pickleball event of its kind in the southern part of the country. Bigger And More Inclusive Tournament Next Year The competition attracted a healthy 16 teams from Gore, Timaru, Dunedin, Queenstown, Wānaka and Invercargill. Plans are already in the pipeline for a bigger and more inclusive tournament next year. Organiser Dan Winkel formed one half…

Born and raised in Naples, Florida, Brendon Long’s father’s profession as a poker player led to Brendon taking up the game, too. Following his father’s schooling, Brendon became an excellent player, and poker became his livelihood, taking him across the country for various competitions, including the Grand World Series of Poker. “It was just really fun,” reflected Long. “It was exciting, and it was good to learn and get better at things.” Worn Out However, after five years in professional poker, Brendon felt worn out. He needed to leave poker behind and move in a new direction. Having played pickleball…