The United Pickleball Association (UPA) emailed all its signed players on Monday, June 23, about new player contracts for the upcoming years. The 2025 summer is going to be looked back in pro pickleball history as one of the defining moments in the sport. The shift that the UPA is proposing will be monumental in … Read more
The UPA Asia Trailblazers are some of the best up-and-coming pickleball players throughout Asia. The 11 players in the inaugural 2025 season hail from eight different Asian countries. The group has been training in Mesa, Arizona, for the past two months. They will continue to do so for one more month, before heading back to … Read more
In breaking news, Quang Duong has been suspended and fined by the United Pickleball Association (UPA) for a breach of contract. According to league sources, over the Memorial Day Weekend, Quang played in a non-UPA-sanctioned pickleball event in Vietnam. He actually posted about it on his Instagram account: Upon discovering about Duong’s play in a … Read more
One of the APP Tour’s top men’s singles players has signed with the UPA. How will he stack up on the PPA Tour? And what does this mean for Major League Pickleball? What a difference a couple weeks makes. Just days after sending the below tweet on May 6 promising results in spite of not … Read more
The Collegiate Pickleball Tour will bring together the best college pickleball clubs for a series of competitive and showcase events, with over 200 collegiate teams and more than 4,000 athletes expected to participate. The prize pool for teams exceeds $100,000 for the tour, which is presented by the Dynamic Universal Pickleball Rating (DUPR) and the … Read more
Claims that the United Pickleball Association (UPA) are scrambling for an emergency bridge loan, made by a professional player and podcaster yesterday, sparked a flurry of social media posts from the UPA’s new Chief Strategy Officer Samin Odhwani, PPA Tour Founder & Commissioner Connor Pardoe, a number of pro players and various pickleball commentators. Odhwani: … Read more