June 2026
Super Sunday, Super Teams, and a League Finding Its Rhythm
The 2026 Major League Pickleball season opened with two blockbuster events in Dallas and Columbus. From the New…
Danni-Elle Townsend
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MLP
LA Mad Drops Expose the Fragility of MLP’s Superteam Era
LA Mad Drops beat Columbus to win MLP Dallas 2026 as New Jersey finished fourth, showing deeper rosters…
MLP
MLP’s New Pressure Cooker: What Dallas Revealed About the 2026 Season
The Los Angeles Mad Drops won MLP Dallas, but opening weekend revealed a sharper, more ruthless league shaped…
MLP
MLP Dallas Is About More Than Trades. It’s About Tactical Specialisation
MLP Dallas may reveal a deeper shift in pro pickleball, with six-player rosters changing how teams value specialists,…
News
Atlanta R16: Shimabukuro Shocks Staksrud
No.22 seed Tama Shimabukuro beat No.2 Federico Staksrud and then a top men’s doubles seed as the Atlanta…
MLP
PPA Asia Expands, Kolkata Builds Depth, Townsend Signals New Player Pathways
PPA Tour Asia adds seven new stops, the Kolkata Open draws almost 500 players, and Danni-Elle Townsend signals…
News
Atlanta Day 1: Pressure Builds Below the Top Seeds
Top seeds mostly survive Day 1 of the Veolia Atlanta Pickleball Championships, but close matches across five brackets…
MLP
Papazyan Stuns World No. 3 as Moreton Bay Exposes Singles Volatility
Isabella Papazyan’s upset of Sahra Dennehy changed the women’s singles draw at Moreton Bay, while doubles results reinforced…
MLP
MLP 2026 Preview: Why New Jersey and St. Louis Won the Winter While Dallas Collapsed
Major League Pickleball’s 2026 off-season has created clear contenders, exposed front-office failures, and left Dallas facing the cost…
News
Texas Wind Chaos, Sydney Double Golds and Arjun Singh’s Hat-Trick Lead Monday Report
Anna Leigh Waters battled the wind for another Triple Crown in Texas, Hong Kit Wong starred in Sydney,…