Pickleball World Rankings to Launch Global Rankings System and World Tour
Money tends to talk, so on the surface this announcement by Pickleball World Rankings about their world tour looks like it might provide serious competition to the trailblazing PPA. With such large prize money on offer, it could be that this new ranking and tour will attract some of the world’s best pickleball talent.
It also looks like it might be good for Asia fans, as a tour with a global focus is likely to bring more top flight tournaments to the region.
However details are sketchy. below is about as much substance as we can get about this new tour.
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Pickleball World Rankings (PWR) is launching a global ranking system similar to tennis for the popular paddle sport, along with a world tour and major tournaments like Grand Slams, PWR said at its launch event in Dubai.
The PWR World Series will kick off in March 2025 with a $1.5 million prize money for its Middle East stop, the PWR said in a statement. The PWR World Tour events, scheduled worldwide, will offer $15 million prize money.
“This is the highest prize money ever offered in the sport,” PWR’s CEO and founder Pranav Kohli said. “We are delighted to be the team taking pickleball to the next level both on and off the court.”
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It sounds exciting, but its difficult to get any real information on the whole venture. For the CEP Mr Kohli, we can only identify he is the CEO of the “Stag Sports” table tennis empire, and very large and successful company run by his family for generation.
When we search for details on “Pickleball World Rankings” PWR) there seems to be no online presence at all, but we managed to find some reference to PWR being a joint venture between The Times of India and Pickleball Asia (another organisation that we can’t find online)
We would have reached out to find out more, but there were no press contacts on any of the press announcements. We will keep our eyes peeled for more details, but for now, it looks exciting but more details please !
