https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/ Pickleball news briefs: tour, rules, industry, equipment. Mainstream-press and primary-source citations. en-us Tue, 12 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/mendocino-cove-resort-pickleball-opens-2026-05/ https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/mendocino-cove-resort-pickleball-opens-2026-05/ Tue, 12 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Industry Mendocino Cove, an 11-acre boutique resort south of Fort Bragg, opened May 2026 with 50 rooms, 8 pickleball courts, and a private path to Pine Beach. https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/arizona-pickleball-state-sport-pure-scottsdale-2026-05/ https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/arizona-pickleball-state-sport-pure-scottsdale-2026-05/ Tue, 12 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Industry Arizona Senate SCR 1021 would name pickleball the official state sport, while PURE Pickleball & Padel, slated as the world's largest indoor facility, opens in Scottsdale 2027. https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/selkirk-acquires-bread-butter-pickleball-2026-05/ https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/selkirk-acquires-bread-butter-pickleball-2026-05/ Tue, 12 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Industry Bluestone-backed Selkirk Sport, valued at $200M, has acquired direct-to-consumer paddle maker Bread & Butter Pickleball for undisclosed terms. https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/ppa-finals-recap-top-seeds-win-2026-05/ https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/ppa-finals-recap-top-seeds-win-2026-05/ Tue, 12 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Tour All five top seeds won their brackets at the Toys R Us PPA Finals: Waters/Johns took mixed, Haworth men's singles, Fahey women's singles, Acevedo/Powell men's doubles. https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/partners-pro-pickleball-reality-docuseries-2026-05/ https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/partners-pro-pickleball-reality-docuseries-2026-05/ Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Industry Carvana PPA Tour and Shutterstock released the 6-part docuseries Partners on May 5, free across Prime Video, PPA Tour YouTube, and PickleballTV. https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/anna-leigh-waters-singles-load-management-ppa-finals-2026-05/ https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/anna-leigh-waters-singles-load-management-ppa-finals-2026-05/ Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Tour World #1 Anna Leigh Waters opted out of the 2026 PPA Finals singles draw, the latest example of strategic load management at the top of the women's tour. https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/upa-a-targeting-rule-2026-rulebook-headshots/ https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/upa-a-targeting-rule-2026-rulebook-headshots/ Sun, 03 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Rules The UPA-A codified its provisional headshot-targeting rule into the 2026-2027 rulebook. Fines start at $5,000 with $10,000 plus suspension on second offense. https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/apollo-225m-pickleball-inc-ppa-mlp-2026-05/ https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/apollo-225m-pickleball-inc-ppa-mlp-2026-05/ Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Industry Apollo led a $225M structured investment into Pickleball Inc., parent of the Carvana PPA Tour and Major League Pickleball. The round values the company at $750M. https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/pickleball-studio-paddle-database-launch-2026-04/ https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/pickleball-studio-paddle-database-launch-2026-04/ Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Equipment Pickleball Studio relaunched with a paddle database that filters by your criteria and ranks the top eight by match percentage. Closest the sport has to a Consumer Reports tool. https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/joola-sues-11-paddle-brands-gen3-2026-04/ https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/joola-sues-11-paddle-brands-gen3-2026-04/ Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Equipment Joola filed an ITC action April 7 against 11 paddle brands (Franklin, Paddletek, ProXR, Engage, Adidas, others), alleging propulsion-core patent infringement. https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/briones-3-skills-amateur-vs-advanced-2026-04/ https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/briones-3-skills-amateur-vs-advanced-2026-04/ Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Coaching Jordan Briones's 17-minute breakdown of the three skills that gate the 4.0 transition crossed 50,000 views in two weeks. The framework matches what coaches across our citation set have been saying. https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/pickleball-studio-joola-pro-v-review-2026-03/ https://mypickleballconnect.com/news/pickleball-studio-joola-pro-v-review-2026-03/ Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Equipment Pickleball Studio's Joola Pro V review crossed 29,000 views with a notably skeptical headline. The paddle market's pace of innovation is a real conversation now.