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Nearly 70 countries to play in Pickleball World Cup
We hate to see a great point end this way
Siblings Hercilio and Miranda Cabieses couldn’t have imagined in 2023 what the Pickleball World Cup would become in just a few short years.
They started the event with a tournament called the Pilot Cup in 2023, which included 14 participating countries. The next year – in 2024 – they hosted the first official Pickleball World Cup in their home country of Peru, with 32 delegations making the trip to Lima.
This year the event is back and has seen even more growth, with 68 nations expected to participate. It will be held Oct. 27-Nov. 2 at The Fort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida -- marking the first time the tournament has been held in the United States. More below.
Also in this issue:
PPA Tour back in Vegas this week 🎰
We’re giving away 10 brand new adidas paddles 🙌
Epic point, brutal ending 😮
DAPS drops new colors, and they are 🔥
Today is the LAST DAY to register for TKO Atlanta 📆
Let’s get cookin’. 🧑🍳
HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK
We hate to see a great point end this way
If you’re somebody who films your rec games, you probably know this feeling. Everybody in the group is playing a great point and you know it’s going to make for a good highlight.
But then the worst case scenario happens: A net cord ruins it at the end.
This is one of those cases when the “apology” from Jade Kawamoto and Catherine Parenteau might have actually been sincere.
🔗 Check out this insane point on Instagram, Facebook or TikTok
ADIDAS GIVEAWAY
We’re giving away 10 brand new Adipower paddles!
We are excited to partner with adidas to give away 10 of their BRAND NEW Adipower pickleball paddles! ⚡️
FOLLOW STEPS 1 & 2 TO ENTER
1. ENTER your email here & RECEIVE up to 500 additional bonus entries 👊
2. LIKE this post in our Facebook Group & COMMENT “ADIDAS” once you've SIGNED UP 🙌
*** You MUST complete steps 1 & 2 to be eligible. ***
BONUS MULTIPLIER: INVITE 5 friends to this community and ALL of your entries are DOUBLED! ✅
We will choose 5 random winners on Oct. 27 🥳
THE KITCHEN OPEN ATLANTA
This is your LAST CHANCE to register!
WE’RE ONLY A FEW DAYS from The Kitchen Open Atlanta! Most divisions are nearly full, but there are a few spots remaining. If you’re interested in playing, there is only ONE DAY left to register!
As a subscriber to The Kitchen newsletter, we’re offering you a $20 discount off the price of registration — use CODE “TKOATL” at checkout.
The tournament will be held on Oct. 24-26, 2025 at the awesome ITP Training Academy, where the best amateurs in the country will compete for a winner-take-all prize of $25,000! 💰
There are divisions based on age (open age and 40+), skill level (3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, and OPEN), and gender & mixed doubles.
All teams in EVERY division will play a MINIMUM of 5 games to 15 (side-out scoring). This is the equivalent of 7 games to 11!
Every division winner will win a custom JOOLA paddle & TKO medal. We will be giving out the best prizes that pickleball has ever seen.
NEW RELEASE
DAPS drops four new pickleball shoe colors
Over the past few months we’ve told you the backstory of DAPS, a new pickleball shoe brand formed by two brothers and their childhood friend that burst onto the scene earlier this year. We’ve also detailed our own experience with the shoe and talked to the experts at the Heeluxe Performance Lab who put the shoe through extensive testing.
This week DAPS released four new colors to help you blend style with top-tier performance. The new colors are:
They come in two options — a low and mid-top version — and they also have men’s and women’s sizes.
For a limited time, buy one pair and get your second pair 30% off with code TKColorDrop.
Which new DAPS color do you like best? |
THE PROS
PPA Tour returns to Las Vegas for Rate Vegas Cup
The PPA Tour is back in Las Vegas this week for the Rate Vegas Cup, which started Monday with pro qualifying and will continue through Sunday.
If it seems like the pros were just there, that's because they were in late August -- but that tournament (the Walgreens Open) was indoors.
This week's event is being held at Darling Tennis Center, a massive outdoor facility in west Las Vegas that has been one of the tour's premier venues since 2022.
While the Virginia Beach Cup was impacted by rain and wind earlier this month, there will be no such concerns in Vegas -- it's expected to be sunny throughout the week with temps in the high 70s and almost no wind.
All of this week's matches can be viewed on Pickleballtv -- which is now available on YouTube TV -- in addition to the following broadcast windows on Tennis Channel and ESPN 2:
Saturday: 1-4 p.m. ET on Tennis Channel
Sunday: 1-4 p.m. ET on Tennis Channel; 5-7 p.m. ET on ESPN2
PICKLEBALL WORLD CUP
Nearly 70 countries to compete in annual event
When Peru natives and siblings Hercilio and Miranda Cabieses had the idea to start an annual pickleball event bringing together players from around the world, they couldn’t have predicted how quickly it would grow.
They started the event with a tournament called the Pilot Cup in 2023, which included 14 participating countries. They both admitted that the planning for that first year was a bit rushed, but even so they could see the potential for high-level pickleball on an international stage.
The next year – in 2024 – they hosted the first official Pickleball World Cup in their home country of Peru, with 32 delegations making the trip to Lima for an event that drew the attention of many in the pickleball space. The exciting team format showcased pickleball's potential as an international sport like never before.
This year the event is back and has seen even more growth, with 68 nations expected to participate in the open division, 52 countries in the senior division and close to 10 countries with teams signed up for a new junior division. The event will be held Oct. 27-Nov. 2 at The Fort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida -- marking the first time the tournament has been held in the United States.
“We never expected it to grow this fast,” Hercilio said. “We thought maybe we would get 48 countries this year, but to get 68 – that’s something we thought would take over 5 years. But it just shows how much pickleball is growing all over the world right now.”
As the size of the event has increased, so has the quality of the venue, and this year visiting players will be treated to the brand-new facility at The Fort, which features 43 courts and the world’s first-ever pickleball stadium.
Hercilio and Miranda said it was important to bring the event to the U.S. this year – both because the U.S. is home to the largest block of players in the world, but also to show American players how far the rest of the world has come since pickleball started taking off internationally a couple years ago.
“We felt like bringing everybody to the states would be a good way to show off the international players and how much the sport is growing in all these other places,” Hercilio said.
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