We hope you woke up this morning with a paddle-shaped present under the tree, and we hope those of you who are lucky enough to play pickleball on Christmas Day go undefeated at your local courts.

Today’s newsletter is a little bit shorter than usual, but we did have a few things that we thought were worth sharing (see below). Happy holidays from our team to you, and here’s to more wins in 2026. 🥂

And if you didn’t get the pickleball gear you were hoping for this Christmas, you can always take advantage of big discounts through The Kitchen at many top brands. Shop here.

Also in this issue:

• Genie Bouchard reflects on journey from pro tennis to pro pickleball 🎧

• We’re giving away JOOLA paddles for Christmas 🎄

• These paddle brands won the most pro medals in 2025 🥇🥈🥉

Let’s get cookin’. 🧑‍🍳

HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY

We’re giving away 10 JOOLA Pro IV paddles!

We want to wish all of you a happy holidays and to celebrate we are partnering with JOOLA to give away 10 JOOLA Pro IV pickleball paddles. 🎄☃️

EACH WINNER will get to choose the paddle of their choice! 🎁

FOLLOW STEPS 1 & 2 TO ENTER

1. Register here & receive up to 500 additional bonus entries 👊

2. LIKE this post & COMMENT “JOOLA” once you've REGISTERED 🙌

*** You MUST complete steps 1 & 2 to be eligible ***

BONUS MULTIPLIER: INVITE 5 friends to our Facebook community and ALL of your entries are DOUBLED! ✅

We will choose 10 random winners on Jan. 5! 🥳

🔗 Check out the JOOLA PRO IV paddles here

PICKLEBALLERS

Genie Bouchard got thrown into the pickleball deep end. Now she’s a top 10 singles player.

Genie Bouchard is one of the most recognizable athletes of her generation — a former world No. 5 tennis player, Wimbledon finalist and one of the biggest tennis stars to ever come out of Canada.

From growing up in Montreal to moving to Florida at age 12 to chase tennis full time, Genie’s story is all sacrifice, pressure and competing on the biggest stages in the world. In this week’s episode of Pickleballers, she sits down with Roscoe and Jared to talk about her journey in the tennis world and why she ultimately signed with the PPA Tour to play pro pickleball.

She may have started 0–9 in her first few tournaments, but now she’s gone from “tennis star trying pickleball” to a legit threat making finals and beating top players.

🔗 Check out the latest episode of Pickleballers on YouTube or Spotify

PICKLEBALLERS DOORDASH & JOOLA GIVEAWAY: Each week we’re doing a Pickleballers giveaway to celebrate the latest episode. This week we are giving away a $500 DoorDash gift card & a JOOLA pickleball paddle. Enter here!

FEATURED STORY

Which paddle brands won the most medals this season? We crunched the numbers

Each year the number of brands in the pickleball paddle space increases, and 2025 was no different. RPM, Luzz, NOX, Warping Point ... the list of newcomers goes on, and many of those new brands made great paddles this year.

But the big dogs remained the big dogs at the pro level, with brands like JOOLA, Paddletek and Franklin dominating on the PPA Tour in terms of medals won.

We looked through the results from the 17 PPA Tour events in the U.S. in 2025 (we excluded the wooden paddle tournament for this exercise), and counted how many medals were won by each brand. There were 408 medals total across all divisions (24 each tournament).

Almost 1/3 of those medals were won by a player using a JOOLA paddle, and another 40% were won by players using Paddletek or Franklin.

We know what you’re thinking — ‘Duh, Anna Leigh Waters and Ben Johns won all the medals for Paddletek and JOOLA.’

But that’s not entirely the case. Both companies benefited from unsponsored players choosing to use their paddles for free. Top singles players Hunter Johnson and Chris Haworth used the Paddletek Bantam TKO-CX, and several players without paddle sponsors turned to the JOOLA Pro IV and had success.

🔗 Check out our full breakdown of every player who won a medal this season, and what paddle they were using