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Sport-Pickleball to release global rankings system, world trip

Pickleball World Rankings (PWR) is releasing a worldwide ranking system comparable to tennis for the popular paddle sport, along with a world trip and significant tournaments like Grand Slams, PWR stated at its launch occasion 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 stated in a declaration. The PWR World Trip events, scheduled worldwide, will offer $15 million cash prize.

This is the highest prize money ever offered in the sport, PWR's CEO and founder Pranav Kohli said. We are thrilled to be the group taking pickleball to the next level both on and off the court.

Pickleball, a popular sport in the U.S., has actually seen an increasing global presence with Expert Pickleball Association (PPA) announcing recently that it would hold ranking occasions outside the country for the very first time next year.

Pickleball was featured in the Miami Open in March. Major League Pickleball, a professional league where former NBA champion LeBron James belongs to a group's ownership group, intends to have 40 million pickleball gamers by 2030.

(source: Reuters)