Season One Super Finals at the Life Time Rancho San Clemente in San Clemente, California. The Seattle Pioneers play the Los Angeles Mad Drops in the Premier League mixed doubles competition.
Source: Major League Pickleball
There’s trouble in pickleball paradise.
The Professional Pickleball Association and Major League Pickleball are now at odds after announcing in November that they would join forces and merge team competition leagues.
The PPA told CNBC that MLP has not yet signed the partnership deal they verbally agreed to 10 months ago. PPA owner Tom Dundon and MLP owner Steve Kuhn had agreed to operate the joint league under the MLP brand name and format. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed at the time.
“I don’t know what Steve Kuhn’s intentions were the entire time,” Connor Pardoe, PPA Tour CEO told CNBC. “I don’t know if he led us down a road to get access to our players to try to be in a stronger position here later.”
Pardoe claims MLP executives have recently gone radio…
2023-08-25 17:46:46
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