There are some massive things happening behind the scenes of professional pickleball that you probably didn’t know about, and they’re almost certainly going to lead to some players who are currently household pickleball names fading into obscurity by the end of 2026.

Contract Renegotiations and Flashbacks to 2023 Right now, players are renegotiating their contracts with the league, and these “Signed” graphics flying around social media are giving me flashbacks to the pickleball Tour Wars of 2023.

As of right now, we have some pretty big names that have signed their extensions – like Anna Bright, Tyra Black, Federico Staksrud, and Hayden Patriquin – and some even bigger names that still haven’t – most notably, Ben Johns and Anna Leigh Waters.

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If you don’t know what I’m talking about, in 2023, MLP and PPA were set to merge, but MLP launched a nuke and started signing players to multi-year deals.

The PPA responded by signing their own players, and chaos ensued. Players were sitting around hitting refresh on Instagram to see who was going to be announced next.

Once the dust settled, the two organizations ended up merging once again and founding the UPA that we know now.

But that was 2023. What the heck is going on now?! Are we in the mi... FULL ARTICLE FOUND ON: https://www.thedinkpickleball.com/pro-pickleball-shake-up-insights-implications-for-new-player-contract-extensions/