The Report
Utah Tech saved the title from 11–20 down
Good morning, pickleballers. Florida Atlantic had the College World Championship at 20–11 in the DreamBreaker. Utah Tech took the next eleven points and kept the title. Also today: a new injury paper, Gordon Watson on Cath, APP’s senior game at Mesa, and the field PPA Europe will actually play in Lille.
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The Lead · College World Championships
Utah Tech saved the title from 11–20 down
At 20–11 in the DreamBreaker, Florida Atlantic already had the College World Championship. Nine points of it. One conversion and the Owls walk out of Brookhaven with the title Utah Tech had come to defend.
They never got the conversion. Utah Tech won the next eleven points that mattered, took the DreamBreaker 22–20, and finished the match 3–2.
Read the College Worlds report →Analysis · Injuries
The injury bill is landing on women over 60
A new upper-extremity study puts the heaviest load on women over 60. That is not a curiosity from the clinic. It is a fact the sport’s calendars should have to answer.
APP’s Arizona Open, which starts on Thursday in Mesa, is running full AARP Champions and Masters professional brackets. The Pan Pacific Masters Games has just put 301 players on court on the Gold Coast, from 35+ to 80+. PPA Tour Europe’s French debut in Lille, by contrast, has one recreational 50+ men’s doubles pair.
Culture · Gordon Watson
Finding Cath again: pickleball, then a charity fight night
Gordon Watson’s account follows Cath from a Queensland pickleball court to a women’s charity fight night supporting survivors of domestic violence. She won the fight. The piece is about what came first: the friendships, the medals and the confidence to choose the ring for herself.
Europe · PPA Tour Europe Lille
PPA Europe’s first French stop finally has a draw worth arguing about
Registration for the JOCO Pickleball Lille P125 is closed. Mixed doubles stands at 27 registered teams and a three-player waitlist. Cyril Peltier is entered once in mixed, with Myriam Enmer; Marina Sičić is with Theo Platel. The only populated 50+ event is one men’s doubles pair, Eric Bosseler and Jean Guyon.
Also on WPM today
Mesa’s 50+ and 60+ field, Pimpama, Ho Chi Minh City and a new Selkirk paddle
In Mesa, the APP’s real depth is in its 50+ and 60+ brackets
Bower and Matysik headline the open singles at the APP Arizona Open, which starts on Thursday, but the stronger case Mesa makes this week is for the senior pro game. AARP Champions and Masters are full professional slates — Jardim and Oncins arrive with titles already behind them, and Scott Moore is a Hall of Famer still entering draws.
Pimpama named its winners, all the way to 80+
The Pan Pacific Masters Games has results for 52 pickleball events on the Gold Coast. The winners’ circle, not the medal-round score order, is the authority.
Quang Duong headlines the Ho Chi Minh City Open
APP Asia’s next stop is at VIAS in Ho Chi Minh City, with Quang Duong in the frame after the Penang swing.
Boomstik ST is on the USAP list. The Widebody is not on UPA-A’s
Both Boomstik ST shapes are on USA Pickleball’s approved list, added on 1 October. The elongated model is also on the UPA-A list; the Widebody is not.
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