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ICYMI: July's issue of World Pickleball Magazine is out now
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Issue 18 Launch: Today’s Email Is DifferentGood morning.
Today is not the usual news briefing.
Once a month, we stop chasing the daily cycle and ask a bigger question: what actually mattered?
Issue 18 of World Pickleball Magazine is live now. It is free to read, and I genuinely think it is one of the strongest editions we have produced.
Read The July Magazine
This month’s issue is about a sport growing up.
Professional pickleball is asking harder questions. The global game is spreading into new markets. Asia is becoming impossible to ignore. Analytics are starting to change how people understand rallies. Travel, community, money, history and identity all run through the issue.
It is not a collection of articles. It is a snapshot of where pickleball is in July 2026.
Inside Issue 18
Zoey Weil is our cover story, and the piece is really about more than one player. It is about life inside a professional sport trying to build itself while everyone is already watching.
Where Is The Money Moving? follows the capital, sponsorship and infrastructure shaping pickleball’s next phase.
Medellín launches our new Pickleball Passport section, built for players who love the sport but also want the journey around it.
Scott Ross and PEWPEW Analytics take us inside one of the most interesting attempts yet to explain what actually wins points.
Asia Rising looks at DUPR, APP Asia, Penang, player movement and the commercial structures forming across the continent.
Road to the English Open brings together a month of ordinary players preparing for something that now feels much bigger than a tournament.
Six Pieces To Start With
Zoey Weil: Growing Pains
Inside professional pickleball’s most important year yet.
Where Is The Money Moving?
A global look at pickleball’s changing financial landscape.
Medellín: The Pickleball Traveller’s Guide
For players choosing their next adventure by the courts they can find.
When Every Shot Has a Value
The analytics conversation pickleball probably needed to have.
APP Asia Tour: Penang
Why one tournament says something bigger about Asia’s professional future.
Road to the English Open
A month of preparation, pressure, doubt and progress.
Why This Issue Matters
A few years ago, most pickleball stories were still trying to prove the sport was real.
This issue feels different.
The assumption now is that pickleball matters. The harder question is what kind of sport it becomes next.
That is what Issue 18 is about.
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