by Sfapickleball | Jan 29, 2024 | All-Access, Ben Johns, CIBC PPA Tour Finals 2023, Collin Johns, Featured Player, Finals, gold medals, hyundai master, Hyundai Masters 2024, pickleball, pickleball 2024, pickleball masters, PPA, ppa 2024, ppa tour, ppa tour 2024, Riley Newman, Thomas Wilson
Ben and Collin Johns beating Riley Newman and Thomas Wilson to win the Men’s Doubles gold medals at the PPA Finals in December and again at the Masters in January was the same, but different. In both gold medal matches, the Johns brothers won in four games, losing the...
by Sfapickleball | Jan 24, 2024 | Ben Johns, best pickleball players, Championship, Collin Johns, Featured Player, johns brothers, men's doubles, pickleball, PPA, ppa 2024, ppa tour, ppa tour 2024
It is one thing to stay on top. It is another thing to get better while you stay on top. That is what Ben and Collin Johns did in Men’s Doubles in 2022 and 2023. Here are three examples of that: Gold medals: In 2022, the Johns brothers won ten gold medals, and in 2023...
by Sfapickleball | Nov 10, 2023 | biofreeze, BioFreeze USA Pickleball National Championships 2023, Christian Alshon, day in the life, Featured Player, Finals, nationals, Paddles, pickleball, pickleball 2023, PPA, ppa 2023, ppa tour, Stream, usa pickleball national championships, USAP
On Thursday, Nov. 9, I spent the day with PPA Tour pro Christian Alshon. The seventh-ranked player in the world had a full schedule consisting of matches in every discipline – men’s singles, mixed doubles, and men’s doubles. Before hitting the court, Alshon began...
by Sfapickleball | Oct 30, 2023 | All-Access, Featured Player, Federico Staksrud, friends, instagram, ireland, Pablo Tellez, pickleball, pickleball 2023, PPA, ppa 2023, ppa tour, ppa tour 2023, Stream
Pablo Tellez and Federico Staksrud are best friends. They live about 15 minutes apart and are now long-standing pickleball partners and among the top pickleball teams in the world. They plan on being partners for all of 2024 on the PPA Tour. They recently chatted on...
by Sfapickleball | Oct 18, 2023 | Featured Player, pickleball, pickleball 2023, PPA, ppa 2023, ppa tour, ppa tour 2023, slovenia, tina pisnik, Tournament, wta tour
Tina Pisnik’s tennis days were over. It had been about 15 years since she last competed against some of the game’s best, wrapping up a career in which she was ranked among the top 30 women’s tennis players in the world. She had won a title on the WTA Tour, had...
by Sfapickleball | Oct 16, 2023 | Aanik Lohani, Championship, Featured Player, Finals, new player, Paddles, pickleball, PPA, ppa 2023, ppa tour, professional pickleball player, tennis, Tournament
In 2022, Aanik Lohani asked Ben Johns to take a picture with him. Lohani was an aspiring pickleball player, an ex-tennis player who had just won an amateur pickleball singles tournament in his home state of Minnesota, and Johns, well, you know – he’s the best player...
