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I feel completely duped.....In April I bought PPA Tour Virginia Beach tickets for my wife's birthday...Obviously, She was hyped beyond belief........At the time all the PPA Tour pros were signed up - ALW, Anna Bright, Ben Johns, Tardio, Shimabukuro, Alshon, etc..... Just earlier in Oct, I logged in again, just to be sure, and noticed the brackets were posted, but NONE of the pros were there - actually, a few are still there, but the lower tier pros...... And still to this day, PPA Tour is advertising that BJ and ALW are coming....I saw a few more posts like mine from upset spectators.... I get it that they've been playing every week for the past three weeks, but after VB their next major tournament isn't until Nov....what gives?

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I don't wear caps until when I started playing pickleball. I sweat a lot. I have a cap that has permanent sweat stains that cannot be washed off any more.

Of course, washing after each play is one extreme but not practical or realistic imo. I am wondering if there is a sweet spot on the number of wears or amount of time that can prevent permanent staining. Surely washing something like weekly would be a good compromise, but I am just curious what other people do.

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Would it be bush league to use a lime green overgrip? I’d never wear that color clothes to play since it’s so close to the ball color but wondered if the overgrip would matter. It’s just a color that I like. I play rec and local tournaments.

I played against better players today, and they argued that their serve was in when I said it was in the kitchen. My partner said he didn’t see it which I find a little odd…

The same thing happened again for our winning point when I asked my partner if one of their shots was out and he said he wasn’t sure again. (I did not call it out since my partner did not say anything about it.)

Do 3.5+ players usually know whether their shots are in or out?

I’m in town for the day looking for 4.5+ games - was checking out a few local spots but couldn’t find anything.

Any recommendations? Down to hop in a game today if anybody needs a 4th/5th!

If it doesn’t happen oh well but thought I’d try

My club has decided they are going to do almost all day $5 drop in play. ACE is known for members only and all inclusive, they value experience and as much as possible try to have short lines.

Some rude people came in today and wanted the court we were playing on. They said it was their court but they didn't reserve it and there wasn't anyone on it and there weren't any paddles stacked. We just continued to use it. They came back with a group of six and started aggressively yelling at us and saying "there's people waiting." But they had come back after like 20 minutes and no one was waiting and when we pointed out that there was a stack (all the courts have it and they had been playing on other courts so they knew about it) they all stacked their paddles and said they were taking over the court and laughed.

We were fine walking off since there was actually a stack but it was so aggressive and off putting. They were all $5 drop in group.

While walking the club we only recognized one other person as a member. Everyone else, all ~80 were drop ins.

We feel so sad that the manager has decided to go against the policy of the franchise and put all the members through the worst experience. I think it's a lack of cash flow.

The club opened in April and they started with the drop ins in July. Every month the hours for drop in expand. The manager is always cranky and sometimes when we are playing him and staff come and drop a dozen balls in our court while we are actively playing. It's really mean and I don't know why we are targeted.

What's happening to Ben? He has not been as dominanting as before. Is his time over?

Hey friends,

So I’ve been noticing recently a lot of people’s current dupr rating is significantly lower than what their previous game says it went up/down to. Obviously it’s to keep their rating low to play in tournaments/moneyballs at that rating. My question is, how is that possible? Is there a loophole dupr doesn’t know about that lets you input scores and have them deleted but keep the rating?

For context: someone’s dupr is a 3.9 but their last score inputted had them at a 4.3

Played the APP tourney in Columbus this weekend. Mens doubles on Saturday went well, had a great time and good vibe at the event venue. Then on Sunday played mixed - they merged like 4 brackets together so we were the weakest and oldest team in the bracket, but oh well we decided to play anyway. Start time was 11am, but didn't get a text to start the first match until after 12noon, as we were about to start the ref said my paddle, 11six24 Vapor Power2, wasn't APP approved. This was the same paddle I played with the previous day and 5 different refs had no problem with it. Our opponents said "let's just play," but the ref had to call the head ref over who then "impounded" my paddle - said I could get it back as I was leaving the premises... wtf seriously? So I was pissed and flustered and asked if I could have some time to get some touches with another paddle, which the ref responded to with "We start in 30 seconds!" Anyway, I didn't know the difference between the different types of approvals but apparently the paddle is UPA-A approved, but not USAP, which is true for various of the smaller paddle companies because they don't want to pay for extra certifications. I don't get what APP gets from enforcing this so strictly at the amateur level, and having the paddle impounded and the way the refs handled it ruined the tourney and soured me on APP. I've played maybe 25 tourneys including MLP and some other tourneys with refs and never had any issues (and to be fair, all other refs seemed totally cool). It also took 3 1/2 hours to play 4 matches.

Hello! I’m 26 m looking to find a casual group or place I can join near Laguna hills or OC area. I visited family and it reminded me how much I enjoy just playing for fun. From my quick research, I’m a 3.0 player. I can do easy serves consistently and make decent shots here and there. If you have a group I could join, or know a place, I’d appreciate hearing from you!