All Issues Pickleball (ATP) in India has formally launched the Girls’s Premier Pickleball League (WPPL)—and because the identify suggests, this pickleball league shall be completely for girls. An initiative by the ATP, the WPPL shall be India’s first-of-its-kind skilled pickleball league devoted to girls.
The WPPL is particularly designed to empower girls pickleball gamers by offering them with a platform to compete professionally and the possibility to maneuver the needle on girls’s sports activities and produce the thrill of aggressive pickleball to a wider viewers—significantly in pickleball-crazy India.
“WPPL is constructed within the idea of Girls First, India’s First bandwidth. We wish folks to really feel delight, pleasure, and inspiration. We hope WPPL turns into capitalism to vary the stream of Indian sports activities,” stated Senthil Ram, Founding father of the WPPL through the league’s formal launch. “Encouraging extra girls gamers to take up pickleball, extra manufacturers to assist Girls’s league, and extra folks to consider in skilled girls sports activities. It’s not a aspect word of a bigger league. It’s a principal occasion.”
This primary-of-its-kind, one-of-a-kind league will function 10 franchise-owned groups of 5 girls gamers every. These 10 groups will then be competing in a high-energy, professionally managed format that can showcase the very best of what the ladies’s sport has to supply.
The primary season of the WPPL will happen in November 2025, and it guarantees to convey top-tier competitors to the ladies’s division. It is going to additionally function superstar involvement, with pickleball stars and celebrities anticipated to be a part of the match in some capability. It is going to even be run with a dedication to selling girls in sports activities at each grassroots {and professional} ranges.
