The Affiliation of Pickleball Gamers (APP) has introduced a daring evolution of its 2026 APP Tour construction. This plan is particularly designed to raise the participant, sponsor, and fan expertise throughout the game and focuses on bigger occasions—every that includes expanded prize purses, enhanced fan experiences, and extra linear TV broadcast hours all through 2026. This evolution goals to bolster the APP’s status as probably the most credible identify in pickleball. Total, the APP will run or help greater than 50 occasions in 2026, together with the total APP Tour, plus the World Pickleball Alliance’s (GPA) worldwide match calendar.
In 2026, the APP Tour will characteristic the next skilled prize pool, enhanced and interactive fan experiences for gamers of all ranges, and expanded hospitality and activation zones for followers and sponsors. Crucially, the APP Tour will enhance the variety of hours of nationally televised occasion broadcasts, guaranteeing APP companions and gamers proceed to get pleasure from excessive visibility and broadcast attain throughout the nation. Moreover, the APP will introduce a minimal of 4 APP professional invitational occasions that may characteristic the most effective professional gamers on the planet competing for main prize cash.
“This can be a decisive step ahead for the APP and for the game of pickleball,” stated APP Founder, Ken Herrmann. “By investing in bigger, extra premium occasions with extra linear TV protection, we’re capable of ship larger influence for our gamers, our sponsors, and the followers who’ve made the APP Tour group so particular. Each cease on the 2026 schedule will really feel like a real celebration of pickleball.”
“The mixed may of the APP and GPA schedules offers professional gamers with the flexibility to maximise their earnings and visibility in international locations worldwide, whereas persevering with to help the game’s world progress,” Herrmann continued.
Ryan McSpadden, APP Chief Income Officer, added, “Our information reveals that followers are looking for greater, festival-style pickleball experiences, and our sponsors are eagre for much more impactful on-site and broadcast alternatives by their partnerships with the APP. This shift delivers precisely that, a extra concentrated, highly effective platform for progress.”
The APP’s 2026 nationally televised calendar will encompass:
*2026 APP Tour tournaments are set in boldface.
Further particulars on the total 2026 APP occasion schedule can be found at TheAPP.world. The pickleball group can keep within the know on the newest APP updates by following the APP’s Instagram, X, Threads, TikTok, Fb and LinkedIn channels.
