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How to Create a Pickleball Tournament

Thursday, 06 December 2018

Trevor Meier

Featured Blogs

Have you ever wanted to run your own pickleball tournament? At Global Pickleball Network, we give you all the tools you need to create a pickleball tournament in just a few minutes. Here are just a few of the features our pickleball tournament software offers: Run a singles or doubles tournament Single or double elimination Any brack...

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How to Find a Pickleball Court

Friday, 19 October 2018

Trevor Meier

Pickleball Courts Featured Blogs

One of the most difficult aspects of playing pickleball isn't actually the sport itself. It is finding a place to play. Global Pickleball Network has created a great tool for finding and submitting pickleball courts. Check out this short video showing how to search for a pickleball court near you. Once you are ready, go here ...

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Our Favorite Pickleball Facilities in America

Tuesday, 16 October 2018

Landon Meier

Pickleball Locations Featured Blogs

The growing popularity of pickleball has resulted in the development of some amazing facilities throughout the United States. Here are four of our favorites: Little Valley Pickleball Complex About: The facility hosts a variety of pickleball events including lessons, clinics, leagues, youth pickleball, and tournaments; they have hosted the USAP...

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Rules of Pickleball

Monday, 15 October 2018

Landon Meier

Pickleball Instructions Featured Blogs

Pickleball is a simple paddle game played using a special perforated, slow-moving ball over a tennis-type net on a badminton-sized court. The following is an abbreviated form of the rules to give you a quick overview of how the game is played. Click Here to see the official rules. Basic Rules Overview Pickleball is played either as...

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What is Pickleball?

Wednesday, 10 October 2018

Landon Meier

Featured Blogs

Pickleball is a paddle sport that combines many elements of tennis, badminton, and ping-pong into one fun and exciting game. It was invented in 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Washington by three dads - Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell, and Barney McCallum - in an effort to entertain their kids who were bored with their usual...

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Translators Needed for Global Pickleball Networks

Wednesday, 23 May 2018

Trevor Meier

GPN News

Did you know you can choose the language your network is displayed in? We currently support the following languages: Dutch English French German Polish Spanish Swedish The problem is, we need help making the translations. If you would like to help, just email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Once I approve of your r...

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Network Groups

Friday, 30 March 2018

Trevor Meier

GPN News

We recently added a new feature to networks called "Groups". A group is a simple way to organize groups of members within your network. For example, we use groups to organize players in our official New York City pickleball network. Since New York City is such a vast area, we created a group for all 5 boroughs. Your network ...

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Network Member Points

Monday, 05 March 2018

Trevor Meier

GPN News

We just released a new feature for the networks that awards "network points" for winning, or losing matches within any of the network's ladders, leagues or tournaments. In a way, it is like a network wide pickleball ladder. The default settings awards 100 points for a win, and 10 points for a loss during the last 365 days....

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Pickleball Ladder Challenge Updates

Saturday, 09 September 2017

Trevor Meier

Pickleball Ladders GPN News

To help make arranging a pickleball ladder match easier, you can now propose up to 3 different date and times when submitting a challenge. The challenged team/player, can then choose any one of the proposals while accepting the challenge. We have also added the ability for the challenger to update an unplayed challenge...

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The Calculated Playing Levels of GPN

Saturday, 02 September 2017

Trevor Meier

GPN News

Every pickleball match you play on Global Pickleball Network, whether it be a league, tournament or even practice match, gets used to calculate your singles or doubles playing level. This helps you accurately assess your singles and doubles playing levels, and also find opponents with a similar playing level. Playing Level...

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