PWR and NPL have at the moment confirmed a partnership that establishes NPL because the unique and official match and league supplier for the Oceania area in 2025. By this partnership, NPL’s leagues and tournaments will now be a part of the PWR construction, permitting NPL gamers to earn factors in the direction of their PWR rating and help in qualifying for the PWR World Collection.
PWR is dwelling to the newly created Pickleball World Rankings, together with the PWR World Tour and PWR World Collection. As a unified world rating system, PWR provides a transparent path for pickleball gamers to earn rating factors by competing in regional occasions. Gamers accumulate factors by the PWR World Tour and might qualify for the PWR World Collection.
NPL, the main pickleball organisation in Australia, runs the flagship Skilled Groups League (NPL ProTour) and knowledgeable match circuit.
The precise level construction for NPL Australia tournaments can be introduced later in 2024, however all occasions will fall below PWR’s established classes: PWR50, PWR100, PWR200, PWR400, PWR700, PWR1000, and PWR2000.
PWR is a partnership between The Occasions Group, the information and leisure chief in India and Pickleball League Asia Non-public Restricted. PWR, the PWR World Collection, and the PWR World Tour have been launched in Dubai in July’2024, with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) introduced because the host area for the primary PWR World Collection.
PWR had additionally not too long ago introduced PWR DUPR Indian Tour & League, a grand pickleball tour and league for India. The previous World No. 1 tennis participant Andre Agassi will go to India in January 2025 to formally flag off the PWR DUPR Indian Tour & League.
Ron Shell, CEO of NPL, mentioned: “We’re thrilled to companion with PWR for 2025 and assist their vital funding within the world pickleball ecosystem. PWR’s imaginative and prescient for the game is extremely thrilling, offering our gamers with the chance to be a part of a worldwide motion whereas nonetheless having fun with regional competitors. The introduction of a unified, worldwide rating pathway is precisely what has been lacking. We stay up for delivering top-tier Oceania leagues and tournaments in 2025, serving to gamers progress of their skilled pickleball careers.”
Vineet Jain, Managing Director of The Occasions Group, mentioned: “The imaginative and prescient of PWR is to unify the worldwide pickleball group and drive the expansion of pickleball in world markets. The partnership with NPL is a step in that route and we’re excited to companion with them”
Pranav Kohli, CEO of PWR, added: “Australia is a key marketplace for the expansion of PWR within the Oceania area. We’re excited to collaborate with Ron, David, and all the NPL Australia crew. This partnership is a serious step in PWR’s world enlargement.”
About Pickleball World Rankings (PWR): PWR is a unified world rating system that gives a structured pathway for pickleball gamers to earn factors, enhance their rankings, and qualify for the PWR World Collection by the PWR World Tour, which takes place in numerous areas. PWR tournaments are tiered equally to ATP and WTA occasions, with classes together with PWR100, PWR200, PWR400, PWR700, PWR1000, and PWR2000.
