Tour Finals PPA-500 Draws Offer A Glimpse Into The Future Of The Tour With Tama And Kiora Wins
This year, instead of just having a small top-pro only draw for its Tour Finals event, the Professional Pickleball Association (PPA) ran an entire amateur tournament as well as a 500-level pro event to get some of its tour players another opportunity to hit the courts and fulfil contractual obligations. Nearly 1,600 players participated in the Tour Finals event as a result, which helped pack the stands and give the non-qualifying touring pros an event to play to help fill their schedules. This is a quick recap of the 500-level event, which in my Medal Tracker I have included into the PPA Challenger section (for lack of a better place to put it). There was also a full slate of Senior Pro events which well briefly cover at the end, which are on the Senior Medal Tracker. We‘ve already covered the Tour Finals component, where the tour’s top players competed for its season-ending championship and which featured a clean sweep of all five No. 1 seeds. With that said, lets recap the action. Mens Pro Singles Recap The Mens Singles draw featured a slew of singles specialists who have had deep runs in PPA events in the past, names like Zane Ford, Michael Loyd,








