USA Pickleball, the Nationwide Governing Physique for the game of pickleball, and the Carvana Skilled Pickleball Affiliation (PPA Tour), immediately introduced that the 2023 USA Pickleball Nationwide Championships will formally transfer from the Indian Wells Tennis Backyard in Indian Wells, California to the Brookhaven Nation Membership in Dallas. The Nationwide Championships, which can now be introduced by the PPA Tour, will happen Nov. 4-12 as initially scheduled. Moreover, prime beginner gamers throughout the nation will now have extra alternatives to qualify as a consequence of USA Pickleball’s addition of three new Golden Ticket occasions designated on the PPA Tour calendar for the primary time.
The 2023 Nationwide Championships will signify the world’s largest-ever pickleball event and facility, serving an expanded discipline of greater than 3,500 beginner {and professional} gamers —a 50 p.c enhance over the occasion’s capability in 2022— using as much as 65 courts. The general 2023 prize cash for skilled divisions will likely be revealed later this yr, however will exceed the 2022 whole of $150,000, making it the most important prize purse within the event’s historical past. Whole occasion attendees are estimated to achieve 25,000. Whereas the Nationwide Championships stays USA Pickleball-owned, the PPA Tour will help occasion operations and logistics.
