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PPA Pickleball Tour 2025: Almost 50 million play pickleball. Will they try the video game?

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By Jacob Jackson

Launching this week, PPA Pickleball Tour 2025 seeks to increase the sport’s fan base.

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In America, pickleball has grown to be one of the most well-liked team sports quite quickly. Is it about to become the next big thing in video games?

In collaboration with the Professional Pickleball Association, a national organizer of events, game developer FarSight Studios is introducing the PPA Pickleball Tour 2025. Even though it’s not the first pickleball game available, it is an attempt to promote the game to both casual and competitive players alike.

The purpose of the game is to increase the visibility of professional pickleball and pro pickleball players. A 2023 survey estimates that 48.3 million Americans had played pickleball at least once in the preceding year.

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In particular, the PPA wants to generate some excitement for individuals who compete in the sport for financial gain. The top five professionals can make an average of $1.5 million annually, according to PPA spokesperson Jeff Watson, and the sport is broadcast on multiple networks, including ESPN and different streaming services.

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PPA Pickleball Tour 2025, which will retail for $49.99 and be accessible on several platforms, is essentially trying to emulate Madden NFL, the EA Sports pro football game that has established a mainstay in the gaming industry.

“Our goal was to create a game that highlights the finest features of actual pickleball,” Bobby King, vice president of FarSight Studios.

In the pickleball community, the PPA game is being warmly welcomed by players who believe it can elevate the already challenging game.

Overview of the 2023 PPA Tour Finals

We want for the game to highlight the finest features of actual pickleball.

— FarSight Studios Vice President Bobby King

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Pickleball is already a popular game, according to Mary Cannon, co-founder of CityPickle, a business that rents out pickleball courts in New York City and is growing into other areas. They may now “take that fixation to their screens,” she said.

Given the popularity of gaming, Tyler Wren, the man behind Rev Pickleball equipment company and a former PPA player, believes that PPA Pickleball Tour 2025 will give pickleball some further respectability.

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Wren said: “It will make the dynamics of the sport easier for customers to understand.”

Pickleball is a game that, according to players, is as much about strategy as it is about pure athleticism, which contributes to its appeal to players of all ages. According to King, FarSight Studios created the PPA Pickleball Tour 2025 by monitoring the moves of the top 16 players, enabling players to digitally face off against them one-on-one.

According to Mat Piscatella, an analyst at market research firm Circana that monitors the gaming sector, it’s too soon to predict how the public would react to a new pickleball game. He pointed out that only 11,000 people have viewed the game’s teaser on YouTube, indicating that the PPA Pickleball Tour hasn’t generated much interest yet. On the other hand, millions of people have watched the trailers for some of the most anticipated titles.

Piscatella said of the new pickleball game. “We’ll have to wait and see how it launches,”

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