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This list of professional pickleball players includes players who currently, or have in the past, played in professional pickleball tournaments.
Professional pickleball tours and leagues:
| Name | Native Country | Hometown | DOB & Age | Height | Dom Hand | Turned pro | Pro Pickleball Tours & Leagues | Other Sports Background | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohaned Alhouni |  Libya | Tripoli | 1996 (age 28–29) | 6 ft 14 in (2.18 m) | Left | 2024 | PPA | Tennis (Gustavus Adolphus College) | |
| Mota Alhouni | Libya | Tripoli | 1992 (age 32–33) | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | Right | 2024 | PPA | Tennis (Gustavus Adolphus College) | |
| Julian Arnold |  United States | San Luis Obispo, CA | March 3, 1999 | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | Right | 2022 | PPA | Tennis (UCLA) | [1] |
| Dekel Bar |  Israel | Ra'anana | March 15, 1993 | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | Right | 2018 | PPA | Tennis | [2] [3] |
| Andrei Daescu |  Romania | Bucharest | August 28, 1988 | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | Right | 2022 | PPA | Tennis (University of Oklahoma) | |
| Ryler DeHeart | United States | Tampa, FL | January 3, 1984 | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | Left | 2022 | Tennis (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) | [4] | |
| Jay Devilliers |  France | Rosny-sous-Bois | December 18, 1994 | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | Right | 2020 | Tennis (Wichita State University) | [5] | |
| Dylan Frazier | United States | Ashland, MO | December 8, 2001 | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | Right | 2021 | Baseball | [6] [7] | |
| James Ignatowich | United States | Darien, CT | May 5, 2000 | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | Right | 2022 | Tennis (Vanderbilt University) | [8] | |
| Ben Johns | United States | Gaithersburg, MD | March 18, 1999 | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | Right | 2016 | |||
| Collin Johns | United States | Columbus, OH | June 15, 1993 | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | Right | 2018 | Tennis, Table Tennis, Baseball | [9] [10] [11] | |
| Hunter Johnson | United States | Taos, NM | June 2, 1994 | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | Right | 2018 | Tennis (Southern Methodist University) | [12] | |
| JW Johnson (John Wayne Johnson) | United States | Pittsburgh, KS | July 4, 2003 | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | Right | 2020 | Tennis | [13] | |
| CJ Klinger (Carson Klinger) | United States | Granville, OH | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | Left | 2023 | PPA | Tennis, Table Tennis | [14] | |
| Tyson McGuffin | United States | Chelan, WA | December 16, 1989 | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | Right | 2016 | Tennis (Scottsdale Community College), Wrestling | [15] | |
| Altaf Merchant |  India | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | Right | Tennis (Southern Illinois University) | |||||
| Zane Navratil | United States | Racine, WI | November 2, 1995 | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | Right | 2020 | Tennis | ||
| Hayden Patriquin | United States | Yucaipa, CA | September 20, 2006 | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | Right | 2022 | Baseball | [16] | |
| Jack Sock | United States | Lincoln, NE | September 24, 1992 | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | Right | 2024 | Tennis (University of Nebraska) | ||
| Federico Staksrud |  Argentina | Buenos Aires | October 15, 1996 | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | Right | 2021 | Tennis (University of New Orleans) | [17] | |
| Gabriel Tardio |  Bolivia | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | Right | 2022 | Tennis | ||||
| Pablo Tellez |  Colombia | Bogotá | June 4, 1995 | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | Left | 2022 | Tennis (University of West Florida) | [18] [19] | |
| Pesa Teoni |  American Samoa | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | Right | 2023 | PPA | Soccer, Volleyball, Rugby | |||
| Thomas Wilson | United States | San Antonio, TX | February 7, 1990 | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | Right | 2020 | PPA | Tennis (Purdue University, University of Texas) | [20] |
| Matt Wright | United States | 1977 (age 47–48) | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | Right | 2016 | PPA | Tennis (University of Michigan) | ||
| Danny Wuerffel | United States | Pensacola, FL | May 27, 1974 | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | MLP, NPL | American football (University of Florida, NFL) | [21] |
| Name [22] | Native Country | Hometown | DOB & Age | Height | Dom Hand | Turned pro | Pro Pickleball Tour(s) | Other Sports Background | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hurricane Tyra Black | United States | Boca Raton, FL | March 2, 2001 | Right | [23] | ||||
| Anna Bright | United States | Fort Worth, TX | October 8, 1999 | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | Right | 2022 | Tennis (UC Berkeley) | [24] | |
| Eugenie Bouchard |  Canada | Montreal | February 25, 1994 | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | Right | 2024 | Tennis | ||
| Kaitlyn Christian | United States | Orange, CA | January 13, 1992 | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | Right | 2024 | [25] | ||
| Salome Devidze |  Georgia | Tbilisi | January 2, 1986 | Right | 2022 | ||||
| Meghan Dizon | United States | Murrieta, CA | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | Right | 2021 | ||||
| Jessie Irvine | United States | Cary, NC | June 22, 1989 | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | Right | 2019 | PPA | Tennis, Paddle tennis | [26] |
| Lea Jansen | United States | Valleyford, WA | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | Right | 2022 | PPA | Tennis (Washington State University) | [27] | |
| Simone Jardim |  Brazil | Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul | November 7, 1979 | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | Right | 2015 | [28] | ||
| Allyce Jones | United States | Pleasant Grove, UT | October 25, 1987 | 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) | Right | 2021 | PPA | Softball, Tennis, Volleyball (Utah Valley University) | [29] |
| Lucy Kovalova |  Slovakia | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | Right | 2015 | |||||
| Catherine Parenteau | Canada | Montreal | August 26, 1994 | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | Right | 2016 | |||
| Tina Pisnik |  Slovenia | Maribor | February 19, 1981 | 5 ft 7.5 in (1.71 m) | Right | 2022 | [30] | ||
| Rachel Rohrabacher | United States | Tampa, FL | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) | Right | 2023 | Tennis | [31] | ||
| Callie Jo Smith | United States | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | Right | 2021 | Tennis | [32] | |||
| Anna Leigh Waters | United States | Delray Beach, FL | January 26, 2007 | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | Right | 2019 | [33] | ||
| Etta Wright |  New Zealand | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | Right | 2022 | Tennis | [34] |
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