How Many Tournaments Are There and Who Can Register to Play?
The PPA Challenger series is a Professional and Amateur Pickleball series that will have stops all across the country in 2025. Each event will offer skill divisions 3.0 through 5.0 as well as a Pro Division.
Competitors in the Pro Division will be awarded points based on how they finish. Each PPA Challenger Pro Tournament awards 125 PPA Tour ranking points to the 1st-place winner in men’s and women’s pro singles, men’s and women’s pro doubles, and mixed pro doubles. Each Challenger tournament will have a prize pool of $10k which will be split amongst medalists in the Pro Division. Additionally, winners of pro events will receive a wild card entry (WC) into a PPA Tour Open Main draw tournament of their choosing ( Maximum 2 WC’s winners per PPA Tour Open event ). PPA Tour Professionals ranked inside the top 20 of a division will not be eligible to compete in that division at PPA Challenger Tour events. The 2025 PPA Challenger Tour calendar includes 16 tournaments across 14 states.
How Do Player Rankings Work?
The PPA Challenger Rankings award professional players points based on their results at PPA Challenger tournaments. The deeper a player advances at a tournament, the more points they earn. Winners of each PPA Challenger event will receive entry into the main draw of one PPA Tour Open event!
The PPA Challenger Rankings are updated after each tournament and reflect points earned during the past 52 weeks of play (52 Week) and points earned during the current calendar year. Players top 16 finishing events will be counted towards their leaderboard ranking. Top finishing Pros will earn their spot in the “PPA Challenger Showdown in Dallas” where players will battle for a PPA Tour Contract.
Points Breakdown
How Are PPA Points Awarded?
PPA Points are awarded for men’s and women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles, and mixed doubles events as follows:
| 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place | 4th Place | Quarterfinalist | Round of 16 | Round of 32 | Round of 64 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Challenger 125 | 125 | 100 | 75 | 50 | 25 | 12 | 6 | 3 |
PPA Challenger Showdown In Dallas
Top 4 finishers in the 2025 Challenger rankings in each discipline battle for a Tour Contract.
Singles
- Top 4 qualify
- Semis: 1 plays 4, 2 plays 3
- Finals: two winners
- All matches best 2 out of 3
Mixed Doubles
- Top 4 men and women qualify.
- #1 male plays with #1 female, #2 male plays with #2 female, 3 and 3, 4 and 4.
Men’s/Women’s Doubles
- One match, best of 5
- #1 picks a partner of 2, 3, or 4.
- The other two are the second team.
For the showdown, you must choose one path, meaning if a player qualifies across multiple disciplines, they can only play in one of the Showdown draws, moving up the #5 players. The player will make that choice on the Monday after the final Challenger Event.
PPA Tour Challenger Series events will be played out in a traditional format with each discipline taking place on one day.
- Friday – Singles
- Saturday – Gender Doubles
- Sunday – MIxed Doubles
