Video thumbnail — Major League Pickleball (official)The New Jersey Fives beat the hometown Texas Ranchers 3-1 to take the top seed in Group B at 2026 MLP Austin and stretch their match-win streak to 10 in a row, with Anna Leigh Waters in the lineup.
Video thumbnail — Major League Pickleball (official)The Columbus Sliders closed out the Miami Pickleball Club 3-1 to lock up the top seed in Group A at 2026 MLP Austin, with Andrei Daescu sealing the win.
Group play wrapped in Austin with both unbeatens on a collision course. The Columbus Sliders (4-0) and New Jersey 5s (5-0) meet in Sunday's #1 matchup with 25 standings points going to the winner.
The full-bag debate boiled over in MLP mixed: Jansen refused the paddle tap and exchanged words with Devilliers after he tagged her partner Nico Acevedo.
The former championship-Sunday mic is done living out of a suitcase, she told Pickleballers, though she left herself room for a nostalgia cameo or two.
After Zane Navratil says he laid into Hayden’s Columbus showing, Hayden’s response was not exactly a notes-app apology: “I needed some [ __ ] fire.” Then, per Navratil, he showed up and went 10-0.
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