Naples, FL – March 21, 2023 – Pickleball4America, a newly fashioned firm centered on growing companies round America’s quickest rising sport, made a collection of bulletins as we speak highlighted by its merger with the US Open Pickleball Championships®, the launch of a Ballpark Pageant Collection™ and the closure of its preliminary spherical of funding.
The US Open Pickleball Championships attracts extra gamers and spectators than some other occasion within the sport. This 12 months, “The Greatest Pickleball Get together within the World®,” will likely be held April 15-22 in Naples, FL with a document variety of professional and beginner contributors from around the globe anticipated to compete for the game’s most coveted championship title.
The Ballpark Pageant Collection will launch later this 12 months with two of baseball’s most iconic shrines, Fenway Park in Boston and Oracle Park in San Francisco, headlining the schedule. These occasions will characteristic skilled and beginner match competitions in addition to open play. Extra particulars will likely be introduced within the coming weeks, together with further venues, dates, and prize cash. Fenway Sports activities Administration, a worldwide sports activities administration firm, is engaged as a strategic advisor to Pickleball4America on the Ballpark Pageant Collection and nationwide sponsorship.
Funding for Pickleball4America is led by a notable roster of sports activities and know-how traders together with Boston Seed Capital LLC, Drive by DraftKings, RA Bowman LLC, Adam, Larry and Jared Franklin, Cowboy Up Investments, Checketts Companions and Knudsen Capital LLC.
The US Open Pickleball Championships was based in 2015 by Terri Graham and Chris Evon who be part of Pickleball4America as a part of the merger and can proceed to function the occasion. It attracts over 3,000 beginner {and professional} gamers yearly. The match is held each April in partnership with Collier County on the 65-court, state-of-the-art pickleball facility at East Naples Group Park.
“We’re thrilled to combine the US Open Pickleball Championships into Pickleball4America,” mentioned Mike Dee, investor, co-founder and Chairman. “We thank Terri and Chris for his or her confidence in us as that they had many choices. In the long run it was a shared imaginative and prescient all of us have for the way forward for this sport that introduced us collectively. We stay up for constructing upon this wonderful occasion working with the lots of of volunteers, authorities, and civic leaders and naturally the contributors and spectators who collectively mix to make Naples the capital of the pickleball universe.”
“It has been very clear to each me and Terri that Pickleball4America is totally aligned with our perception that beginner play is the lifeblood of this sport,” mentioned Evon. ”We stay up for working collectively to deliver the sport to much more gamers.”
“We care deeply about the way forward for pickleball and the US Open’s distinctive place in its material. Pickleball4America is the proper accomplice to assist us construct upon the Open’s eight-year legacy as the game’s most significant occasion for each skilled and beginner gamers,” added Graham.
