Naples, FL – March 21, 2023 – Pickleball4America, a newly shaped firm targeted on creating companies round America’s quickest rising sport, made a collection of bulletins at present 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 Largest Pickleball Social gathering within the World®,” shall be held April 15-22 in Naples, FL with a report variety of professional and novice individuals 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 novice match competitions in addition to open play. Extra particulars shall be introduced within the coming weeks, together with further venues, dates, and prize cash. Fenway Sports activities Administration, a world 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 a part of Pickleball4America as a part of the merger and can proceed to function the occasion. It attracts over 3,000 novice {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,” stated Mike Dee, investor, co-founder and Chairman. “We thank Terri and Chris for his or her confidence in us as they’d many choices. Ultimately it was a shared imaginative and prescient all of us have for the way forward for this sport that introduced us collectively. We sit up for constructing upon this superb occasion working with the lots of of volunteers, authorities, and civic leaders and naturally the individuals 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 absolutely aligned with our perception that novice play is the lifeblood of this sport,” stated Evon. ”We sit up for working collectively to carry 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 associate to assist us construct upon the Open’s eight-year legacy as the game’s most significant occasion for each skilled and novice gamers,” added Graham.
