Top Seeds Win Out To Finish The Pro Pickleball Association Season At The Tour Finals

BusinessSportsMoneyTop Seeds Win Out To Finish The Pro Pickleball Association Season At The Tour FinalsByTodd Boss,Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Todd Boss writes about Pickleball, the fastest growing sport in USAFollow AuthorMay 11, 2026, 08:49am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.Anna Bright (L) and Anna Leigh Waters (R) finish off a fantastic season together by winning the Women's Doubles title in San Clemente.PPAThe long 2025-26 Professional Pickleball Association (PPA) season finally came to a close last weekend with the 2026 Toys R’ Us Tour Finals, held in everyone’s favorite site the Life Time fitness in San Clemente, California. The tour’s best were on hand competing in a unique group stage format that guaranteed semi-finals quality matches or better with every match, and several finals were featured on national TV over the weekend.By the time the event wrapped up, all five top seeds came out on top of their respective divisions, a fitting end to a season that has really seen the top players and teams differentiate themselves throughout the grind of the 20+ events. Click here for the PickleballTournaments.com home page for the event, where you can get tournament details, draw sheets, and results.Click here for my Preview, which had the partner draft results, the pools detailed, and my predictions. Notes on predictions: I predicted all five winners, essentially by taking all five top seeds, but got none of the finalists correct.A Reminder of the format of the Tour Finals: each of the eight qualifying players (in singles) or teams (in doubles) were divided into two preliminary pools for round robin play. These pools were seeded somewhat at random. The top two players/teams advanced to the semis, where a brief knockout round was played. Below we’ll review each of the group stages, then summarize the knockouts. MORE FOR Y...