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League Software Finally Created Specifically for Pickleball Pickleball Magazine partners with tennis giant to introduce state-of-the-art software for leagues, ladders, events and more. I BY MARK BERTON n the past eight years, pickleball has grown to more than 3 million players worldwide. Of that number, only 30,000 players are official members of the USAPA, leaving roughly 2.97 million people playing pickleball socially at local clubs, YMCAs or other public courts. There’s certainly nothing wrong with playing socially, but it does have one significant drawback—your game does not carry rankings such as those in USAPA-sanctioned play. With PickleballScores. com, that’s all changing, and casual, unaffiliated players everywhere stand to benefit. This gap between organized tournaments and social play was so profound that Pickleball Magazine approached Tenniscores.com—the largest software platform for tennis and platform tennis leagues in North America with over 600,000 league members. The goal was to see if they could work their magic for pickleball. “We approached them last spring, asking if they’d be interested in developing a platform for leagues, round robins, flex leagues, events, and tournaments for local clubs,” said Wayne Dollard, publisher of Pickleball 32 Magazine. “Nancy Biggs, who owns Tenniscores.com and brings over 20 years of software experience, was very excited about the opportunity to partner and launch a new platform to fill this void.” Pickleballscores.com is the new platform fully loaded with every module a local organizer could need to run successful events from round robins to tournaments. The organizer can charge whatever they like for their events and pay just a small fee per registration to Pickleballscores.com. While Pickleball Magazine has been approached by numerous providers looking to get into this business, PickleballScores.com was far and away our top choice, meeting our stringent requirements and demands for an avid, nationwide pickleball community. “The PickleballScores.com software is simply amazing and fulfills all of the needs of our pickleball friends without being difficult to learn,” Dollard said. “It’s an easy-to-use interface that gives players the ability to track their ratings and organize their play without having to deal with a steep learning curve.” TO SUBSCRIBE CALL 888.308.3720 OR GO TO THEPICKLEBALLMAG.COM