Punta Gorda PPA Challenger

The PPA Challenger series is a Professional and Amateur Pickleball series that will have stops all across the country in 2025.

The PPA Challenger series is open to anyone!

Each event will offer skill divisions 3.0 through 5.0 as well as a Pro Division. Competitors in the Pro Division will be awarded points based on how they finish. Each PPA Challenger Pro Tournament awards 125 PPA Tour ranking points to the 1st-place winner in men’s and women’s pro singles, men’s and women’s pro doubles, and mixed pro doubles. The 2025 PPA Challenger Tour calendar includes 20 tournaments across 18 states.

As a global governing body of men’s and women’s professional pickleball, the PPA Tour’s mission is to serve pickleball. We entertain millions of spectators and inspire the next generation of fans and players.

With a deep commitment to fostering growth and development within the pickleball community, the PPA Tour Challenger Series Powered by JOOLA aims to nurture emerging talent, encourage amateur player participation, and ultimately elevate pickleball to new heights. Bringing together the power of the PPA Tour brand with the grassroots energy and passion of amateur pickleball players, the Challenger Series creates more opportunity for amateur play and an avenue for players across America to break into professional pickleball and earn their way onto the Carvana PPA Tour.

Amateur matches will be played alongside Championship Court where the best up and coming professionals in the world compete for the cash prizes and ranking points in the sport of pickleball.

You may also like the following events from PPA Challenger Series:

• Next month, 27th June, 08:00 am, Rochester PPA Challenger in Greece
• This August, 1st August, 08:00 am, Edwardsville PPA Challenger in Troy
• This August, 22nd August, 08:00 am, Fairfield PPA Challenger in Fairfield

Also check out other Sports events in Punta Gorda.