The Carvana PPA Tour announced on Wednesday the launch of the World Pickleball Rankings (WPR), a first-of-its-kind system designed to identify the best overall professional pickleball players on the planet. 

Debuting with the 2026–27 season, the World Pickleball Rankings brings every PPA event around the world under one unified, global leaderboard — giving players, fans, and media a single, definitive answer to the question: Who is the best pickleball player in the world?

Unlike traditional rankings built around a single discipline, the World Pickleball Rankings is a composite measure of a player’s performance across all three: gender doubles, mixed doubles, and singles. Results are weighted to reflect the modern professional game [gender doubles at 50%, mixed doubles at 35%, and singles at 15%] and are drawn from each player’s 14 best results over the trailing 52 weeks. The system rewards complete players: the ones who show up and compete everywhere, in every format.

At the heart of the ranking is a globally unified point system. Every PPA event, from PPA Challengers to international stops to the sport’s biggest Majors and the Pickleball World Championships, feeds into the same leaderboard, with points scaled to the size of each event. No matter where in the world a player competes, their results count toward the same ranking. One tour, one point system, one path to the top.

The World Pickleball Rankings will also shape the competitive season itself, informing event entries, byes for the top-ranked players and teams, and qualification for the season-ending PPA Finals, where the top eight men and top eight women compete across all three disciplines to be crowned PPA Finals Champion.

“Greatness isn’t one-dimensional. The World Pickleball Rankings is about clarity and credibility - one number and one global standard, that tells the story of who the best players in the world truly are,” said Connor Pardoe, Founder and CEO of the Carvana PPA Tour. “As pickleball grows into a truly global sport, our athletes deserve a ranking that matches that ambition and rewards greatness across every discipline, everywhere they play.”

For more information on how the WPR works, visit: How Pro Pickleball Works.

Introducing “BE THE BEST.”

Alongside the new ranking, the Carvana PPA Tour is unveiling “BE THE BEST.”, a new rallying cry for the PPA Tour and its community. The Carvana PPA Tour showcases elite athletes with unique personalities within the greatest community in sports on an unrivaled global stage. BE THE BEST. was developed to capture that identity in a single, unifying idea that speaks to everyone the Tour touches, from world-class professionals to the millions of amateurs around the world who love the game.

The message was built to be inclusive and aspirational rather than presumptuous: everyone, at every level, has their own “best” to chase. BE THE BEST. will come to life across the Carvana PPA Tour experience, appearing on-site at PPA events through both professional and amateur touchpoints, and extending into the Tour’s marketing and merchandise.

“BE THE BEST. is more than a tagline, it’s an invitation,” said Jeff Watson, SVP, Marketing and Communications, Carvana PPA Tour. “Whether you’re competing for a world title or stepping onto a court for the first time, the challenge is the same: be your best. Paired with the World Pickleball Rankings, it gives every player in our community something to strive for.”