Waters lifts the 2024 Tour Finals cup, which was her (at the time) 31st Triple Crown. She now has 40, about a year onwards.
PPA
This is a quick PSA to the community to highlight some data additions I’ve made to the Pro Pickleball Medal Tracker online resource that I maintain.
I’ve recently built out two new sections of the tracker:
– PPA Challenger events starting in 2025.
– APP Next Events dating to 2021
This data is now located in the “PPA Challenger” and “APP Next” tabs on the spreadsheet. Special thanks to the APP Next staff for assisting with the data research, since many of these early APP Next Gen tournaments weren’t even run in a TMS system at the time.
I use this data to subsequently create aggregate reports of Medal counts, to allow such interesting analysis as last month’s “Top Gold Medal Winners on the PPA Tour in 2025” story, or the same analysis for the APP tour published in early January. This spreadsheet is how we know that Anna Leigh Waters surpassed 200 total medals at the Masters (while Ben Johns got right to the precipice, sitting at 199 career Medals after his two-gold tournament). And, now, we know there’s been a handful of triple crowns won in the Challenger/Next Gen events that warrant mention.
What is the Pro Pickleball Medal Tracker? Its a multi-tabbed spreadsheet online that has the Gold, Silver, and Bronze medal winners for every pro pickleball tournament that’s ever been held. I’ve been maintaining this resource since well before pickleball.com or picklewave.com had searchable, reliable databases for the pro tours, and the resource still has Medal tracking for things that still aren’t available on these websites (like Senior competitions, International data, and to my knowledge the newly added Challenger/Next Gen events).
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The Spreadsheet has the following comprehensive Medal data:
– PPA Pro Medals from Feb 2020 to today
– PPA International events in Australia and Asia, starting with the debut event in Feb 2025 in Australia
– PPA Challenger events, starting in 2025 when the program kicked off.
– APP Pro events, dating to their debut in Sept 2020
– APP Next medals, starting with their debut in San Antonio back in Nov 2021. There’s a little spotty data from early on, but we’re working on filling in the holes.
– All US Open and USA Pickleball Pro divisions, dating to 2016. Note: I’m missing the Open/Pro divisions from the 2017 USA Pickleball Nationals; if you have the results I’d love to update the data. I do not have the first 8-10 USA Pickleball events either; lost to the sands of time and the loss of the original pickleballtournaments.com platform.
– Triple Crowns across all Pro entities: this was the impetus for building out the Challenger and Next data, by the way. I wanted to capture any triple crowns won by burgeoning pros on those circuits. This is also where you can see Anna Leigh Waters’ 41 Triple Crowns (40 of which have occurred on the PPA).
– APP Champions Pros (50+)
– APP Masters Pros (60+)
– PPA Senior Pros (50+)
– US Open and USAP Nationals Senior Pro results
– Senior Triple Crowns across all entities
– A slew of other data, including Points per event, Prize Money tables, and other useful information.
If you have any suggestions for improvements to this resource, or for any corrections to older data, don’t hesitate to reach out.
Otherwise, bookmark this resource and I hope you find it handy!
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/toddboss/2026/01/23/ppa-challenger-and-app-next-results-added-to-pro-pickleball-online-medal-tracker/
