The Champions Desk

1 Upcoming events · next ~45 days

Window through ~Nov 30, 2026 · sources seen 2026-10-16 unless noted

Oct 12–17 · wraps Sat

Huntsman World Senior Games — pickleball, ages 50+ Little Valley & SunRiver complexes, St. George, UT · rain delays Oct 13, no divisions cancelled; doubles results pages now listed seniorgames.net · weather updates · 2026 results

Oct 15–18 · underway

Humana APP Louisville Open — Champions (50+) & Masters (60+), plus Humana Cup senior team play Kentucky International Convention Center, Louisville, KY · free general admission with reserved ticket APP Louisville · APP preview (Oct 14)

Oct 23–24

Martin County Senior Games — 50+ (brackets to 70+), Florida Senior Games qualifier Halpatiokee Regional Park, Stuart, FL · registration closes Oct 18 PickleballTournaments

Oct 23–25

Kissing Tree tournament — USSP circuit 50+ Kissing Tree 55+ community, San Marcos, TX · registration closed PickleballTournaments

Oct 27–28

Cowtown Senior Open Series (4) — USSP circuit Game On Sports Complex, Fort Worth, TX · indoor USSP event

Oct 28–Nov 1

MLP Champions Series Championships — Premier 50+ & Masters 60+ Dallas, TX (@ MLP) · dates updated on the league schedule (was Oct 30–Nov 1) CSP schedule · Championships page

Oct 29–Nov 1

Pictona Open — age brackets include 50+, 60+, 70+ Pictona at Holly Hill, FL · over-60 events Thu–Sat · registration ends Oct 25 PickleballTournaments

Nov 11–15

Horseshoe Bay Fall Open — USSP circuit 50+ (50+ events Wed–Fri) Horseshoe Bay Resort, TX PickleballTournaments

Nov 12–14

USSP Fall Classic at Palm Creek (50+) Casa Grande, AZ · registration ends Oct 31 PickleballTournaments

Nov 12–15

APP Arizona Open — Champions (50+) & Masters (60+), also a Humana Cup stop Arizona Athletic Grounds, Mesa, AZ APP Arizona · Humana Cup schedule

Nov 16–18

Silver State Games — 50+ National Senior Games qualifier Black Mountain Pickleball Courts, Henderson, NV · registration deadline Nov 1 Silver State Games · new this issue

Nov 21–22

Seasoned and Smashing — 50+, indoor round robin Pickleball Kingdom Lynnwood, WA · listing says no longer USSP-sanctioned · registration ends Oct 20 PickleballTournaments

Nov 30–Dec 5

USSP National Championship presented by Humana — 50+ Palm Creek Resort, Casa Grande, AZ · registration closed early on demand, 1,161 players registered PickleballTournaments · USSP tournaments

Just finished: Katy “Elder Senior” October Slam (Oct 13–15). Outside this window: APP Tour Championships Dec 3–6; Power Play Senior Nationals Dec 3–6, Nashville (Power Play); USLPL Showdown Week 3 in Macon, GA, Dec 9–13 (league deck).

2 Team standings

MLP Champions Series — Columbus results (Oct 8–11)

Premier 50+ · Columbus1 Houston Hammers · 2 Indy Drivers · 3 Suncoast Pelicans

Masters 60+ · Columbus1 Suncoast Pelicans · 2 Denver Iconics & Coachella Valley Scorpions (tied)

Props to Houston and Suncoast: the league also named them winners of the Chicago opener in July (CSP LinkedIn, seen 2026-10-02). Columbus was the last regular-season stop before the Championships in Dallas, Oct 28–Nov 1.

Sources: league posts on X, Oct 14, 7:00 PM ET (Premier 50+ · Masters 60+) · seen 2026-10-16. No season table is posted on champions-series.com, so we don’t rank teams across the season.

USLPL — unchanged since St. Louis Week 2

No league play since Oct 11; Macon is next in December. Week 2 weekend: 50+ Royals, SuperNovas, Crushers; 60+ Flash, then Archers (USLPL wrap).

60+ season1 Gotham Flash 7–1 (+19) · 2 Palm Beach Picklers 6–2 (+20) · 3 St Louis Archers 4–4 · 4 KY Thoroughbreds 3–5 (−7) · 5 Carolina Coyotes 2–6 (−11) · 6 Cape Cod Sharks 2–6 (−20)

50+ season · top 81 DC SuperNovas 8–0 (+27) · 2 Florida Royals 7–1 (+24) · 3 Columbus Arsenal 7–1 (+17) · 4 The DelRays 5–3 (+22) · 5 Buffalo Blizzards 5–2 (+11) · 6 NYC Ballers 4–4 (+7) · 7 Boston Dragons 4–4 · 8 Keystone Crushers 4–4

APP Humana Cup — Champions (50+) teams

Standings after Week 4 (APP Detroit, Aug 20–23): 1 Team Endara 4–0 · 2 Team Zickert 3–1 · 3 Team Tarn 2–2 and Team Tow 2–2 · 5 Team Main 1–3 · 6 Team DeCaprio 0–4. Louisville is the next stop, with both Champions and Masters teams.

New to the desk, not new results: from APP’s Humana Cup page (posted Aug 23) · seen 2026-10-16. We left out the Masters table because the posted results and standings don’t line up.

3 Player note · APP Champions / Masters

Louisville (Oct 15–18) is underway, with AARP Champions (50+), AARP Masters (60+), and the Humana Cup back for senior pros. No Champions/Masters results from Louisville have been published yet. The latest published senior results are still from Columbus: Marcello Jardim won two Champions golds, Carolina Lopez Ascarate and Andrea Olson took women’s doubles, and Youssef Bouzidi and Karin Ptaszek-Kochis won singles.

Sources: APP Louisville preview (Oct 14) · APP news · seen 2026-10-16; APP Columbus recap (Oct 5) · seen 2026-10-06. No ratings republished.

5 What changed vs last issue

Vs Issue 6 (Oct 13): MLP Champions Series posted its Columbus results. Houston Hammers won Premier 50+ and Suncoast Pelicans won Masters 60+, both repeat winners from Chicago. We now also carry APP’s published Humana Cup Champions table (Team Endara 4–0). USLPL is unchanged. USSP Nationals moves into the window after closing registration early with 1,161 players. We added the Silver State Games (Henderson, NV, Nov 16–18), noted the CSP Championships’ updated dates (Oct 28–Nov 1), and rolled the window to ~Nov 30. Louisville is underway with no senior results yet. All Worth Clicking items are new.

Youssef Bouzidi: the accountant with the passing shot