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Pickleball in Australia
Pickleball, a paddle sport that combines elements of tennis, badminton, and table tennis, was invented in the United States in 1965, on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Labeled the fastest growing sport in the United States since 2021, the sport is rapidly gaining popularity in Australia.
In September 2024 AusPlay, a report issued by Australia's Clearinghouse for Sport, in coordination with the Australian Sports Commission, found that as of June 2024 over 92,000 Australians had played the sport in the previous year. Trilogy Funds, the title sponsor for the 2024 Australian pickleball championships, declared pickleball as, "Australia's fastest growing sport".
The first time pickleball is known to have been played in Australia was in 2010 in the Sunshine Coast Region of Queensland, but it wasn't until 2015 that the sport started to be taken more seriously. The first purpose-built Australian pickleball courts were installed in 2016, in Caboolture, Queensland, with the first pickleball association, the Pickleball Association of Australia (PAA), formed in 2017. The original Pickleball Association of Australia was renamed the Pickleball Association of Queensland (PAQ) in 2020, when a new Pickleball Association of Australia was formed to act as the national governing body for Australia.
From January 24th to the 26th, at the end of the 2025 Australian Open tennis tournament, the Australian Open (AO) held its first AO Pickleball Slam tournament with one hundred thousand dollars in prize money.
The Pickleball Australia Association (PAA), a not-for-profit organization, was formed in 2020 to act as a nationwide governing body for pickleball. The PAA held its first Pickleball Australia State Member Strategy Conference in February 2025.
The PAA state members include the following subnational organizations:
The following reflects the pickleball-related statistics reported in Pickleball Australia's Annual Reports.
A rating system assigns each player an individual score based on their skill level. Their skill level can be assessed by evaluating the player against a standard table of progressively harder skills, or assigned using an algorithm based on actual game results. In March 2025 the PAA announced that the Dynamic Universal Pickleball Rating system (DUPR), would be the official rating system for all PAA sanctioned tournaments.
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Pickleball in Australia
Pickleball, a paddle sport that combines elements of tennis, badminton, and table tennis, was invented in the United States in 1965, on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Labeled the fastest growing sport in the United States since 2021, the sport is rapidly gaining popularity in Australia.
In September 2024 AusPlay, a report issued by Australia's Clearinghouse for Sport, in coordination with the Australian Sports Commission, found that as of June 2024 over 92,000 Australians had played the sport in the previous year. Trilogy Funds, the title sponsor for the 2024 Australian pickleball championships, declared pickleball as, "Australia's fastest growing sport".
The first time pickleball is known to have been played in Australia was in 2010 in the Sunshine Coast Region of Queensland, but it wasn't until 2015 that the sport started to be taken more seriously. The first purpose-built Australian pickleball courts were installed in 2016, in Caboolture, Queensland, with the first pickleball association, the Pickleball Association of Australia (PAA), formed in 2017. The original Pickleball Association of Australia was renamed the Pickleball Association of Queensland (PAQ) in 2020, when a new Pickleball Association of Australia was formed to act as the national governing body for Australia.
From January 24th to the 26th, at the end of the 2025 Australian Open tennis tournament, the Australian Open (AO) held its first AO Pickleball Slam tournament with one hundred thousand dollars in prize money.
The Pickleball Australia Association (PAA), a not-for-profit organization, was formed in 2020 to act as a nationwide governing body for pickleball. The PAA held its first Pickleball Australia State Member Strategy Conference in February 2025.
The PAA state members include the following subnational organizations:
The following reflects the pickleball-related statistics reported in Pickleball Australia's Annual Reports.
A rating system assigns each player an individual score based on their skill level. Their skill level can be assessed by evaluating the player against a standard table of progressively harder skills, or assigned using an algorithm based on actual game results. In March 2025 the PAA announced that the Dynamic Universal Pickleball Rating system (DUPR), would be the official rating system for all PAA sanctioned tournaments.