How the 2024 CIBC PPA Tour Finals Tournament Works: As the 2024 PPA season comes to a close, the final event is here: the 2024 CIBC PPA Tour Finals. Hosted at Life Time Rancho San Clemente, the tournament features the top eight teams and players battling for supremacy. Here’s a closer look at how the tournament works and what to expect from this exciting showdown.
How the Tournament Works
Partnerships: In the lead-up to the finals, the top-seeded players were allowed to select their partners. The selection process started with the highest-ranked player, followed by the next highest, and so on.
One notable exception to the standard partnership selection was in mixed doubles, where the top-ranked woman chose her partner first, followed by the others in order of seeding.
Pool Play Format: The event is divided into two pools for each discipline:
- ATP Pool
- ERNE Pool
During pool play, each team will face off against every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool will advance to the semi-finals on Saturday. The matchups are set up so that the best team from the ATP Pool will play the second-best team from the ERNE Pool, and vice versa.
This format mirrors the PPA Progressive Draw, where each player or team will compete once per day, ensuring that the players are only required to play up to three times—on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday—before making their way to the finals.
The Final Four
The four players who managed to qualify for the finals in all three disciplines are:
These seasoned athletes will square off for the ultimate glory in pickleball, with all eyes on their performances as they look to cap off a successful year.
News in Brief: How the 2024 CIBC PPA Tour Finals Tournament Works
The 2024 CIBC PPA Tour Finals are underway at Life Time Rancho San Clemente, with the top eight teams and players battling it out for the championship. Players were paired through a seeding process, with top-ranked individuals selecting partners in men’s and mixed doubles events.
With pool play dividing the field into ATP and ERNE Pools, the top two teams from each pool will advance to the semi-finals. Four players—Anna Leigh Waters, Catherine Parenteau, Federico Staksrud, and Ben Johns—are poised to compete across all three disciplines in the finals.
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