West Hollywood’s annual Pride Pickleball Tournament is back for another round of games set to take place across both of the City’s courts on Saturday and Sunday, June 13 and 14 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on both days. Courts at Plummer Park, 7377 Santa Monica Blvd., and West Hollywood Park, 647 N. San Vicente Blvd., will both be in use.
Divisions will include men’s and women’s singles, doubles, and mixed doubles. Players of all skill levels will be showing what they’ve got. The top three finishers in each division will receive a Pride Pickleball Tournament medal. The tournament will also include guest speakers, music, and vendor booths.
Registration for this year’s tournament is closed.
The tournament’s return is another example of a sport that’s blown up far beyond its retirement-community image. Whenever I pass a court at Plummer I rarely see anyone under 50 playing. The game and its players have definitely evolved. The sport’s biggest star is 19-year-old Anna Leigh Waters — this pickleball queen turned pro at 12, holds 181 career gold medals, and is ranked world No. 1 in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles. Okurrr. She’s also coached by her mom — which does something to the “old people sport” argument.
The latest numbers we could find show 24.3 million Americans played pickleball in 2025 — a 22.8 percent jump from the year before and a 171 percent increase over three years. The SFIA called it the dominant multi-year growth leader across all sports it tracks. About 4.5 million new players picked up a paddle in 2025 alone.
That tracks here in West Hollywood where demand has been playing out at Plummer Park in real numbers. During a six-month stretch in 2025, the park logged roughly 16,000 pickleball reservations compared to 14,000 tennis reservations — a flip in usage that helped push the City Council to act on dedicated court space.
Because of the ever growing popularity of the sport, Plummer Park’s court configuration is in the middle of a change. The City Council voted 5-0 in March to convert Courts 6 and 7 at Plummer Park to pickleball-only reservations by July 1, with a second phase that would permanently restripe those courts for pickleball. That vote, initiated by Councilmember John Erickson, marked the first time the City committed to dedicated pickleball space at the park. At the time of the vote, Councilmember John Heilman flagged the annual Pride tournament specifically, saying he didn’t want the court conversion to displace it. “I don’t want us to create a situation where that tournament then no longer has a place to operate in the city,” Heilman said.
Plummer Park courts are located at the north end of the park, nearest Fountain Avenue. West Hollywood Park courts are on the rooftop of the five-story parking structure on San Vicente.
Players interested in future pickleball programming at Plummer Park or West Hollywood Park can register and make reservations through Tennacity at www.tennacity.com.
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