This is The Dink’s first update of the 2025 season PPA Points Race.
What is The Race? Glad you asked.
The PPA Tour has a season long points race to see which players qualify for the PPA Finals, usually held in early December (location, date, and title sponsor yet to be announced for 2025).
Qualification and Finals play
The top eight players/teams throughout the year qualify for The Finals. Here is an exact list of top players who are eligible to play in the finals:
- Top 8 women’s singles players
- Top 8 men’s singles players
- Top 16 women’s doubles players
- Top 16 men’s doubles players
- Top 8 women in mixed doubles
- Top 8 men in mixed doubles
You may be asking yourself, “why 16 in gender doubles and then eight in mixed doubles”? The point is to have eight total teams play in The Finals, and this format allows for that.
Once the tour figures out who the eligible players are, essentially a “draft” happens. The top seeded player gets to choose their partner, and then the next best seed gets to choose, and so on. The only small caveat to that rule is that in mixed doubles it still goes from best to worst seed, but the women get to pick their male counterpart.
The finals are then played round-robin style and then a playoff ensues, with winners named….
