{"id":307594,"date":"2026-06-15T03:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T03:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/307594\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T03:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T03:59:12","slug":"major-league-pickleball-st-petersburg-2026-pools-and-schedule-the-kitchen-pickleball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/307594\/","title":{"rendered":"Major League Pickleball St. Petersburg 2026: Pools and schedule \u2013 The Kitchen Pickleball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                                        By Alex Lantz<\/p>\n<p>                                             | Jun 15, 2026\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Major League Pickleball is making its debut in St. Petersburg, Florida, this week for Week 5 of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event \u2014 hosted by the Florida Smash \u2014 will be held at St. Pete Athletic, which opened in late 2025 and is regarded as one of the best indoor pickleball facilities in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are 11 teams in the field this week, and the event starts Wednesday (a day earlier than usual) because there\u2019s only one court being used for pro play:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Group A: Brooklyn Pickleball Team, Chicago Slice, Florida Smash, Los Angeles Mad Drops, Miami Pickleball Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Group B: Columbus Sliders, Orlando Squeeze, Palm Beach Royals, St. Louis Shock, Texas Ranchers, Utah Black Diamonds.<\/p>\n<p>Major League Pickleball standings<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Major-League-Pickleball-Week-4-Standings-2026.jpeg\" alt=\"Major League Pickleball 2026 Week 4 standings.\" class=\"wp-image-3494\"\/><\/p>\n<p>MLP St. Petersburg match schedule<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All matches available on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pickleballtv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Pickleball TV<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pickleballtv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Pickleball TV app.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1-ST-PETE-WED-3.png\" alt=\"MLP St. Petersburg Wednesday schedule.\" class=\"wp-image-3488\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2-ST-PETE-THU-2.png\" alt=\"MLP St. Petersburg Thursday schedule.\" class=\"wp-image-3487\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/3-ST-PETE-FRI-2.png\" alt=\"MLP St. Petersburg Friday schedule.\" class=\"wp-image-3486\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4-ST-PETE-SAT-2.png\" alt=\"MLP St. Petersburg Saturday schedule.\" class=\"wp-image-3485\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5-ST-PETE-SUN-2.png\" alt=\"MLP St. Petersburg Sunday schedule.\" class=\"wp-image-3484\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Alex Lantz | Jun 15, 2026 Major League Pickleball is making its debut in St. Petersburg, Florida,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-307594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}