Philippine Pickleball Federation launches national registry and 12-month rankings

The Philippine Pickleball Federation has rolled out the Philippine Pickleball Participant Registry, a centralized database that will issue unique national player IDs, record sanctioned match results and feed the country’s first official national rankings. PPF President Shery Anne Cu said, “This will be the official national players registry, and it will be accessed through registry.pickleball.ph. This will provide a unified identification system for all players and allow us to properly track participation, match history, and rankings for players in the Philippines.”

The federation announced that ranking points will be earned only through PPF-sanctioned tournaments and recognized international competitions, and that the standings will use a 12-month rolling dashboard to reflect current performance. “Players will earn ranking points only through sanctioned tournaments and recognized international competitions using a 12-month rolling system to reflect current performance,” Cu said, a rule the PPF says will drive selection pools and national-team eligibility.

PPF has entered an operational partnership with Pickleball Global to manage all sanctioned events and to serve as the official database for membership. Events managed on the Pickleball Global platform will award Philippine Ranking Points and Global Pickleball Rankings points, and the platform is synchronized with DUPR; players must input their DUPR IDs into their Pickleball Global profiles to enable automatic DUPR updates.

The federation specified the 1st Philippine Pickleball Amateur Nationals 2026 as one of the first major events under the new framework. The Nationals are scheduled for March 28 to 30 in Las Piñas, co-presented by Skechers, and select winners will go on to represent the Philippines at the EPIC World Amateur Championships in Singapore from April 30 to May 3. PPF says results from these sanctioned events will form the basis for national rankings, qualifications and selection pools.

PPF is also moving on development and school outreach alongside the ranking rollout. The federation signed a memorandum of agreement with the University of the Philippines College of Human Kinetics to teach pickleball through a structured module, and PPF tournaments will span divisions from 16-under to 60-plus with singles, doubles and mixed doubles formats and events for novices and children. Cu framed the growth as organic: “This is truly a grassroots sport. While other sports have been having difficulty to be recognized or even known by the community, pickleball is different. People are just interested in the sport and gravitating towards it.” She added the registry framework “allows grassroots participation to remain accessible while supporting higher-level competition.”

Registered players will receive a verified match history, eligibility to earn official national ranking points and access to PPF-sanctioned tournaments, and the federation says partner discounts and player perks are planned. Pickleball Ph is encouraging athletes, clubs and organizers to migrate sanctioned events to the Pickleball Global platform so that Philippine Ranking Points, GPR points and DUPR synchronization will populate national leaderboards and selection pools for international competition. The new registry and 12-month rolling rankings set a formal pathway from neighborhood courts to national squads and the EPIC world stage.