Kuala Lumpur lands inaugural PPA Asia 125 Tomaz Cup in 2026
Kuala Lumpur adds a five-day PPA Asia 125 stop at Tomaz Pickleball Club, giving local players another ranking path while the city stacks more tour dates.
Kuala Lumpur has landed the inaugural PPA Asia 125 Malaysia Tomaz Cup, a five-day event set for August 27-31 at Tomaz Pickleball Club in USJ 1, Subang Jaya. MSPL Sports and Tomaz Pickleball Club are co-presenting the stop, which places both Pro and Amateur divisions on the same stage and adds another ranking-point opportunity to Malaysia’s busiest pickleball city.
The venue itself explains why the tour keeps coming back. Tomaz Pickleball Club is at Lot 677, Jalan Persiaran Subang Permai, in USJ 1, Subang Jaya, Selangor, and says it has 21 indoor, air-conditioned courts with LED lighting and operating hours from 8AM to 2AM. That kind of setup matters in a pro-am event, where match volume, warm-ups and amateur entries all have to fit into the same schedule without forcing the event to spread thin.
For Malaysian players, the Tomaz Cup is more than another stop on the calendar. A PPA Asia 125 event gives them a structured route into the region’s ranking ecosystem, and it does so at home, in a city where travel costs, coaching access and regular court time are already concentrated. For clubs and sponsors, the upside is just as clear: a branded international event in Kuala Lumpur brings in visiting pros, local entries and the kind of visibility that a one-off domestic tournament cannot match.
The new date also lands in a crowded but increasingly credible Kuala Lumpur lane. PPA Tour Asia’s 2026 calendar already includes the Kuala Lumpur Open and the Leapmotor Kuala Lumpur Cup, so the Tomaz Cup is entering a market that is already used to repeat tour inventory. That does raise the obvious question of whether the city is building depth or simply stacking events, but the numbers lean toward growth. The Malaysia Pickleball Association says it is the national governing body and lists more than 400,000 players, 472-plus venues, 500-plus coaches and 73 tournaments.
Kuala Lumpur’s recent track record backs that up. PPA Tour Asia’s 2025 Malaysia Cup in the city carried US$150,000 in prize money and 1,500 ranking points at the top, and it was there that Ben Johns made his first PPA appearance outside the United States. Against that backdrop, the Tomaz Cup is smaller on paper, but it still extends the same pattern: Kuala Lumpur is no longer waiting for pickleball’s center of gravity to find it. It is building one stop at a time.
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