Malaysia Open pickleball championship adds RM100,000 prize pool in Selangor
A more than RM100,000 purse will headline Selangor’s June 5-7 Malaysia Open, with team champions set to chase RM30,000 in a three-day test of depth.
More than RM100,000 in prize money is turning the Alliance Bank Malaysia Open Pickleball Championship into more than another stop on the calendar. The tournament will run June 5 to 7 at Tomaz Pickleball Club in Selangor, with matches scheduled from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. each day and a draw that stretches from Junior and Novice through Intermediate, Open and Team play. For a sport still building its competitive structure across Southeast Asia, that scale matters. Malaysia is not just adding events. It is building a marketplace.
The event’s richest prize sits in the Team division, where squads of eight players, built around four pairs, two men’s doubles pairs, one women’s doubles pair and one mixed doubles pair, will battle for RM30,000 plus sponsor vouchers. Open doubles champions will receive RM4,000 and JOOLA competition paddles, while the Open bracket also includes a 35+ category and mixed doubles for players aged 50 and above. That mix of age-group access and cash on offer gives the tournament a wider reach than a standard elite draw. It is designed to pull in established names, but also to keep the next wave of Malaysian players coming back.
Every participant will also receive official DUPR ratings, which gives the championship a second layer of significance beyond prize money. In a sport where verified results and measurable progression are becoming part of the growth story, that rating system can matter as much as the check. The Malaysia Pickleball Association says the country already has more than 400,000 players, 73 tournaments, 472-plus venues and more than 500 certified coaches. Those numbers help explain why sponsors are moving in. The market is already larger than a niche experiment, and the infrastructure is starting to catch up.
The timing also fits a wider regional push. PPA Tour Asia brought its inaugural Malaysia stop to Kuala Lumpur in July 2025, and Alliance Bank had already backed the KL Open Pickleball Championship in April 2025, its first pickleball tournament sponsorship in Malaysia. Now the same brand is attached to a larger, more layered event in Selangor. That is the real story behind the purse: whether RM100,000, a late-night schedule and a deep division structure can attract top talent, lift local standards and speed up the professionalization of the Malaysian circuit. On paper, Malaysia is no longer just hosting pickleball. It is trying to define what serious pickleball in the region looks like.
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