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this news could change pickable forever
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this week it was announced that the
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association of pickleball professionals
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or the app will be partnering with
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universal tennis rating UTI is owned by
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Amazon Nueva Djokovic and team Australia
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and has become the most popular way for
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professional tennis players to get rated
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the rating system's popularity can be
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boiled down to one reason its Simplicity
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it basically assigns a play a number
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between 1 and 16 as their rating and
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became so popular in tennis the
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pickleball Community copied it for
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themselves the pickleball equivalent is
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called dupe and was actually created by
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a number of employees from utr but now
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utr wants a piece of the pickleball pie
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and is trying to compete with duper to
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become the dominant rating system for
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pickleball players across the world and
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the partnership between utr and the app
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makes sense because it gives utr instant
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access to the pickleball Market while
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allowing the app to skip the learning
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curve of figuring out ratings for its
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players but the drama doesn't end there
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because this partnership will increase
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the Rivalry that already exists between
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the app and the competing Pro Tour of
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Major League pickleball Who currently
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works with duper so now I'm professional
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pickleball we don't only have two
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different professional tours but we have
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two different rating systems for players
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on each tour and while we have yet to
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see if this will help or hurt the sport
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of pickleball the one thing we need to
