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Ben Johns
Ben Johns holds 120 PPA Tour gold medals, more than any player in pickleball history, split between 26 singles titles, 41 doubles titles (31 with brother Collin Johns, 8 with Matt Wright), and a run of 16 consecutive mixed doubles titles with Anna Leigh Waters between March 2023 and February 2024. He's collected a record 21 career Triple Crowns — winning singles, doubles, and mixed doubles at the same event — a feat only one other male player, Tyson McGuffin, has managed even once, and he built a 108-match winning streak in men's singles along the way. Johns has held the world number one ranking in all three divisions — singles, doubles, and mixed doubles — simultaneously since 2020, and he has medaled in all 59-plus PPA tournaments he's entered, never once leaving a professional event empty-handed. His combination of a record 120 PPA Tour titles and his unmatched 21 career Triple Crowns has made Johns almost universally regarded as the greatest pickleball player of all time.
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Tyson McGuffin
Tyson McGuffin played tennis at Scottsdale Community College and briefly cracked the ATP's top 1,500 before switching to pickleball in 2015 and turning professional just six months later, a rapid transition that let him become one of the sport's first true stars. He has won five Grand Slam championships and two U.S. Open titles, including a 2019 singles-and-doubles sweep at that event, plus four National Championships and two career Triple Crowns — one of them at the 2023 Tournament of Champions — putting him behind only Ben Johns among men for career Triple Crowns. Across 110 professional tournaments and 668 career matches, McGuffin has posted a 62.1 percent win rate, and while singles has become tougher for him against the sport's younger generation, he remains ranked in the top 10-15 in both men's doubles and mixed doubles. His combination of two career Triple Crowns and his foundational role helping establish the credibility of pickleball's earliest professional tours has made McGuffin one of the most significant figures in the sport's transition to full professional status.
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