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Klyng Rising League2026 Season · Record Book

10 Teams. 6 Stops. 699 Games.

A statistical rundown of the 2026 Rising League regular season.

April 11 – July 25, 2026
10Teams
85Players
6Host clubs
Regular-season championsRally Force

Level on points, matches, games and head-to-head. Winner by head-to-head points!

The season in numbers

What it took to get through it

180Matches
699Games played
18,312Points scored
85Players
36Rounds
6Host clubs
26.2Avg points per game
684Games sent to DUPR
Final standings

The table after six stops

Three points for a match win, one for a loss, none for a forfeit. Every team played all nine opponents four times — 36 matches, 144 games each.

Klyng Rising League 2026 final regular-season standings
#TeamPtsWLMatch %GamesDiffGame %
1Rally Force88261072.292–52+4063.9
2Reese’s Pickleball Pieces88261072.292–52+4063.9
3Booyah86251169.484–60+2458.3
4Body Baggers84241266.799–45+5468.8
5Double Trouble80221461.174–70+451.4
6APEX PADDLERS62132336.168–76−847.2
7Guelph Shrimps58112530.653–91−3836.8
8Game of Paddles58112530.656–88−3238.9
9Dink Dynasty56102627.850–94−4434.7
10The Northern Dinks6 forfeits54122433.352–92−4036.1
The title race

Rally Force and Reese’s could not be separated

Identical on points. Identical on match record. Identical on games won and lost. Split 2–2 head-to-head. The league needed its fourth tiebreaker — total points scored in the four meetings between them.

Head-to-head, all four meetingsRFRPP
Stop 1 · Smash LondonReese’s won 3–15456
Stop 2 · Pickleplex CambridgeRally Force won on points5750
Stop 4 · COURTXReese’s won on points4257
Stop 5 · The JarRally Force won 3–15642
Season series2 wins each209205
Margin of victory+4

Four points across four matches, sixteen games and 414 points played between them. Rally Force take the 2026 regular season.

  • 1League points — 88 each
  • 2Head-to-head record — 2–2
  • 3Game differential — +40 each
  • 4Head-to-head points — 209 to 205
The tour

Six stops, six host clubs

Thirty matches at every stop — each team played six. Six times a team went through a stop unbeaten. Booyah did it twice in a row to open the season, then lost all six at Stop 3.

01
Smash LondonApril 11 · 120 games · 5 courts
Booyah6–0
02
Pickleplex CambridgeMay 2 · 121 games · 5 courts
Booyah6–0
03
London Hunt ClubMay 16 · 97 games · 4 courts
Body Baggers6–0
04
COURTXJune 21 · 120 games · 5 courts
Double Trouble6–0
05
The JarJuly 4 · 121 games · 5 courts
Body Baggers & Rally Force6–0
06
Real PickleballJuly 25 · 120 games · 5 courts
Rally Force & Double Trouble5–1
Player boards

Who carried the season

Most wins

all players

  1. 1Peter HullReese’s Pickleball Pieces47
  2. 2Kaitlyn PonceletBody Baggers45
  3. 2Jill AbergelDouble Trouble · Body Baggers45
  4. 4Chris KostrzewaRally Force44
  5. 4Jackie LeskovarRally Force44
  6. 4Denver CarterReese’s Pickleball Pieces44
  7. 7Nicholas StrikerBooyah41

Best win rate

40+ games

  1. 1Nicholas StrikerBooyah · 41–785.4%
  2. 2Kaitlyn PonceletBody Baggers · 45–1377.6%
  3. 3Chris KostrzewaRally Force · 44–1673.3%
  4. 3Jackie LeskovarRally Force · 44–1673.3%
  5. 5Jacob FortinBooyah · 34–1470.8%
  6. 6Zijian LuBody Baggers · 38–2065.5%
  7. 7Peter HullReese’s · 47–2565.3%

Most games played

the iron men and women

  1. 1Peter HullReese’s · all 6 stops72
  2. 1Denver CarterReese’s · all 6 stops72
  3. 3Jill AbergelDouble Trouble · Body Baggers70
  4. 3Alexa AquinoAPEX PADDLERS70
  5. 3Ryan BilodeauDink Dynasty70
  6. 3Hanne PoulsenGame of Paddles70
  7. 3Jacob GarciaDink Dynasty70

Most points scored

across the season

  1. 1Peter HullReese’s Pickleball Pieces988
  2. 2Denver CarterReese’s Pickleball Pieces969
  3. 3Jill AbergelDouble Trouble · Body Baggers960
  4. 4Alexa AquinoAPEX PADDLERS920
  5. 5Hanne PoulsenGame of Paddles872
  6. 6Jackie LeskovarRally Force865
  7. 7Chris KostrzewaRally Force861

Best point differential

points won minus points lost

  1. 1Nicholas StrikerBooyah+194
  2. 2Jackie LeskovarRally Force+178
  3. 3Chris KostrzewaRally Force+151
  4. 4Kaitlyn PonceletBody Baggers+144
  5. 5Jacob FortinBooyah+130
  6. 6November ReignBooyah+121
  7. 7Steffi RingelbergReese’s Pickleball Pieces+118

Short seasons, big returns

under 40 games

  1. 1Vicky XiaBody Baggers · 20–2 in 2290.9%
  2. 2Steffi RingelbergReese’s · 27–5 in 3284.4%
  3. 3Nathan LeDouble Trouble · 10–2 in 1283.3%
  4. 4Nikhil DuttaRally Force · 18–6 in 2475.0%
  5. 4Caius TamDouble Trouble · 18–6 in 2475.0%
  6. 6Achint BhagatBody Baggers · 26–10 in 3672.2%
  7. 7Brad MatthewsBooyah · 17–7 in 2470.8%
Partnerships

The pairings that held up

Ten games together minimum. Two partnerships finished the season without losing.

Best-performing partnerships of the 2026 Klyng Rising League season
PairingTeamSlotGPW–LWin %Pt diff
Kaitlyn Poncelet & Vicky XiaBody BaggersWomen’s1111–0100.0+61
Denver Carter & Steffi RingelbergReese’sMixed1010–0100.0+57
Jacob Fortin & Nicholas StrikerBooyahMen’s1817–194.4+96
Jackie Leskovar & Chris KostrzewaRally ForceMixed 12018–290.0+98
Peter Hull & Reese GeorgeReese’sMixed1210–283.3+33
Shannon Zheng & Caius TamDouble TroubleMixed119–281.8+54
Peter Hull & Bruna ChavesReese’sMixed1613–381.3+37
Nicholas Striker & November ReignBooyahMixed2418–675.0+74
Kaitlyn Poncelet & Zijian LuBody BaggersMixed1712–570.6+37
Ryan Bilodeau & Michal KaplanDink DynastyMixed2014–670.0+20
Most-played partnership

Denver Carter & Peter Hull — 36 games together

Reese’s men’s doubles pair started every single match of the season, all 36 of them, and came out 19–17. Nobody else in the league played more than 35 games with the same partner.

By discipline

Where each team won its matches

Every match is four games: men’s doubles, women’s doubles and two mixed. Win three and the match is yours — but 55 matches finished 2–2 and were decided on total points instead.

Each team’s record by discipline across the 2026 season
TeamMen’sWomen’sMixedStrongest
Rally Force21–1521–1550–22Mixed
Reese’s Pickleball Pieces19–1720–1653–19Mixed
Booyah29–719–1736–36Men’s
Body Baggers20–1527–848–22Women’s
Double Trouble15–2020–1535–35Women’s
APEX PADDLERS15–2019–1630–40Women’s
Guelph Shrimps20–1510–2519–51Men’s
Game of Paddles14–2112–2326–44Men’s
Dink Dynasty7–2814–2125–45Women’s
The Northern Dinks14–1612–1826–34Men’s
Margins

How close it actually was

Every game was a single race to 15. Nearly a quarter of them finished 15–14.

166

Games that finished 15–14

Out of 699 played — 23.7% of the season came down to a single point.

285

Games decided by two or fewer

40.8% of all games. The average losing score was 11.2.

55

Matches tied 2–2 after four games

Nearly a third of the 174 matches played went to total points. Three still could not be split and went to a deciding fifth game.

0

Shutouts, all season

Only six games all year ended with the losing side under four points. Nobody was blanked.

Share of games decided by one point, by discipline
Women’s doubles26.4%
Mixed 223.6%
Men’s doubles22.4%
Mixed 122.4%
Match of the season

Body Baggers 3–1 Guelph Shrimps · Stop 2, Pickleplex Cambridge

All four games were decided by a single point — 15–14, 15–14, 14–15, 15–14. It is the only match in the entire season where every game went to the wire, and it was settled by two points across 116.

What’s next

The Championship Finals

Eight teams, double elimination, one day. August 23 at Smash Collingwood.

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