Association of Pickleball Athletes (APA)
The Toronto Open
Jem PicklePlace
Coming this Fall 2025, The APA likes to welcome you to the Capital City of Ontario, The Toronto Open!
We are so excited to welcome you to Toronto's NEWEST pickleball facility, The Jem PicklePlace. This facility has 9 spacious beautiful courts, lounge, bar, change rooms, saunas, and a VIBE like none other! When you are not playing, please enjoy the nightlife that Toronto has to offer.
This will be a skill/age tournament with 19+, 35+, 50+, 60+, and 70+ age categories played at 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, OPEN/SENIOR/PRO skill levels. You can play up to 5 events. Tournament directors reserve the rights to combine brackets & change format based on registration numbers. The registration fee will be $70, $15 Per Event/$70 Per OPEN Event. Your spot is not guaranteed in your event until both partners are registered and paid in full. You and your partner both have 5 days to register before being put onto the wait-list. Maximum 8 teams per division except the OPEN/PRO TBD. Spots will fill up quickly, so sign up TODAY!
Singles is back! Wednesday October 22nd. We have age/levels for all participants. PRO singles will be played on Friday October 24th.
NEW - ATTENTION Split Age Pickleball player! We have heard and we have listened! We have now added an additional 4.5 split event to even out the playing field!
Thursday October 23rd we will be offering SPLIT AGE events Men's/Women's/Mixed. The levels offered are 3.5-/4.0-/4.5+/PRO. In these events if you are OVER/UNDER Age of 50, you will EITHER have to play with someone Age 50 & OVER, or Age 49 & UNDER. You will be allowed to play in 2 events on this day, one gender doubles and one mix doubles.
DUPR UPDATE:
We will be using DUPR rating going forward for the 2025 year. No more self rating, no CTPR, no pickleballbrackets rating, no WorldRating, only DUPR now. You're allowed to play up in a level, but not down. Rating goes from .99 and below. For example you are considered a 3.5 level player if you have a rating between 3.50 - 3.99.
All participants of the APA Ontario Circuit MUST have a DUPR account to participate. We will be submitting scores to DUPR. Please create an account on DUPR, if you don't already have one - https://dashboard.dupr.com/signup
Tournament director reserves the right to move teams playing up too far if he feels they won't be competitive. We will be using the DUPR for registration going forward. Please make sure you play in the RIGHT skill level, we will be monitoring this. Please note that the PRO events are for OPEN level athletes. For ambitious players with a lower rating, please email the APA Tournament Director for approval to participate. Email @ apacircuit@outlook.com.
NEW - We heard and we listened! With the fastest growing sport that keeps on growing, so is the LEVEL of play! We have added our FIRST 5.0 categories for the 19+ age group. We feel the jump from 4.5 to PRO is quite high, so we wanted to meet in the middle with a NEW division!
PRO QUALIFIER - You have what it takes to be a pro? We will also be hosting a PRO QUALIFIER for finals spots in the PRO division. Men's/Women's/Mixed PRO Qualifier will be played on Friday October 24th. You will be charged the PRO rate of $70. Tournament director has the RIGHT to move players to the QUALIFIER or the MAIN DRAW.
Tournament will be ran on 5 days:
Wednesday Oct 22 2025 - Men's/Women's Singles 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 - AGE 19+/35+/50+/60+
Thursday Oct 23 2025 - Men's/Mix/Women's Doubles Split Age - 3.5-/4.0-/4.5+/PRO - AGE 50+/49-
Friday Oct 24 2025 - Men's/Women's 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, SR PRO- AGE 50+/60+/70+ - Men's/Women's Singles PRO
Saturday Oct 25 2025 - Mixed Doubles 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, PRO - AGE 19+/35+/50+/60+/70+
Sunday Oct 26 2025 - Men's/Women's 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, PRO - AGE 19+/35+
This event will follow USAPA rules with all medal matches refereed. We will try to ref other games when possible. UPA paddles are approved.
The 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5 5.0 categories will be pool round robins and the top teams in each pool will advance to a playoff round to determine medal winners. Each team will be guaranteed a minimum of 3 games. (Games played to 15, Bronze medal match played to 15, Gold medal round best 2 out of 3 to 11) Games can be up to 11 with a guaranteed minimum of 5 games. All games will be win by 2. PRO/OPEN Division will be a double elimination format with a minimum of 5 teams.
IMPORTANT!
Starting time for each day will be 8AM. Your event can start as late as 7PM. Events can go as late as 11pm Depending on how many participants we have registered, the time can change for each day. Full schedule will be available Sunday Night Oct 19th 2025.
