{"id":1033,"date":"2026-04-09T02:39:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/player\/federico-staksrud\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:40:03","slug":"federico-staksrud","status":"publish","type":"player","link":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/player\/federico-staksrud\/","title":{"rendered":"Federico Staksrud\uff5cWorld No. 1 from Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Federico Staksrud (born February 15)<\/strong>is a professional pickleball player from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He started tennis at age 5 and reached a ranking of 7th in Argentina's U18 category. As of November 2025 he had<a href=\"\/en\/tournament\/ppa-tour-2026\/\">PPA Tour<\/a>achieved world No. 1 in both men's singles and doubles<strong>world No. 1<\/strong>, the first pickleball world champion from South America.<\/p>\n<h2>From tennis to pickleball<\/h2>\n<p>After continuing to compete in tennis at several US universities (the University of New Orleans, Tennessee Wesleyan University, and others), he earned a master's degree in information systems at Florida Gulf Coast University. Following stints as a tennis coach and at a software company, he switched to pickleball in 2021. He grew rapidly through practice with top players such as Simone Jardim and Kyle Yates.<\/p>\n<h2>The road to world No. 1<\/h2>\n<p>He rose to prominence on the PPA Tour, and in November 2025, in men's doubles with Hayden Patriquin, he won<strong>gold at the Jenius Bank Pickleball World Championships<\/strong>. He stood at world No. 1 in both men's singles and doubles.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/tournament\/ppa-tour-2026\/\">PPA Tour 2026<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Reference Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ppatour.com\/athlete\/federico-staksrud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PPA Tour Official Profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pickleball.com\/people\/final-mens-rankings-for-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2025 men's final rankings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/picklepedia.org\/player\/federico-staksrud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Picklepedia &#8211; Profile<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u30d5\u30a7\u30c7\u30ea\u30b3\u30fb\u30b9\u30bf\u30af\u30b9\u30eb\u30c3\u30c9\uff08Federico Staksrud\u30012\u670815\u65e5\u751f\u307e\u308c\uff09\u306f\u30a2\u30eb\u30bc\u30f3\u30c1\u30f3\u30fb\u30d6\u30a8\u30ce\u30b9\u30a2\u30a4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ssp_meta_description":"\u30d5\u30a7\u30c7\u30ea\u30b3\u30fb\u30b9\u30bf\u30af\u30b9\u30eb\u30c3\u30c9\uff08Federico Staksrud\uff09\u306e\u30d7\u30ed\u30d5\u30a3\u30fc\u30eb\u30fb\u6226\u7e3e\u30fb\u30d7\u30ec\u30fc\u30b9\u30bf\u30a4\u30eb\u3092\u5fb9\u5e95\u89e3\u8aac\u3002\u30d4\u30c3\u30af\u30eb\u30dc\u30fc\u30eb\u9078\u624b\u56f3\u9451\u3002","swell_btn_cv_data":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[105,57,113],"player_country":[138],"player_level":[148],"player_hand":[152],"player_gender":[154],"region":[1973],"class_list":["post-1033","player","type-player","status-publish","hentry","category-overseas","tag-ppa","tag-us","tag-pro-player","player_country-usa","player_level-pro","player_hand-right","player_gender-male","region-united-states"],"acf":{"dupr_rating":"","achievements":"","sns_x":"","sns_ig":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/player\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/player"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/player"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"player_country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/player_country?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"player_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/player_level?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"player_hand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/player_hand?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"player_gender","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/player_gender?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}