{"id":1037,"date":"2026-04-09T02:39:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/player\/yana-grechkina\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:39:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:39:59","slug":"yana-grechkina","status":"publish","type":"player","link":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/player\/yana-grechkina\/","title":{"rendered":"Yana Grechkina\uff5cA much-watched pro from Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yana Grechkina (married name: Newell)<\/strong>is a professional pickleball player from Vladimir, Russia. She now lives in Kansas City, Missouri. On the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) women's tennis team, she contributed to championship wins in two straight years, 2018 and 2019. She majored in accounting and business management.<\/p>\n<h2>Switching to pickleball<\/h2>\n<p>She discovered pickleball as a weekend pastime during college and decided to turn pro as her tennis career ended. As of May 2025 she had played 50 tournaments, building a career of 403 matches.<\/p>\n<h2>On-court and off-court activity<\/h2>\n<p>Alongside her work as a pro player,<a href=\"\/en\/tournament\/ppa-tour-2026\/\">PPA Tour<\/a>she has a unique career working as an accountant. Her husband Ben Newell is also a pro pickleball player, and they are known as a couple who thrive both on and off the court. She is also active as a member of the Chicken N Pickle pro team.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/tournament\/ppa-tour-2026\/\">PPA Tour 2026<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/venue\/chicken-n-pickle-usa\/\">Chicken N Pickle facility overview<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Reference Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/chickennpickle.com\/yana-grechkina-on-team-chicken-n-pickle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicken N Pickle Official<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kcroos.com\/sports\/womens-tennis\/roster\/yana-grechkina\/3659\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KC Roos &#8211; UMKC Tennis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u30e4\u30ca\u30fb\u30b0\u30ec\u30c1\u30ad\u30ca\uff08Yana Grechkina\u3001\u73fe\u59d3\uff1a\u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30a6\u30a7\u30eb\/Newell\uff09\u306f\u30ed\u30b7\u30a2\u30fb\u30a6\u30e9\u30b8\u30fc\u30df\u30eb\u51fa\u8eab\u306e [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ssp_meta_description":"\u30e4\u30ca\u30fb\u30b0\u30ec\u30c1\u30ad\u30ca\uff08Yana Grechkina\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":[105,113],"player_country":[138],"player_level":[148],"player_hand":[152],"player_gender":[155],"region":[1973],"class_list":["post-1037","player","type-player","status-publish","hentry","category-overseas","tag-ppa","tag-pro-player","player_country-usa","player_level-pro","player_hand-right","player_gender-female","region-united-states"],"acf":{"dupr_rating":"","achievements":"","sns_x":"","sns_ig":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/player\/1037","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=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"player_country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/player_country?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"player_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/player_level?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"player_hand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/player_hand?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"player_gender","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/player_gender?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}