{"id":1241,"date":"2026-04-09T15:31:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/tournament\/ppa-fukuoka-open-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T22:08:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:08:54","slug":"ppa-fukuoka-open-2025","status":"publish","type":"tournament","link":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/tournament\/ppa-fukuoka-open-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"PPA Tour Asia Sansan Fukuoka Open 2025\uff5cJapan's first PPA Tour tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The PPA Tour Asia Sansan Fukuoka Open<\/strong>was held August 26-31, 2025, in Itoshima City, Fukuoka Prefecture,<strong>Japan's first PPA Tour tournament<\/strong>. With Sansan Inc. as title sponsor, it was a large-scale international tournament with a 1,232-player field, total prize money of US$70,000, and 1,000 PPA ranking points.<\/p>\n<h2>Tournament overview<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Dates: August 26-31, 2025<\/li>\n<li>Venue: Itoshima City (Fukuoka Prefecture)<\/li>\n<li>PPA points: 1000<\/li>\n<li>Prize money: $70,000<\/li>\n<li>Player field: 1,232<\/li>\n<li>Top seed: Connor Garnett (world No. 3 in PPA singles)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>A tournament etched into Japan's pickleball history<\/h2>\n<p>A historic event where the PPA Tour held an official tournament in Asia for the first time.<a href=\"\/en\/player\/yuta-funemizu\/\">Yuta Funamizu<\/a>It became a chance for Japanese players, too, to take part in a top-level international tournament in their own country. Following this success, in July 2026<a href=\"\/en\/tournament\/ppa-tokyo-open-2026\/\">PPA Tokyo Open<\/a>was also decided to be held.<\/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\/tournament\/ppa-tokyo-open-2026\/\">PPA Tokyo Open 2026<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/player\/yuta-funemizu\/\">Yuta Funemizu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Reference Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ppatour-asia.com\/tournament\/2025\/fukuoka-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PPA Tour Asia Fukuoka Open Official<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pickleball-japan.org\/en\/event-details\/ppafukuoka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PJF event page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"pt-listing-note\">This information is introduced based on publicly available information. To request corrections or removal of listed content, see<a href=\"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/event-listing-policy\/\">here<\/a>\u3002<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ssp_meta_description":"PPA Tour Asia Sansan\u798f\u5ca1\u30aa\u30fc\u30d7\u30f32025\u306e\u30b9\u30b1\u30b8\u30e5\u30fc\u30eb\u30fb\u7d50\u679c\u30fb\u898b\u3069\u3053\u308d\u3092\u89e3\u8aac\u3002\u30d4\u30c3\u30af\u30eb\u30dc\u30fc\u30eb\u5927\u4f1a\u30ac\u30a4\u30c9\u3002","swell_btn_cv_data":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[124,135,105,33],"tournament_level":[171],"tournament_area":[182],"tournament_year":[189],"tournament_status":[193],"region":[367],"event_type":[],"class_list":["post-1241","tournament","type-tournament","status-publish","hentry","category-tournament-info","tag-year-2025","tag-jpf","tag-ppa","tag-tournament","tournament_level-international","tournament_area-fukuoka","tournament_year-189","tournament_status-finished","region-r-fukuoka"],"acf":{"date_start":null,"date_end":null,"entry_deadline":null,"venue_name":"","is_official":false,"capacity":"","entry_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tournament\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tournament"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tournament"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"tournament_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tournament_level?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"tournament_area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tournament_area?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"tournament_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tournament_year?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"tournament_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tournament_status?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickle-times.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}