Friday Pickleball Signs First-Ever Pro, Rachel Rohrabacher

The partnership will bring a signature paddle for Rachel called the Aura – Friday's first full-foam model

Friday Pickleball has some big news to share: not only is the fun-loving content-turned-paddle brand entering the pro game, they're coming out of the gate with one of the biggest names in the sport.

As of a few minutes ago, Rachel Rohrabacher is officially Friday Pickleball's first-ever sponsored pro.

"We are so unbelievably excited to have Rachel on the Friday team!" Friday Co-founder Jake Triplett told The Dink.

"Getting to see her compete against the best in the world with a Friday paddle is going to be surreal."

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A signature paddle in the works

Next week at PPA Masters, Rachel will be playing with the brand's new Friday Fever 102E, an elongated model featuring dual edge foam, interior rubber perimeter weighting, an 8mm polypropylene core, and an extended 5.5-inch handle that retails for just $102.

Soon though, Triplett tells me, she will be getting an all-foam signature paddle called the Aura.

Rachel is currently ranked #5 in women's doubles and #7 in mixed doubles on the PPA Tour, and earned 10 total PPA medals in 2025.

She signed with Selkirk in December 2023.

She's also a nominee in The 120/Life Dink Awards "Women's Player of the Year" category (voting is open now).

First content, then the world

Friday Pickleball debuted on YouTube in June of 2023, the brainchild of founders Jake Triplett, Isaac McDonald, and Scott Peck.

Since then, they've produced hundreds of hilarious videos accruing millions of total views, including satirical skits on the culture of rec-play, their own mismatched battles of the sexes, instructional content with top pros like Anna Bright and Kate Fahey, Connor Garnett, Riley Newman, and others, and various on-court escapades including frying pans, wooden paddles, inflatable suits, and a $10 million pickleball compound in Palm Springs.

Along the way, they started producing pickleball paddles of their own.

But it wasn't until their Gen-3 Fever launched in May of 2025 that more advanced pickleball players started taking their paddle game more seriously.

Now, they're taking the next step – and it's a big one – entering the pro ranks among major brands like JOOLA, Selkirk, CRBN, Franklin and others.

They're not stopping with Rachel, either; this weekend, the brand will announce a top men's pro as their second signed pro.