Three Badminton Champions Are Playing Pickleball This August
Andrew Lee91 Pickleball Team Event Championship 2026 by SEIKO runs 25 August 2026 at 91 Pickleball Clubhouse in USJ Subang. Top mixed doubles teams from across Malaysia will compete for the title over a full day of play. The tournament carries a total RM28,888 prize pool, and the day includes a special exhibition and Meet & Greet featuring three real Malaysian badminton champions alongside a leading local pickleball player.
Tournament Details
Registration: RM1,000 per team (each team 6-8 players), via Sports Sync.
Tournament Date: 25 August 2026 (Tuesday), 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
Venue: 91 Pickleball Clubhouse, L2 Giant USJ, Persiaran Subang Permai, Subang Jaya.
Registration Limit: Not stated in the tournament's own posts.
Schedule
- 7:30 AM - 7:50 AM: Registration
- 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Round Robin (Group Stage)
- 12:00 PM - 12:40 PM: Exhibition Match
- 12:40 PM - 1:00 PM: Meet and Greet & Photo Session
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Quarter Final
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Semi Final
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM: 3rd/4th Placing & Final
Divisions & Format
The field splits into three Mixed Doubles brackets by combined team DUPR, each run as a group stage into a knockout bracket:
- Combined DUPR 5.599
- Combined DUPR 6.299
- Combined DUPR 7.099
Each player can only play once per match, and groups run 4 teams each, with the top 2 from every group advancing to the Quarter Final knockout stage. Unrated players are scored at DUPR 2.5 for the combined-team calculation, and a one-minute timeout is allowed per match. Scoring runs rally-to-21 with no deuce at every stage, from the Round Robin through the Final, and a Round Robin tie is broken first by points difference, then by total points won.
Prize Pool
- Champion: RM5,000 + Prizes + Medal
- 1st Runner Up: RM3,000 + Prizes + Medal
- 2nd Runner Up: RM1,500 + Prizes + Medal
- 3rd Runner Up: RM1,000 + Prizes + Medal
The tournament's own graphic shows this exact payout structure under its Team Event heading spanning all three combined-DUPR brackets; how the full RM28,888 splits across the three individual divisions is not broken out separately in the tournament's own posts.
The real draw beyond the bracket is the noon exhibition. Chan Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying, Malaysia's Rio 2016 Olympic silver medallists in mixed doubles badminton, and Aaron Chia, world champion in men's doubles, will play an exhibition match and Meet & Greet alongside pickleball player Sabrina Gee, who has competed at events including the PPA Asia 500 Sansan Tokyo Open. Three of Malaysia's most decorated badminton names crossing over to a pickleball court, even briefly, is the kind of exposure a local club tournament rarely gets on its own.
Backing a Growing Clubhouse
SEIKO takes the main sponsor role, with Protech XP Pickleball, CEEVO, GIGI Coffee, Movt360, and Natural Healing as co-sponsors and partners. 91 Pickleball Clubhouse itself runs a multi-location chain across USJ Subang, Ipoh, Melaka, Kota Bharu, and Johor in Malaysia, plus a Ho Chi Minh City location in Vietnam, and is related to the separately tracked 91 Tournaments series that has been building out its own Kelantan Tour the same month.
This article is based on social media posts and historical data tracked by Pickle361.
