Outreach Partner
Mumbai's oldest daily is covering the Cup
The Free Press Journal is the Outreach Partner of the Mumbai Pickleball Cup. Their team is coming to the venue on the day to report on the tournament and interview players, and some of the people playing will end up in the coverage.
Mumbai Pickleball Cup S2 · 27 September 2026 · Stratum Play, Malad West, Mumbai
- Publishing since
- 1928
- The city's own daily
- Mumbai
- Reporting from the courts
- On the day
- Where the coverage runs
- Print & web
What it means if you enter
Your tournament actually gets reported
Club tournaments come and go in this city without a word written about them. This one has a newspaper at the venue. Whatever happens on court on the day, the upset in the quarter-finals or the final that goes to the wire, someone is there to write it down.
You might be interviewed
Their reporters will be talking to players between matches: why you started, who you came with, how the day is going. You are under no obligation to say yes, and nobody will chase you for a quote. But if you want to talk about your game, there is somebody there to listen.
Some players will be in the write-up
Not everyone, and we cannot promise it will be you, because what runs is the paper's call, not ours. But a few of the players at the Cup will find themselves named in a Mumbai daily, which is a nicer thing to keep than a medal.
It is how the game grows here
Every player reading about a tournament in Malad is someone who might turn up to the next one. Coverage is the difference between a sport a few people have heard of and one their neighbours play, and that is worth as much to the Cup as any prize money.
Who gets written about
These are entrants from the last Cup: club players from around Malad, Borivali and the western suburbs, most of whom picked the game up in the last couple of years. That is who the paper is coming to meet: not professionals, but the people actually filling the courts in this city on a weekday evening.
The coverage runs in the paper and on their site. We will put whatever appears in front of everyone who played, so if you are in it you will not have to go looking.
Who The Free Press Journal are
The Free Press Journal has been published in Mumbai since 1928. It was started by Swaminathan Sadanand as the first Indian-owned English daily to come out of this city, and it spent its early years backing the independence movement at some cost to itself: the paper was penalised and its copies seized more than once in the 1930s.
Nearly a hundred years later it is still a Mumbai paper, which is the part that matters here. A neighbourhood tournament in Malad West is exactly the kind of thing a city paper should be writing about, and we are glad they think so too.
Mumbai Pickleball Cup S2
Come and be part of it on 27 September 2026
Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles at Stratum Play, Malad West, Mumbai. 16 entries a category, at least 3 matches guaranteed, ₹1,500 per entry, and a ₹30,000 prize pool. Entries close 25 September 2026.
The Free Press Journal name and masthead are the property of The Free Press Journal, shown here with their agreement as Outreach Partner of the Mumbai Pickleball Cup. The photographs on this page are our own, from previous seasons of the Cup.