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2nd Place, Men's Pro Doubles with Callan Dawson, 2021
3rd Place, Men's Pro Singles, 2021

18 year old JW Johnson burst onto the Pickleball scene in 2021, winning 4 singles titles.  His signature victory came in the semi-finals of the Jigsaw Tournament of Champions in August, where he snapped Ben Johns 170 match singles win streak. He went on to beat Tyson McGuffin to capture his first TOC title.  Johnson has continued his triumph ways in 2022,  a total of 64 medals (35 Gold / 20 Silver / 9 Bronze) and 35 titles thus far. His 23 doubles titles  in 2022 was accomplished while playing with 8 different partners. The Florida Smash made Johnson the first overall male selected in the 2022 MLP draft. Johnson led the Smash to a second place finish at the first MLP event of the year in Austin, Texas. Johnson has enjoyed great success on the PPA Tour, winning four singles titles and going 27-2 for the year.  During the spring, Johnson won a personal record 25 straight singles matches over a 6 tournament stretch. As of October 30, 2022, Johnson is ranked #1 in the APP combined rankings and is #1 in singles and mixed doubles.

Johnson grew up in Pittsburg, Kansas. He was a highly ranked tennis player and the family moved to Naples, Florida in 2018 to further his tennis aspirations. When the COVID pandemic hit in 2019, Johnson made the move to Pickleball and tennis was history. He would win his first professional medal, a bronze, in Men's Doubles, with Johnny Goldberg at the 2020 APP Hilton Head event. Since he was 11 years old, Johnson has kept to a restricted diet that is gluten and dairy free. Johnson's sister Jorja and mother Julie are two of the top players in Women's Pro and Women's Senior Pro.