Noe Khlif
At a glance
- Tour
- PPA
- Age
- NaN
- Handedness
- right
- Hometown
- Marseille, France
- Slams won
- 0
- Singles rank
- #9
- Doubles rank
- Unranked
- Mixed rank
- Unranked
- Paddle sponsor
- JOOLA — Pro V
Noe Khlif is the highest-ranked French player on the PPA Tour and one of a small but growing cohort of European tennis crossovers making the switch to pro pickleball.
Career
The #1 junior tennis player in France in 2012 and a 3x French national champion at the junior level, Khlif played D1 tennis at the University of Illinois — winning the Big Ten conference and reaching the NCAA Elite 8. He won The Kitchen Open ($25K prize) and the APP Pro Shootout Chicago as he climbed into PPA contention.
He plays for the New Jersey 5s in MLP and trains out of the Miami Pickleball Club. Currently World #9 in men's singles.
Playing style
Right-handed. JOOLA Pro V (the same paddle as Federico Staksrud and John Lucian Goins). European clay-court tennis background shows in his patience constructing points; he's less reliant on the early third-shot drive than the average top-10 American pro.