Simone Jardim

Simone Jardim is a Brazilian-American professional pickleball player, born on November 7, 1979, who was ranked the number one woman player in the world from 2016 to 2020. She grew up in Santa Maria, Brazil, moved to the United States at eighteen to play college tennis, and later served as head tennis coach at Michigan State University from 2009 to 2016. She became a professional pickleball player in 2015 and took it up full time in 2016. She won the women's singles division of the U.S. Open four years in a row and the U.S. Open triple crown in singles, doubles and mixed doubles in 2017 and 2018. For a time she held the record for the most women's Pro Pickleball Association titles, with 32, and in 2024 she was inducted into the Pickleball Hall of Fame.