Danni-Elle Townsend

Female

Danni-Elle Townsend is a professional pickleball player from Currumbin Waters, on the Gold Coast in Australia. She comes from a table tennis family in which both her parents played at a national level, and she represented Australia in that sport internationally, competing in Portugal and Tunisia and training in Japan. Townsend took up pickleball on the side with her mother and stepfather and quickly became hooked. She has competed in Australia's National Pickleball League, playing in both of its seasons in 2024. Her brothers, Wade and Kane, are table tennis pros who have twice competed for Australia at the Commonwealth Games.