PICKLE BALL LAUNCH

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Pickleball is picking up pace in Trinidad and Tobago. Monday's launch at the Chinese Association courts highlighted just how quickly the sport is gaining interest.  In partnership with SPIRIT Mas, organisers say they're hoping to build a community around the fast-growing, easy-to-learn racquet sport...

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00:00Well, the pickleball courts at the Chinese Association of TNT held the action for the

00:04inaugural Spirit Mask Pickleball Invitational. The tournament featured 17 teams. Organizer

00:10of the event, Adrian Schoon, says the objective is to make it bigger and better and to provide

00:14a social experience.

00:16The objective is just to bring different communities together. Us at Spirit, we are

00:20a community. You know, last year one of our directors insisted that we give our pickleball

00:25rackets in all our goodie bags. So we had 4,000 masqueraders receiving these rackets and it

00:31just happened at the same time with the fastest growing sport all over the world, which is

00:35pickleball. So we saw some synergies there.

00:38He added the tournament will be broken down to quarterfinals, semifinals and a final with

00:43prizes to be won. And there are different divisions for those with different competitive levels.

00:49There's competitive and socials. Somebody like me is in socials, right, because I'm not a professional

00:53pickleball player, but we have some national pickleball players that have signed up as well.

00:58So there's a competitive side and there's a fun side as well. And we got a lot of sponsorship

01:02from Stamina as well.

01:03He says based on the turnout, they will be bringing it back again.

01:06Especially with the response that we have today, it's very full. So I anticipate that

01:11next year is going to be twice as big. We may need to get a bigger venue, but CAT has been

01:15very good to us, the Chinese Association. So we want to do this with them annually.

01:20How far do you see pickleball growing in Trinidad and Tobago?

01:22I see it taking over many, many sports, specifically because of the fact that all demographics can

01:28play. I used to play football for recreation, but I enjoyed my ACL. I can no longer play

01:32football. But pickleball is a little bit easier for me to play and I still get that good cardio in.

01:36C224, TB6 Sport.

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