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Cebu hosts pickleball event

Cebu will host a major pickleball event as Pickle Fest 2026 opens on March 11, 2026 at Net and Paddle Cebu City, headlined by the PCL Rising Stars U19 Sectional Tournament. The five-day event follows its staging in Davao City and marks a return to Cebu, where pickleball was first introduced in the Philippines through a clinic in 2016. Since then, the sport has grown with more than 320 registered clubs nationwide.

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00:007-7-10
00:08Side out?
00:09Yes, I'm not sorry.
00:11To be honest,
00:13there's a lot of players are still growing.
00:16I can't even doubt in this story.
00:19There's a lot of
00:19courses being built
00:21and there's more coming.
00:24And we know that St. Louis, like I said,
00:26the heart of the film is sort of very similar
00:28for access to everyone.
00:31So, school right now,
00:32when it comes to numbers,
00:34I can't figure out how big it is,
00:36but it's become really, really big.
00:38And there's a lot of businesses
00:40right now, I'm going to build
00:42a lot of courses.
00:43Before the end of this year,
00:46we're going to have an aim
00:47to have more courses from the rest of the
00:50islands.
00:51The Messiah is going to be now.
00:55My follow-up question is,
00:57what is the most common age
00:59category, or the
01:00age groups of the lower
01:03pickleball community here in Singapore?
01:05Historically, when I first started
01:07playing football back in Canada
01:09in 2017,
01:10mostly it plays by older people.
01:13Older people.
01:14But right now, the after ones are getting into it.
01:17And the school's getting into it.
01:19But right now, there's more players
01:21playing football games
01:22on between 40s to 50s.
01:25And I've been training someone,
01:27she's 86 years old.
01:29And I play also
01:31at 82 years old back in Canada.
01:33But the school right now is getting into it.
01:36And in fact,
01:36I've been training and coaching
01:38with Harvard School, Southwest School,
01:42elementary and high school.
01:43So I trained them.
01:45So the schools are getting into it now.
01:47Now that the concessions are
01:49always playing football
01:51plus the younger ones coming in,
01:54they changed the concessions
01:55that was getting into it now.
01:58So we have more
01:59young girls who are getting into it.
02:02We're looking forward to it.
02:03Thank you so much for playing.
02:05Playing with a 7-year-old
02:07and 12-year-old teenagers.
02:11Your grandmother,
02:13your mother-father,
02:15and everybody in between.
02:17Everybody in between.
02:19So it is really
02:20an all-inclusive sport.
02:25So it's a fun sport.
02:27Very social.
02:29And after all,
02:31you know,
02:32us, even here in the Philippines,
02:34even anywhere in Canada,
02:36United States,
02:38everywhere,
02:40pickleball is so much fun.
02:43The Federation,
02:44the Philippine Pickleball Federation
02:47will help them
02:48happily grow the sport.
02:50We know that
02:53if you're just a government,
02:55you need to help.
02:56So now I'm in the private sector.
02:59We are supporting the NSA.
03:01PSE also is also supporting the NSA.
03:04the two of us
03:05so that we can grow the sport.
03:07So, marami kayong saulam ng piso?
03:09We started in Dabao,
03:13and then we had one yesterday
03:15sa Manila,
03:16and then now in Cebu.
03:17So hopefully every year
03:19we'll start growing this.
03:21Are you the one who build this?
03:22No, we're aptly partnered
03:24with the Venue Renda.
03:26Nice.
03:27So I'm a Venue owner.
03:28Congratulations.
03:29Thank you so much.
03:52Thank you for joining us.
03:54You're welcome.
03:58To be my place,
03:58If you have more.
03:59If you'd like to invite you to
03:59a shout-out room.
03:59Beep!
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