The pickleball tour is a lot of things: competitive, glamorous, exhausting. But romantic? Well, that's complicated.
In a recent episode of the "Balls Deep" podcast , hosts Ava Ignatowich and Camila Zilveti tackled one of the sport's most delicate topics: what it's actually like to date when you're living out of a suitcase, competing against your peers, and constantly in the public eye.
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Their conversation cuts through the Instagram-filtered version of tour life to reveal something messier, more human, and honestly, pretty relatable.
A Great Place to Meet, a Tough Place to Date Here's the thing about pickleball that makes it different from most sports: it's genuinely social. And co-ed by nature.
You're standing three feet from your opponent. You can talk between points. You're basically forced to make friends just to get a game going. As Zilveti points out, most recreational games require four people, so you've got to convince three other humans to like you enough to show up.
That accessibility is part of what makes the sport so appealing. People aren't showing up to the courts with their egos strapped on like armor. They're there to have fun, get some exercise, and yeah, meet people.
It's the perfect setup for romance to bloom. But, they note, the professional tour operates under completely different rules.
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