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Life Lessons from Pickleball™
E48: Pablo Granados: From Soccer Star to Pickleball Ambassador
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How can pickleball help transform a life, rebuild health, and create community across every age, background, and skill level?
In this episode, Pablo Granados shares his remarkable journey from growing up in Costa Rica dreaming of soccer, to surviving a life-threatening medical crisis, moving to the United States, struggling with major health challenges, and eventually finding a new path through pickleball. Pablo talks about his early years as a competitive soccer player, the injuries that changed his direction, the devastating surgery complications that nearly took his life, and the difficult seasons that followed as he gained weight, lost confidence, and searched for a fresh start.
Pablo also shares how pickleball entered his life at exactly the right time, beginning with one welcoming moment at the YMCA that opened the door to a completely new future. He reflects on losing more than 100 pounds, rediscovering competition, becoming a USA Pickleball ambassador, running tournaments with a player-first mindset, and eventually stepping into leadership as general manager and tournament director at Pickleball Kingdom. Along the way, he opens up about the mistakes he made, the lessons he learned, and why kindness, inclusion, and remembering where you came from matter so much in the pickleball community.
This is an uplifting and heartfelt conversation about pickleball, Costa Rica, health transformation, weight loss, community, Pickleball Kingdom, tournament directing, sportsmanship, inclusion, teaching, resilience, and the life lessons that remind us never to underestimate anyone and never to say no to the chance to welcome someone in.
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Journey from Costa Rica to Pickleball
Speaker 1Hi , I'm Shelly Maurer and I'm Cher Emrick .
Speaker 2Welcome to Life Lessons from Pickleball , where we engage with pickleball players from around the world about life on and off the court .
Speaker 1Thanks for joining us . Welcome everyone to Life Lessons from Pickleball , and we've got some exciting news . So , before we introduce our guest , we wanted to let you know that we have just reached 2,500 downloads and we thank you , our amazing listeners , for being a part of this journey with us . Your support , your likes , your shares and your love for the game keep us inspired to bring you more life lessons from Pickleball . Thank you so much . And today , how grateful are we to have with us Pablo Granados . Pablo , you are originally from Costa Rica , but currently living in Lake Stevens , washington , as general manager and tournament director at Pickleball Kingdom .
Speaker 2Pablo , before we hear about your work with Pickleball Kingdom , you have quite a personal journey to share . Why don't you start by telling us when and why you left Costa Rica ?
Speaker 3Well , let's see how many . It's only 30 minutes , but we'll try to put it in there . Right , my life it's , I think . I think I'm going to do a book eventually . That's what my kids keep telling me . I too many stories , but no , I grew up so growing up in costa rica , right , our life was soccer from the beginning . Right , my first gift was a soccer ball . Right , I mean hard to hide that in under the christmas tree , right , um , I'm from a generation of , uh , a lot of really , really good players in costa rica . So it was great , right , growing up with all these athletes . But obviously I had to work a little harder . Funniest thing I didn't even make the soccer team in my high school . I had to go to high school , right , because I was still 15 . I didn't even make the team , so I was a little disappointed . But when I was about 15 , I had a great opportunity to come and play a soccer tournament in Dallas , texas . It opened a lot of opportunities for me to go to other countries . I ended up going to Europe Norway and Germany a little bit , and Netherlands , meet different people , expand my horizons and just see the world which , uh , I it was the first one in my family , so it was it was great right wow
Speaker 3unfortunately yeah , unfortunately , I think um , a very improper foundation of a muscle building and stuff like that led to a couple of bad injuries and soccer got cut short a little bit . So I ended up going to Costa Rica . One of the hardest things about being outside of your country , especially when we grow up so close together , is that when you have a headache or you have a stomachache or anything hurts or anything doesn't feel great , you think about your family , right For sure hurts or anything doesn't feel great . You think about your family , right and um for sure they are thousands of miles away and it's not easy to get there , right , so it's almost like dealing with it . But , um , yeah , I remember I came back to my country and you know I was ready to recover .
Speaker 3Um , I had a . I went to the hospital because I had a bad , a stomach ache , and the doctor thought that it was appendicitis or something . Uh , they ended up open me up . They opened me up . The doctor apparently said , oh , it's not that , but let's get rid of it because you don't need it for anything , right ? Um that that turned into a . I guess there was my intestine . They kind of clipped it , so it was open and it led to . I don't remember a lot of the things , I remember just my mom saying that you know , at some point they say that I was gone , that the doctor had called it and they thought you were dead .
Speaker 3They thought you were dying apparently one of the doctors said that I was already dead .
Speaker 1That you had died .
Speaker 3Pablo , I know .
Speaker 1And my .
Speaker 3My mom said that there was another doctor who wasn't even supposed to be there and he was like hey , let me give him a chance , let me give him a chance , right , and I don't . Again , I don't know really what happened , because I was underage and my mom has never really released a lot of information . She doesn't like to go back to that stuff , and the reason why I always bring up that story is because there's always been the right person at the right time for me .
Speaker 3And that jumped into Pickleball 2 , right . So I ended up coming to the United States and I went from an athlete of I don't know 200 pounds to 330 pounds in I don't know a year and a half or two years , maybe .
Speaker 1Wow , Now was this after your surgery where they thought you had died .
Speaker 3Yeah , that was when I was about 20 , 20 to 22 is when I gained most of my weight and it was in a . I was in a was about 20 . 20 to 22 is when I gained most of my weight .
Speaker 2Okay .
Speaker 3And I was in a really bad place . You know , when you are an athlete I mean professional pickleballers know it too right that you eat a lot , but you exercise a lot right .
Speaker 3I was eating a lot and I wasn't exercising at all , so obviously you have to go somewhere . And it just became a lifestyle , right , it became eating and working and eating and working and video games . At that point I was not married yet with my first wife . Eventually I met her , we had our baby daughter , isabella , and things of life . You know , sometimes things don't work out . I had a family , my family , that used to live in Salt Lake . They had moved to Washington , so I ended up coming to visit . I decided , hey , washington is my place . It's rainy , it's gray , I can be outside a lot . Right , it's weird . Right , it's weird . Right , it's weird . Right , it reminded me a lot of Norway and Costa Rica and that aspect of you know , just weather-wise , right , I got again the right people at the right time . I met my wife in Snohomish she's near my house in a coffee place . I never thought that it was going to work because she didn't like coffee and I was like , who doesn't like coffee ? Right , like we went for coffee . She didn't even like coffee .
Speaker 1but now is this your first wife , pablo that was my second wife , that was so . So you completed your first marriage , and then you moved to washington and then I moved to washington . Yeah and then I was uh , I was .
Speaker 3I had my daughter full time , so I was working from home for Amazon and then studying a little bit because I wanted to , you know , just make a better thing . And then I met my second wife , or my now wife .
Speaker 1Your current wife , my current wife .
Speaker 3And she was very . She was kind of annoying because she liked to go to the gym and she liked to run around and she liked to be all energetic and I like it too . But I like to do that while I'm doing something , I have to be playing a game , threadmills and machines and all that stuff . That's not for me .
Speaker 2I'm with you , Pablo , I'm with you . I'm with you .
Speaker 1Pablo , I'm with you .
Speaker 3So I remember before COVID I was having really bad knee pain , right from the weight obviously , and I was not sleeping very well . I went to the doctor . He said well , you're going to have to have this machine to sleep for the rest of your life . I came home and my wife said hey , let's go to the YMCA . I mean you can just walk around the treadmill . She worked in the YMCA before , so she was part of that community , right . And I was like man , okay , let's do it . As I'm walking in I'm already upset because I don't want to be there . And it's kind of funny . You go through the front desk and everybody is so happy .
Speaker 3And it's kind of funny , you go through you know the front desk and everybody's so happy and I turn around and there's a gym right in the corner , right before you went to the terminal , and I was like , oh , I hope there's basketball or something , because I could play a little basketball , right . I mean , I didn't know , I didn't grow up with any other sport , but I was like basketball . And I looked through this small window , because it has those little windows like in the classrooms , right oh yeah and , and I see all these old people playing pickleball , right and .
Speaker 3But I always let you know what it was right . It's like , oh , they're just hitting a ball from one side to the other . Um , the funny thing is that they only meet I think at that point they only met two days a
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Speaker 3week for like an hour and a half , because that's has , that's how much the gyms were given at that point for that . So I was again , right time , right place , right time , right . So I tell my wife like , hey , let me go find out what they're playing right . And I was like , hey , maybe this will lift my morale about winning , about winning on something . Again right . So I go in and I meet this amazing individual , tom lamoureux . Um , he's a well-known in our community . He , I think he's the true ambassador of pickleball in in what's his name what's his name ?
Speaker 3tom lamoureux . Okay , um , yeah . So you know , when I get there , there was two courts , eight people playing , there's six people sitting . I've never seen so many braces in my life , I've never seen so many special shoes . I make jokes with them after a while and I tell them , like I think there was about 5,000 years in this gym that day that I walked in and I'm like , hey , so , um , I was like hey , he was a heater , grab a paddle . Right , he gave me a paddle that I still have . I love that paddle . Um , I start playing with him and you know , I still have a little ability , so I'm just sliding around and everything and hitting it . I I got pickled . That's the first time that I heard the word pickle , right and I was like and someone tells me , hey , that's no good .
Speaker 3And I'll say what do you mean ? It's 11-0 . And I was like , oh yeah , that was awful right . And that was the beginning . He opened the doors for me . He was super welcoming . He started pickleball again in our community with getting courts , talking to the school districts , even getting to get some courts on the city to open . Um , he passed away a few years ago but he will always be remembered . I mean , I will never forget what he did for me in our community .
Speaker 3He was the president of the club , marysville pickleball club . Um , he wanted me to be on the board because I had understanding on how to run leagues and it was all crossover from soccer stuff , right , and how to do Ron Robbins , and I've always been like I'm always into things , right . So they brought me to the board At that point . I guess that was , you know , when COVID was already in the middle of it , right , and I'm thinking to myself , hey , I'm not too bad at this , maybe I'll be a pro one day . It lasted a month , but , uh , but I told myself I was like I really want to compete . Right , I'm a competitor . Um , so if I want to compete , I'm going to have to do something about my health . And uh , yeah , it's a hundred pounds later . I am , I mean , wow you dropped a hundred pounds .
Speaker 3I dropped a hundred pounds , yeah it's been a combination of uh and it's been . It's not really what I do in the pickleball court because I don't move a lot . Um , I make my partner move . Smart guy . I tell my mixed partner .
Speaker 3I was like , hey , all this , I'll stay right here , but yeah , I mean that led to you know where I am today , with all this stuff involving my family too my wife and my kids and everybody that I know . It's been difficult . I think Pickleball has been a tough road . I think that it grew so fast . Before the Pickleball Kingdom . I became a Pickleball director because I saw a need . I used to go to tournaments and pay a lot of money for them and play 45 minutes and I was out . I was like we should be getting a little bit more out of this . So I started organizing tournaments where players will get more out of it , and if you lost all your games , you still got five or six games right .
Speaker 3For about the same price , right , and so people started appreciating that and there are more clubs reaching out to me to run their events . Again , it's been tough . I mean , there's just like everything in life . There's people that it's not very nice in the Pickleball community , right , but it's good . It builds character and I think it helps us understand who we need to help or how we can help people , right , and I think it kind of happened to me at some point . Right , we got better and and we forgot I forgot where I came from , too , right I was like why am I not playing with these people anymore , right ?
Speaker 3I mean , they're not obviously my level , but that was me not long ago , right ?
Speaker 3I mean five years is a long time ago , but it isn't really that far along a long long time ago , um , so I don't know , I , I , I started playing tournaments with my wife and my wife she is the opposite of athletic when it comes to sports . Right , she can do , she can walk and she can run four miles and she can go on the mountains and do all this crazy stuff . But if we give , if I give , her sport equipment , she doesn't know what to do with it . Right ? But pickable was a good opportunity for us to try and , yeah , you know , I guess one of the lessons that I got from pickable is that I started playing with her and I started to get I would get frustrated when we were playing against other teams and they realized that she was the less skilled player and they were always hated to her . And , of course , it was a tournament , so people is there competing .
Speaker 1And .
Speaker 3I would get mad . I remember one time I broke a paddle of how upset I was that we lost right and I told myself I was like this is not why I joined Pickable . This is not what Pickable is all about , right ? I mean , we're on the court to have a good time , even when we're competing .
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Speaker 3I love players that smile or just have a chuckle after things that happen on the court , right ? So I have to have a hard reset . I have to understand why we do it and who we do it with and for . We have to have that clear mind .
Speaker 2It's important , every time we step on the court , we should look at ourselves as an ambassador for the sport , because we don't know the journey or the story of the person on the other side of the court or how it will affect them . Just like you said , if you had been treated differently that first day when you showed up , you might not have liked pickleball and your story would be different than it is today .
Speaker 3Right , oh , absolutely , and .
Speaker 2I can .
Speaker 3I can tell you that I mean I've had those experiences , right . I mean I sometimes I will walk into a court and people , were they will , they will tell me like hey , you're not good enough to be here , right , like you need to come back boy , right ? And I mean , I'm not going to say that I don't hold grudges , but I still remember those times , right .
Speaker 2It was painful .
Speaker 3It is painful , right it is .
Speaker 3Only because I think , obviously and I agree , you know higher level players , they want to have good games , right , but I think that they also we , or just in general , we have to make ourselves available to everybody else . And because and I think my path is the same path that a lot , of , a lot of people took , right , I became a US Pickleball ambassador . I started to reach out to brands out there to see how they could help the community . Because I'm always been into helping children . I'm a school , a middle school teacher too , right . So I always like to coach kids , right . So I tell Selker hey , can you send me a few dozen paddles so I can give them away to kids ? Right , and because the beauty of this sport that I try to tell people is look , this is maybe the only sport where the grandparent can play with his seven-year-old great-grandkid or grandkid , right , mm-hmm , so true , his seven-year-old great grandkid or grandkid , right .
Speaker 3So I mean I can do that , I can do basketball with my son , but he's gonna be faster and stronger than me , right ? Uh , I can do basketball with him , he's gonna push me away . So when we're in the pickleball court , uh , one of my best experiences is I was in arizona and I'm driving by gil Gilbert and I saw this sign that says pickable tournament and I'm like , oh , perfect , let's go right . And I go in and I tell him I was like hey , do you have any spots ? And he's like , oh , I think there's one person who needs someone for a mixed doubles . And so I was like , sure , sign me in , maggie or Mary , something M I remember , right , big . I jump in and I see they were like , oh , she's right there . And when I look , she's putting her hat and she's tying her shoes and I come over . I didn't at that point , I didn't know , but so she was 93 at that point 93 years old 93 , right .
Speaker 3And this is when I'm still thinking I want to compete right . And I tell myself what did I get myself into right ? This is what I want to tell you . By the time that we were playing the bronze medal match , I told her you take care of all this court , because I have no business here . She was boom , boom , boom , boom , boom , wow .
Speaker 3It got to a point where she was super , the nicest ever . She told me she was like hey , you need to work a little harder on the court . And I'm thinking like , hey , what 93-year-old tells a 35-year-old that he needs to work ? I love that . It's one of the best stories that I ever had . Hey , what 93-year-old tells a 35-year-old that he needs to ? It's one of the best stories that I ever had . And I was like again , you know ? I mean , we don't know , like you say , we don't know where people come from of you know their history , their past or anything . I went into the court thinking this is going to be a bad experience and it was one of the best experiences ever , ever in my life .
Speaker 3And I wish that I would have kept her info . I thought that I was going to be going more to Arizona , a little bit more to see her , but it was an inspiration . I was like well , at least I have a game that I can do for the next 60 years , Right .
Speaker 3And so , so I . That's why I appreciate pickleball in that way . Right , Because there are four people from different places , from different languages . Sometimes I blurt things out in Spanish that people go , hey , that's a bad word in Spanish . I was like , yeah , but I missed it . I love that part of the sport . It is , it is so inclusive . I've never seen anything like this .
Speaker 1We haven't either it's a level playing field once you step ? On the court like doesn't matter your age , your ethnicity , your language , your , even your ability . There are , there are groups that
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Speaker 1help those with different abilities to be able to play the game just like everybody . I mean , it's just an amazing thing . So how did you go from playing pickleball to working with Pickleball Kingdom as a general manager and now as the tournament director as well ?
Speaker 3as the tournament director as well . Well , so I think that if I go back when , you know I was not very nice or where I lost the understanding of what pickleball was you know part of my life , I guess , right when I was getting mad or the paddle , breaking the paddle or just upset about playing with certain people , I did a reset and I was like you know what ? I'm gonna enjoy this sport . Right , I feel better now and I can still compete . I still have friends so we can go and compete other days . Um , so I started meeting a lot of people and , uh , I started to tell them you know my story and what pickleball was all about . Um , the the funniest thing is that I I core group of people that I have right now , friends that I I mean , they're not even friends anymore , they're family , right .
Speaker 3I don't think that I would ever met them under any other circumstance , right ? We're talking cultural views , political views , languages , ages . I mean , I have 80-year-old friends , I have 15-year-old Ella , I have 15-year-old Ella . You met Ella , right ?
Speaker 1Yes , she was on our show .
Speaker 3Right and I don't get to meet any of those people without Pickleball right Good point . I started building those relationships and when I hear , when I was listening to her podcast , I appreciate what she does for the community and and how hard she has , how far , how she fought to to be where she is , she she's one of those witnesses of how hard I've worked to make things better for people and that led to .
Speaker 3Um , I was actually just , I was just working my middle school uh gig and I had a call from uh , one of the investors at pickable kingdom , and he'll say , hey , would you like to give this a try ? Right ? I mean , I've been trying to tell my wife that I want to work in pickable for so long and she keeps rejecting me right away . Right , she's very probal , so she's very scared of it um but I was like well .
Speaker 3I can . I can entertain it right . I mean , it is still a new industry , and um . So I met Mara and John . That you also talked to them , oh my goodness yes incredible people , right .
Speaker 3And and then Ed , one of the investors , the one who brought me in he was like hey , I really want you to be part of this . You people know who you are and people appreciate how you work with the community and stuff like that , and I appreciate it . You know , it's nice to make a little extra money , but when I tell people there's really not a lot of money in it because it's a lot of work , um , I at least , I at least want to enjoy it , right , so now I enjoy . When I'm running a tournament , I actually have to take my wife because she's super like also , you know . So she , it drives her crazy when I my papers are everywhere .
Speaker 1She's very organized .
Speaker 3Yeah . A little too much , but I appreciate it because then she does that and I and I can walk around and talk to the community , right . And as much as I love to watch the 5.0s playing and , you know , showing some amazing skills , I love to watch those beginners just having a laugh every time that they miss a shot , right , it's like yes or making a great play right . There's nothing more exciting than seeing that new player making a great shot where everybody goes right and I'm like there you go .
Speaker 3So that's , I think , what made the jump for me , and and I also have to , you know , there's a lot of people that I will have to thank for where I am right , but even vendors . I mean from the very beginning Selkirk , you know I told them what I wanted to do with Pickable and they're a big company and they all they had to say was like no right , I mean , let's not waste our time . And they gave me a chance . So , so a lot of people , yeah .
Speaker 1Were you saying Selkirk . So what's your , what's your connection with Selkirk ?
Speaker 3So , besides being an ambassador for them , they also provide opportunities for
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Speaker 3me to acquire some of their products at a lower price so I can pass it on , you know , to the schools , or or to take it to my tournaments or you know things like that . So people know that I'm self-care going , because I'm always everything is self-care .
Speaker 2I love it . You're a billboard , yeah , no kidding but are you ?
Speaker 3I appreciate that , I appreciate , are you ? Still teaching no , my teaching has it's now done . Okay , now what ?
Speaker 1was school . Let's do a shout out to your school .
Speaker 3Seattle Country Day in Queen Anne in Seattle . Nice , I'll have my kids listen to it , because I told them that one day I was going to do a podcast .
Speaker 1Yeah , for sure . They help you be the man you are . It's what I figure these kids . They help us be the people we are .
Speaker 3So oh my goodness , yeah , they , uh , they can drive us crazy sometimes , but it's , it's , it's , it's a good crazy right , it builds it builds up so for sure oh my gosh .
Speaker 1So you did mention one life lesson , and can you think of any other life lessons that you've gleaned , either in your life , maybe as a teacher , that you are using on the court , or life lessons that you discovered on the court that you now use in your life ?
Speaker 3Yeah , I think the biggest one and this one always gets me going . But the biggest lesson is to never underestimate or push away people because you don't think that they need the requirements to be in the same court as you are . We have a friend that Mike . I'm going to give a shout out to Mike . Mike , it looks like he just came out of the pool and he shows up on the court and he beats everyone up . Right , I show up to the court and you think , oh , my goodness , this guy , I don't know this guy looks like . Why is he not playing Tyson McGuffin right now ? Right , I mean , I'm terrible at it , right , but so again , just allowing people to come into your group become part of that circle , that community of pickable .
Speaker 3Pickable is , besides helping you , you know , help in a health way . It also helps you with your emotional health . Um , I mean , I think that just the fact that I I have a phone with 400 contacts that I know that I can text for any questions , now that I'm in the pickleball kingdom , I text them like what would you like to see ? And they always have good feedback . Uh , some of them text me in the middle of the night . Why are you letting this guy play ? He's too high to be playing or too low , you know all these things . And it always ends with us having a nice conversation about like , oh yeah , I'm in arizona right now . Oh , I'm in costa rica right now . Oh , I'm in hawaii playing right now , right . So it always starts with some drama and it always ends up with with a kind of like a what are we doing today , right ? Which is ? It's that connection that we're missing , I think , in society now , with technology and working from home and all these things .
Speaker 3So , I think never say no to someone , even if they don't know how to play . Bring them in , because that person could be the president of the Expedia , or it could be someone who just needs to talk to someone that day , right I mean , we don't know what question right , right place , right time . That's , that's my , that's my mantra now .
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Speaker 1I like that , and not only on the court but in life . Don't make assumptions that this isn't somebody that I can relate to or this isn't somebody who would understand me , but and and I like how you said you know , sometimes your calls begin with drama but end with this really lovely , it's like how we end the games we do paddle tap , it's like a hug . No matter how fierce that competition might have been . We are really gentle , enjoying each other . We give hugs and paddle taps .
Speaker 3It's a lesson from pickleball , right ? I mean , it's just and it's also a conversation , right ? I mean now I'm going to visit my mom this weekend , right , and I always have a pickleball thing on it , right ? So I'm in the airport , in the middle of nowhere , and someone goes like , oh , you play pickleball Really quick . We were in the middle of europe . Uh , there was an accident in poland . We were driving from poland , from germany , to poland . There was a big accident in the middle of a freeway , so you know , everybody's pulling on the side .
Speaker 3We started playing pickleball in the middle of the road oh , come on , that is so cool and and people is like taking pictures and you can hear people in other languages saying you know pickleball and you know . So it's kind of weird to go talk to someone in the middle of the road , but it leads to things like that right To just starting conversations , and a lot of people still don't know pickleball . So I think it is our job to not just bring , not just bring yeah , not just bring the sport , but bring what comes with the sport .
Speaker 1The spirit of the sport , the community . Oh my gosh , pablo , what an amazing story you have , and I am thrilled that you are now both feet in pickleball and pickleball kingdom . So how can people find you ? What's the best way to find you online ?
Speaker 3well . So my website is zz2pickleballcom , or just Pablo Granados , and Facebook and Instagram , or at the Pickleball Kingdom in . That's where the one of the facilities is going to be . Yeah , they're going to open several , but that's the one where I'm going to be . So if anybody wants to come and learn Pickleball or just sit down and , you know , have a drink and talk about anything , I'm always there . It's going to probably end up in a Pickleball game , because that's how all my conversations end .
Speaker 1I'll meet you on the court .
Speaker 3Or on the parking lot , who knows ? Or in the parking lot , or in the middle of the road , wherever . Whatever it is , yeah , there's always people oh man .
Speaker 1Thank you , pablo . Thank you so much for coming and sharing your story Very inspiring . I'm delighted that you're healthy and that you're happy and you're in a marriage that you two are totally in love and she supports you being in pickleball now , which I love , and yeah , congratulations , no .
Speaker 2I appreciate it and no more breaking paddles . No more breaking paddles .
Speaker 3Oh no , they're expensive now too .
Speaker 1so yeah , boy , you don't even think about it anymore , right ?
Speaker 3No , no , now it's like . Now I softly place it on the ground well , thank you so much , pablo , thanks for joining us today .
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Speaker 2Thanks , so much Hope to see you on the court .