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K. Fahey & M. Ford immediately come to mind for this.

its the rounded shoulders humped neck. slouching, and forward jutting head-neck - spine- head alignment issues.

Yoga, stretching, other style of release would go far to help them recover.

It seems more prevalent I those pros who use a particular style grip &/or those whose technique at applying top spin leaves them open to overrotation of the arm thus rolling over of the shoulder bones& muscles.

Do the pros have PTs on duty or professional masseuse, or yoga instructors on duty at these events?

When I did the FF challenges decades ago, there was a tent full of them to help us and we all took yoga and had stretching classes. To prevent these specific things and others if course.

It brings your head and neck back to align more & better with your body.

These people are going to have some issues in their 40s and 50s, even if they don't feel it now

FMS

That was probably the greatest performance of Jorja andJW, especially Jorja. Insane gets and counters and reaction, OMG

I feel completely duped.....In April I bought PPA Tour Virginia Beach tickets for my wife's birthday...Obviously, She was hyped beyond belief........At the time all the PPA Tour pros were signed up - ALW, Anna Bright, Ben Johns, Tardio, Shimabukuro, Alshon, etc..... Just earlier in Oct, I logged in again, just to be sure, and noticed the brackets were posted, but NONE of the pros were there - actually, a few are still there, but the lower tier pros...... And still to this day, PPA Tour is advertising that BJ and ALW are coming....I saw a few more posts like mine from upset spectators.... I get it that they've been playing every week for the past three weeks, but after VB their next major tournament isn't until Nov....what gives?

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So a couple of weeks ago, JLG pickled Ben twice in the same match. Ben gets pickled quite rarely obviously (edit to add: I don’t remember the exact score. Maybe 11-0, 5-11, 11-0)

Then yesterday, Goins pickled Staksrud in a 11-7, 11-0 win. I looked at Staksrud’s pickling history on picklewave and apparently he’s only been pickled once ever in singles, by Alshon back in 2023.

I really don’t know much about analysis, I’m just a big fan of singles pickleball. But it seems like Goins really plays a game of inches and sometimes they’re an inch out instead of an inch in and he gets in trouble when that happens, but when he’s hitting his shots nobody can stop him. I just don’t know what it is that he is able to deliver these super rare picklings that nobody else seems to do.

Will Anna Leigh drop Ben and if so, who would compliment her best?

They’re both playing with different partners which I find very interesting.

Dropped this one this week and the timing is a little ironic given he just lost all three finals in Vegas, but he's still the most interesting player in the sport to break down.

His biggest strength isn't one weapon. It's the absence of a real weakness. Every player has a spot you can exploit. With Ben it's genuinely hard to find one, and the ones that exist are situational.

The backhand roll is the most studied shot in pickleball right now and he's still doing it better than anyone. He didn't invent the backhand flick either but he absorbed it and made it elite, which is kind of his whole thing. He patches weaknesses and adopts innovations faster than everyone else.

His dinking is probably underrated as a weapon. It's so precise and patient that opponents press into bad offense trying to create something that isn't there.

Relative weaknesses: speed-ups when his reads are off, predictability in certain patterns, and motivation. When he decides something matters, he's nearly unbeatable. When he doesn't, it shows.

Full 2K rating card at the end. Who should episode 3 be?!

So many good storylines... CJ and Andrei are (former?) Sliders teammates. They know each other's game and their strength/weaknesses. Rohrabacher is coming back from injury and a wedding (congrats to her) and (to me) Kunimoto is unproven in doubles. Plus, it's old vs young!

Klinger and Kunimoto win the third game and it's a good back and forth between teams. Everybody is playing well and it just so happens the youngers come out on top.

I'd like to see more appearances by both pairings. I think both have a bright future.

Holy crikey. Isn’t there a time limit for how long a player can refuse to continue playing?

Daescu is just mad he’s not able to spread sticky substances all over his paddle anymore. Maybe they should send his paddle to a lab for testing again 🤣

Really loving the men's doubles match, but really loving these two. Really appreciate Goins's handspeed and the way he's able to disguise what he's trying to do with the two handed backhand (although he just missed a backhand dink). Great cross-court roll, and loved watching him flick a couple down the line for winners.

Wish they showed Braham's crazy run across the court/Erne again...

Cutting away from the end of nailbiter matches that feature popular players (elsie/zane)just to go to…main court? On a wednesday?? Even dave fleming sounds annoyed.

And again on other matches please stop changing cameras mid point.

Unrelated, but how is it that viewers can see a replay of an out/in ball immedieately but it takes ref crew 1-2 minutes to get the call?

Thank you

A viewer

does anyone else find this grating? nonpaddlevtaps. the way he barely or sometimes doesn't even try to give the ball back to the opponent. screaming at the opponent. the way he drags his ass between points with a never ending parade of towel breaka disregarding the server's pace entirely. then he has the nerve to thank God at the end like he's some little choir boy. and wasn't he dating ALW when she was like 15 and he was 25 nobody ever mentions this?

anyway if he wasn't such a nonstop douche he'd be more likable.

The passion and will each of those athletes had and the level of emotion they all express. Not to mention, it is just FINE pickleball. Soooo good of skill on all players. Amazing. What.a.match