Vietnam will host the World Pickleball Championship Sequence – Asia Pacific on April 3-9. (Picture: WPC)

Ba Ria-Vung Tau (VNS/VNA) – Vietnam
is about to host the World Pickleball Championship (WPC) Sequence – Asia Pacific
for the primary time from April 3-9 at Resort Carmelina in southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau
province.

The WPC Sequence – Asia Pacific consists of 12
tournaments, every held in a unique nation. The occasion in Vietnam marks the
second cease in Asia, with eight extra scheduled in Asia and 4 in
Australia, main as much as the WPC finals.

The match in Vietnam will characteristic 300
athletes, together with 220 overseas participants, who will compete within the males’s and
ladies’s singles, males’s and girls’s doubles, in addition to blended doubles
classes. The competitors may even characteristic divisions based mostly on age teams to
accommodate the athletes’ bodily situation.

Vietnam could have a number of representatives within the
skilled class, together with tennis veteran Trinh Linh Giang.

Pickleball is a racket or paddle sport performed
with two gamers (singles) or 4 gamers (doubles). Individuals use paddles
to hit a perforated, hole plastic ball over a 34-inch-high (0.86 m) web till
one facet fails to return the ball or commits a rule infraction.

Pickleball gained recognition within the Pacific
Northwest area of the US between 1965 and 2020, and has since grown in
recognition throughout the nation. Actually, the game was recognised because the
fastest-growing sport within the US in 2021, 2022, and 2023, with an estimated 4.8
million gamers by 2023.

Launched to Vietnam in 2018, pickleball has
skilled important development in recent times, with roughly 25
pickleball golf equipment now established all through the nation.

Luu Thuy Dung, a member of the organising committee,
expressed her dedication to making sure the profitable organisation of this
prestigious match, with the intention of selling the expansion of pickleball in Vietnam.

“I hope that this match will function a
turning level for the event of the game not solely in Vietnam but in addition
around the globe,” Dung stated.

The ultimate occasion of the WPC Sequence – Asia Pacific
may even be held in Vietnam in January 2025./.