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Melissa McCurley on building modern pickleball
Melissa McCurley helped build the modern pickleball world long before most people realised what the sport could become.
In this episode of the World Pickleball Podcast, Chris Beaumont sits down with the 2025 Pickleball Hall of Fame inductee, former PickleballTournaments.com CEO, US Open architect, national TV commentator, and current APP executive to talk about the work that turned pickleball from a driveway game into a professional sport with real structure.
Melissa explains how the US Open became the sport’s Super Bowl, why early TV exposure changed everything, what it was like to become…
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