Addicted to pickleball

Football may be Singapore's No. 1 sport but there are other sporting love affairs around the island. In this fortnightly series, The Straits Times seeks out less popular games and discovers that a country's passion for sport, even in this time of Covid-19, burns brightly.

Janice Kuok (far left), 12, started playing pickleball last September. She now plays at least once a week at an outdoor court in her neighbourhood in Jurong West. ST PHOTOS: JASON QUAH — Chong Siew Tan. ST PHOTO: JASON QUAH

Laura Chia

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May 15, 2021, 05:00 AM

It all started last September when his secondary school classmate, whom he had not met for over 20 years, posted on Facebook that he had lost 8kg without going on a diet.

Intrigued, Jerome Yap, a medical physicist with the department of radiation oncology at the National Cancer Centre Singapore, commented on the post that he wanted to lose weight too and asked how.

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