For The Love Of The Game

Pickleball - a sport whose reach spans abilities and generations

Chong Siew Tan has been playing pickleball for over 20 years. ST PHOTO: JASON QUAH
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SINGAPORE - 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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