Adult Rec Tennis Player Uses Skills to Gain Pickleball Sponsorship and Career

Does playing tennis help you play pickleball? Does playing
pickleball help your tennis game?

We were thrilled to have Yubie Albert join us to discuss tennis
AND pickleball. He is a sponsored pickleball player with Selkirk
Sport, a well-known pickleball company that is based out of
Hayden, ID (https://www.selkirk.com/). In addition, he works as
an Operations Manager at Carpe - a North Carolina company that
produces Anti Sweat Antiperspirant solutions for your body
(https://mycarpe.com/).

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Yubie played college tennis and is currently a 4.5 USTA Tennis
player.  He captains many USTA teams that went to the state
championships, sectionals, and once to Nationals in 2018, along
with numerous World Team Tennis that also went to qualifiers and
to Nationals in 2016.  In addition to that, he was named
North Carolina Captain of the year in 2018.  


In late 2019, he began his pickleball journey.   As a
beginner pickleball player, he started as 3.5.  His
curiosity about the sport took him out to the courts to learn and
practice every day.  He played his first tournament in
doubles as a 3.5 and won Gold right away without losing any games
and played his second tournament as a 4.0 and won Gold also.
After his first two, he started playing 4.5 level, several 5.0s,
and even a couple in the professional levels.  He earned
several Gold and Silver medals in 4.5s and even though no medals
yet at the professional level, he had some great wins.  


Currently, he resides in Raleigh, NC with his wife Mandy, who is
also an avid tennis and pickleball player.

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