the paradise coast of florida is synonymous with white sand beaches and
the warm gulf of mexico waters but it is also now
synonymous with pickleball welcome to the inaugural
u.s open pickleball championship presented by minto
here at east naples community park in beautiful
naples florida all right are you ready pro doubles okay here we
go the inaugural champion about to be crowned
in u.s open pickleball history
weinbach tries to get aggressive there and sends it just a little bit too deep
out of bounds
so first point of the game for yates and wineback
okay as you see here the strategy here of just thinking in the kitchen oh and
wine back goes for around the post and it's good
beautifully executed goes around the post it does not have to go
over the net in pickleball and gabrielson was in bounds when it hit him
you see these guys they're picking up a little bit the pace
instead of going to the soft dinking trying to set up they're just going for
the the shots right off the bat like just
like that now for the first time in this match the
lead changes hands
great shot by moore back there so gabrielson and moore a chance to try and climb back in
this thing down 6-3
and here you can see Moore and Gabrielson back at the baseline which is
which is a disadvantage they really want to get to net so you can see them trying
to work in but just couldn't do it it was a great play by moore though to
save it off of the smash but Gabrielson unable to keep it going
from daniel moore there at all
another good third what we call third shot
oh and yates gets another around the post just like his partner did earlier
Well, Weinbach got that earlier in the game
and he's fired up about it too that'll get a rise out of this southwest florida
crowd the unforced terror so much of this game
rob is about patience and letting the other team create an
unforced error it is but you can see these guys are
really trying to go on the offense there but the game is typically more of a
patience game there waiting for the mistake but
you can see here they're really being really attacking
oh Weinbach was a magician there for a little while
yeah that's amazing you see the talent and daniel moore
the first person to start the banging game actually loses the point actually. really interesting
Weinbach right there! Putting it away.
That will force the serve to change hands and go over to Gabrielson
you get a sense that they need a few
more points here on this turn with the serve
they get it back over to wineback and yates
down this big it's gonna be big trouble in game one
oh that's this amazing point there
and all the players and the reactions slowing it up speeding it up again
9-6-1.
9-6 lead now as Yates Weinbach look
to close out game one they need two more points
you can see the importance here of the dinking game you know unless the ball
bounces inside the no volley zone which is
you know also called the kitchen you can't actually step in
inside that first seven feet and hit the ball and if your momentum takes you in
after hitting a shot that's also a fault. yes. wow what a shot
that's amazing and Weinbach gets his team within a
point of game one
and the first time out called by Moore Gabrielson
key moment in this match is moore really
needs to get some points and it was a great way they were keeping
moore back there but you can see that he made some great shots was able to get
to the kitchen so now it's really a chess game
all pumped up there i got a little bit overly aggressive yeah
an amazing thing you can oh yeah why he's just so
fast so full of energy there in the kitchen so it's side out and now
match perks you may not match but game point here in game one of this match
and we're back to the strategy of both and moore couldn't quite handle the
Weinbach slice and shock so there you have it game one goes to
Yates Weinbach 11-8 game two
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florida's paradise coast back here in naples florida as the sun
hangs low in the sky over the gulf of mexico and take a look
at some of the stats from the first game each team with six unforced errors
gabrielson and moore a few more blocked shots
but it was yates wine back who win it 11-8 and now
a chance to try and take the title in this best two out of three
scenario
currently a Florida gator he's taking online classes
at the university of florida as he has devoted his full-time
attention to pickleball and he is one of the top players we
probably have kyle he's probably probably the third best player in the
world it's really what everybody in the
pickleball world pretty much calls it's really a chess game up there once you
get to the kitchen on trying to open up move the ball
around and trying to expose the weakness of your
opponents
Weinbach unable to get to it but yates has his back and then
what reaction here by the entire allotment of players on the court
and they're able to force Gabrielson and Moore back and see as you can tell once
you're back you have a hard time winning the point there
Weinbach got everybody leaning in the wrong direction as well
yeah this is you could just rarely see the energy out of Weinbach here
he's pumped he wants this game
and a commanding 7-2 lead
this is not really what we expected Rob is it?
you caught yates trying to cut in front of weinbach
and ends up getting hit by the shot yup yates is really looking to take
advantage they do you don't want to go back to
gates and wine back with uh or they only need four more points for the win
we've really hard to come back if they get any more points
and yates able to send it off for the record out of bounds and gabrielson
and here we go this is exactly what we talked about
yates and windback now four points away from the championship
linebacker absolutely
winebach doing a good job getting back into the to the kitchen area
and right back to the chess game here trying to wait for someone to
hit the ball a little too high weinbeck has played impressive in this
match rob he's been playing impressive all week
he's really doing a good job but even more so than what we saw in the mixed
doubles earlier today it seems like he's elevated his game another notch from
that match yeah i think he really has now that
happens a lot playing with yates and you can you can see how
you know they're both excited feeding off of each other
Gabrielson Moore get back to serve down 9-3 and one game to none
Gabrielson Moore they've been down like this before and come back
and won many times it's going to be interesting to see if they can do it
here
and more thinking the ball is going out again and taking a chance but it fell in
so now yates will have the chance to serve it out
oh there it is moore unable to get to it the unforced error and a beautiful drop
shot and kyle yates along with dave weinbach
the local kid and the man from wisconsin take home the championship