Malaysia’s subsequent technology of pickleball expertise simply bought a correct backer. Paddletek Malaysia and Mypickleball have unveiled the primary cohort of their Junior Expertise Assist Program, formally launching the Paddletek Malaysia Junior Pickleball Workforce with a transparent transient: discover the nation’s most promising younger gamers and provides them an precise runway towards nationwide and worldwide competitors, reasonably than leaving that growth to probability.
5 gamers make up the inaugural consumption, and the résumés already on provide recommend the scouting has been completed correctly.
Paddletek Malaysia’s First 5
Norman Wong, 15, out of Miri, Sarawak, arrives having gained the Workforce Occasion at DUPR U18 throughout the EPIC Singapore Open 2026, including gold in U18 Blended Doubles on the TOBC Borneo Open 2026 for good measure. Down in Ipoh, Perak, 11-year-old Koay Janson has already claimed the U12 Junior Doubles title on the ISEIGUR Cup 2026 and took bronze in U13 Boys Doubles on the Volvo Penang Grand Slam 2025.
Catherine Liew, 17, of Tanjung Malim, Perak, completed as second runner-up on the PCL Asia Rising Stars Malaysia Choice 2026 earlier than bouncing again to win Blended Doubles on the Honolulu Pickleball Match 2026. Muhammad Ariq, 12, from Kajang, Selangor, has been almost unbeatable in his age group this yr, taking Boys Singles U12 at each the Nationwide Junior Open 2026 and the Amverton Pickleball Championship 2026. Rounding out the group is Kimberly Tan, simply 10, of Shah Alam, Selangor, who claimed Women U12 Singles on the Empire NextGen Sequence 2026 and completed first runner-up in the identical class on the Kejohanan Terbuka Junior Putrajaya 2026.
Between them, that’s 5 gamers, 5 completely different states, and a genuinely broad unfold of outcomes at precisely the age the place constant help tends to matter most.
Extra Than Simply Free Paddles
The programme isn’t merely a sponsorship brand slapped on a jersey. Every participant will get full backing with Paddletek paddles and equipment, coaching help by means of two academies—002 Pickleball Membership & Academy and Gee Academy—and a clearer pathway towards nationwide and regional competitors than most younger gamers in Malaysia at present have entry to.
Paddletek’s observe file right here carries actual weight, too. It is a model that signed Anna Leigh Waters at simply 12 years outdated, lengthy earlier than she turned the participant many now think about the best to ever play the game. Extra lately, 13-year-old Elsie Hendershot has been competing as a key participant for Chicago Slice in Main League Pickleball—proof that backing a younger participant early can repay remarkably rapidly when the expertise is actual.
That historical past is precisely the type of precedent Malaysia’s personal junior scene can now level to. Whether or not any of those 5 observe the same trajectory stays to be seen, however they’re beginning that journey with significantly extra construction behind them than the technology earlier than them ever had.
Followers eager to play with the identical gear because the workforce can discover Paddletek’s full vary, together with the most recent Honeyfoam TKO-X and ESQ fashions, now stay at www.mypickleball.my.
