From the left court, at the NVZ with a long 3rd shot drop coming his way, white cap’s backhand flick to the opposite sideline is impressive. He made that same shot multiple times.

Great skills on Display!! Now I’m 55, 2nd year player, cross over from RBall, as fit as one can get, spent plenty on top of line paddles Have more than few!! but I feel I could play my Friday rec pads and hold my own against these fellas!

Great play!

This was good pickleball! Many points shifted back and forth from one team on offense, to the other ... and back again. IMO, Black and Red made the same tactical error in each game. For some reason, late in each game, Black switched them to having Red play the Left Side. Black is clearly the better Left Side player on that team. Kudos to White, who clearly tweaked his L glute or hammy in the 2nd game, and played tough throughout. Ron, more of these videos, please. They're excellent! (Oh yes. The PPA should pay you to do their videos. Theirs look like security camera feeds...!)

Good match.

At 18:00 in Game 2, red shirt’s paddle hits the net

The shadows, creeping on, too bad, ya!! They should be within 20 feet of a championship match, your partner’s enough!!

How was this recorded? Was the camera mounted on top of some bleachers?

Maybe the negative commenters are looking at professional pickleball on TV and comparing these 5.0 players to that standard? The difference between 5.0, 55-59 and Pros in their 20's is enormous. It's two different worlds. The rating system could use some work to make it more standardized. I can't argue with that. Maybe a 4.5 in my town is called a 3.5 in yours. Or vice versa. That's subjective. Especially if you don't get rated by playing in a bunch of tournaments - in and out of your home region. . The objective fact is that these guys played themselves into the gold medal match in the 5.0, 55-59 division in a tournament that was open to all of us. They didn't make up their ratings. They earned their ratings the hard, honest way. If you or I think we could have beaten them we should have entered that tournament and proved it. But I didn't play that tournament. So I say...Congratulations to the Gold medal pair and congratulations to the Silver pair as well. Well done.

Is that a typo? 5.0?

Cannot make an out call until ball hits the ground