Should You Partner With Your Significant Other in Pickleball Tournaments?

What a question!

Do you play pickleball tournaments?

If you do, do you partner with your significant other?

here are pros who do partner with their significant others.

Anna Bright and James Ignatovich play mixed doubles together while being a couple.

Matt Wright and Lucy Kovalova do too.

What about you?

My wife and I do not routinely partner with each other during pickleball tournaments.

We are both very competitive, but we found that we are not good partners to each other on the court.

Yes, we partner during pick-up games.

But, we found that we are too nice to each other on the court.

As a result, way too many balls passed through the middle between us. Neither of us wanted to invade the other's space.

It's great in everyday life to defer to each other.

Not good on the court!

And especially not good in tournaments!

We have heard of players who partner on the court and are couples off the court having arguments at home related to pickleball games.

Is that worth it?

Some couples can obviously make it work.

They leave pickleball issues at the court and don't take them home.

Fortunately, my wife and I didn't argue about games.

And we were honest enough to realize we played better with other partners.

So, we play the same tournaments, but we choose other partners.

It works better that way for us.

What about you?

What has your pickleball tournament partner experience been?​