National pickleball teams for the countries that don't have one yet.
We form the team, run a transparent, DUPR-verified selection that picks it, represent the athletes who make it, and connect competitive sport to longevity science. Proven in Russia. Now scaling worldwide.
The fastest-growing racquet sport has left most of the world without a team.
At the most recent Pickleball World Cup (Da Nang, Vietnam, 2026), 66 national delegations competed. Roughly 190 countries and territories fielded no team at all — only 3 of Africa's 54 nations took part. Many of these countries already have athletes who could compete internationally within months, converted from tennis, badminton, table tennis, beach tennis or padel. What they lack is a selection system and a funded route to a first international start.
Five parts, one system, ready to hand to a local partner.
National team
Partner with existing local structures, convert courts in a day, run an open selection with a published method, send the team to its first international start within one season.
Tournaments
A PRO qualifying series with a growing, published prize fund; amateur events that build the funnel; regional cups that bring country programmes together.
Athlete representation
Standard agency contracts once a team exists, commission only on sponsorship actually secured, and scouting incentives for the next generation.
Sponsorship & media
One cross-network placement across every club, channel and athlete kit, sold to one category-exclusive partner. Partner money goes to the athlete trip fund.
Longevity layer
Pickleball is the longevity sport — playable from 8 to 80 and beyond. Longevity InTime brings the science, the audience and Longevity Forums held on court.
Forming the pickleball Dream Team.
Today the best players from Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan and Belarus are forming the world's first united private pickleball team — selected by level, not passport, and competing under one team banner. First start: European Open, Antalya, 3–8 November 2026.
The Russia case: built as a private initiative, in weeks — not years.
No government body had to act first. A transparent, published selection method let a small, scattered pool of athletes qualify on their own schedule.
- CourtsExisting tennis and padel courts converted — four pickleball courts per tennis court, no construction.
- Open selectionPRO qualifying series with a published method and prize fund; amateur tournaments feeding the funnel.
- TeamA funded delegation formed in under nine weeks from a standing start.
- Open to residentsForeign residents compete on equal terms — and every diaspora community becomes a sponsor conversation.
Numbers worth citing
≈74,000 followers across partner channels domestically, plus ≈50,000 more through the Longevity InTime network worldwide.
Under nine weeks to a funded international team.
One tennis court → four pickleball courts, in a single day.
What we have already proven.
Every match is recorded in the global DUPR rating with a public match ID, so anyone can check any result themselves.
First open selection
17 participants, 5 anchor players, 14 matches over 5 days. Every result was adjusted against the anchor's real, live DUPR rating, so any day could be fairly compared to any other. Men's doubles champions: Romashov and Ivanov. A separate standing for foreign residents was won by Bảo Nguyễn and Hiếu Chan, with their prize funded by their own community.
"Three Countries" weekend
Our first international weekend: Russia, Kazakhstan and Vietnam. Anchor players from all three countries play paying amateur guests and each other, every match recorded in DUPR, with a transparent points model and its own prize ladder.
European Open
Our first international start, at Ali Bey Club (18 courts). The team travels as neutral athletes.
A working partner pipeline
Partner packages are built on the proven monthly selection format and priced against a real, already-running calendar: banking, technology (AI in medicine), university research, regional business and national-team partners. None of them asks a partner to fund just an idea.
Country programmes, then regional cups.
Once three country programmes exist in a region, the model scales sideways into a regional cup: a resort-based week, national teams meeting for the first time, streamed finals, and a story the host's tourism board wants to tell. The Islands Cup, with a multinational delegation, is the first, planned for 2027. Where there is no local representative yet, Oleg Teterin represents the project personally until one is found.
● representative or athletes in place ○ active conversations
Who we work with.
Venues & hotels
Host national qualifying games on your tennis or padel courts. Tournament traffic, media coverage and official venue status.
Federations
A ready playbook: selection method, tournament format, athlete contracts and sponsorship structure — plus experienced players and coaches.
Clubs & societies
Host a qualifying round, give your members a direct route into the national team, join our coach certification pathway.
Sponsors
A single category-exclusive placement across a whole market's clubs, channels and athlete kits — with funds going to athletes.
From one country to a worldwide team.
We are building a genuinely international roster, assembled by level of play rather than passport, aimed at winning at the sport's biggest international events, not just competing in them. The same transparent, DUPR-verified selection is applied everywhere it expands.
2027 season
A monthly international qualifier with a title partner, regional PRO days, and the Islands Cup with a multinational delegation.
190 countries
A licence for our own scoring and tournament software, and a push toward national programmes in the roughly 190 countries that do not have one yet.
"The Sphere"
A modular trophy built from 120-degree arcs: three arcs complete a circle, six arcs complete the Longevity InTime infinity mark. One arc a month, a new piece to chase all year.
Behind the project
Where sport meets longevity science.
Longevity InTime brings eight years in the longevity industry, an NVIDIA Inception membership and a worldwide audience of 200K+.
"We seek partners to co-create Longevity Forums where pickleball, its athletes, and the courts take centre stage."
Bring a national team to your country.
- Oleg Teterin — Founder, Pickleball Partners / Longevity InTime
- teterin@longevityintime.org
- +255 752 690 493
- t.me/PickleballPartners
Country partner programme
Tell us your country, your courts, and your role. We'll send the case study and a proposed first-season plan.
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