In a sport still finding its footing in India, the Amalsadiwalas stand out not just for their medals, but for being a rare full-house family pack of competitive pickleball players. This Parsi family from Andheri — parents Nozer and Meher, and daughters Pearl, 18, and Naomi, 15 — have turned their shared love for the paddle sport into a lifestyle, with dinner-table conversations, and international medals all revolving around one thing: pickleball.

It all started in 2019 when Nozer, 51, who runs a small sports events company, attended a local pickleball tournament as part-owner of a team. Watching the sport up close, he thought, “I can play as good as some of the players I’ve picked.” He picked up a paddle and, has never put it down since. Meher, 43, joined later, initially just to be his mixed doubles partner. “There were very few women in the game then,” she recalls. “So I thought, why not give it a try?” In 2023, she won a national gold medal in women’s doubles in Gujarat with an ankle sprain on court. “I was a little off-court that day, but my partner took a lead and we won the gold. Still very proud of that win!”