Melissa White, the executive director of the Key Biscayne Community Foundation, tried to resist the siren call that is pickleball. But when her 12-year-old son, Johnny, and her 12-year-old niece, Tori, begged her, White’s willpower wore down.

“For hours, it was ‘Come on, play. We need a fourth. We need a fourth,’” said White, who had never played the popular paddle game before she decided to give it a go on Sunday, March 23. She ended up with a serious injury to her right foot and was soon sentenced to surgery, a cast and a boot, moving around the island all summer, partially incapacitated.

White wasn’t alone during her physical therapy sessions, it turns out. The Key Biscayne Yacht Club’s Commodore, Felipe Porro, snapped his Achilles tendon playing pickleball on Easter Sunday, a few wee

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