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How pickleball helped Anchorage's Tagiilima Unga find love and reach the world stage

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Sep. 29—While growing up in Samoa, Tagiilima "Lima" Unga didn't dream of pursuing a professional career as an athlete playing a racket sport. The 36-year-old played a little tennis for fun growing up but never did so competitively. The one racket sport he played with any sort of regularity as a youth was ping-pong. "I feel like a lot of Polynesians, all they want to do is hit each other," Unga ...

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