TC Founder Steve Bellamy Leads Investor Group Launching New Sport TYPTI

Entourage creator Doug Ellin, actresses Barbara Hershey and Donna Mills and TC founder Steve Bellamy (left to proper) at launching of latest racquet sport TYPTI.

Steve Bellamy has a imaginative and prescient for a brand new racquet sport.

Bellamy, founding father of Tennis Channel, has created a brand new sport known as TYPTI that mixes parts of badminton, tennis and pickleball.

TYPTI is performed on a normal pickleball courtroom with a 22-inch strung racquet, a 3.5-inch diameter channeled foam ball, and a brand new scoring system. TYPTI begins with a nationwide circuit, main partnerships, and dedicated high gamers to develop the game quickly.

At a Los Angeles press convention, Bellamy introduced the launch of the brand new sport in addition to a longtime investor group.

“We’re creating an infrastructure of tennis and pickleball golf equipment, entrepreneurs, household places of work, racquet sport experts and lovers, and cities who perceive the financial influence of participatory sports activities,” Bellamy stated. “We’re sanctioning tournaments and league groups, and on the lookout for manufacturers desirous to leverage sports activities to market their merchandise.

“We’re additionally scouring the nation for wonderful gamers who may be the primary technology of TYPTI stars. Mainly, we’re constructing a extremely good racquet sport and making a group for the infrastructure.”

Steve Bellamy and actress Tiffany Haddish

The all-skill stage nationwide aggressive play circuit will start with the primary occasion on February 25 on the Calabasas Pickleball Membership. The skilled division will assure over $100,000 in whole prize cash with at the least $500,000 of prize cash occasions in 12 months one. 12 months-two occasions may have over $1,000,000 in prize cash that includes an built-in draw permitting gamers from everywhere in the US to take part regionally to start out.

Right here’s an outline of the brand new sport from its information launch:

TYPTI (www.TYPTI.com) is a brand new racquet sport, performed on a normal pickleball courtroom with a 22-inch strung racquet, a 3.5-inch channeled foam ball, and a brand new scoring methodology that uniquely marries danger and reward. TYPTI is sort of noiseless, simple on the physique as ball strikes are excessive, shock is low, and there’s no overhead serve. It has its personal governing physique with beginner {and professional} excursions.

“I’ve spent my profession serving to racquet sports activities develop as a result of they’re a strong present to society,” Bellamy stated. “Our aim is to not cannibalize different racquet sports activities like tennis and pickleball, however as a substitute carry the 25 million former gamers within the U.S. who don’t play anymore again on the courtroom.

“In the event that they play TYPTI after which migrate to tennis, pickleball, badminton, desk tennis or padel, then that can be an enormous success for all the trade.”

Organizers say TYPTI “has inked a variety of vital partnerships with collegiate, racquet and training organizations, together with the Racquet Sports activities Skilled Affiliation with over 14,000 instructing execs.”

TYPTI introduced a number of high-profile strategic buyers together with Tony Robbins, Drew Brees, Chris Pine, JJ Abrams, Bert Kreischer, Tiffany Haddish, Heather Mills, Kyle MacLachlan, Melissa Rivers, Giovanni Ribisi, Kenny Moore, Jen Prince, Nick Kyrgios, Milos Raonic, Prakash Amritraj, JT Mollner, Gil Henry, David Flaherty, Desiree Gruber, Andrew Segal, Barry Allen and Tony Pritzker.