Pickleballers Season 3, Episode 9: Roscoe Bellamy on how pickleball changed his life
Roscoe Bellamy is the co-host of Pickleballers and currently the No. 6 ranked men’s singles player in the world. A product of a tennis dynasty — his father founded Tennis Channel and his mother was a pro player — Roscoe rose to become the No. 1 nationally ranked junior in the U.S. before a series of devastating injuries derailed his path to the pro tour.
In this episode, Roscoe sits down with Jared and longtime friend Wesley Burroughs for a rare look at the man behind the mic. The conversation covers Roscoe’s full journey from tennis prodigy to pro pickleball player, the mental shift that unlocked his best pickleball, and what it actually takes to compete at the top of the sport while running one of the game’s biggest media brands.
Roscoe opens up about the two years he lost to a stress fracture at age 15 — a period that stripped him of his identity as a top junior and sent him through a grueling rehab circuit alongside the likes of Anthony Davis and Mike Trout. Two hip surgeries in college effectively ended his pro dream, and it wasn’t until a Hawaii trip with Hunter and Yates Johnson that pickleball entered the picture — leading to a sandbagged Pickleball Slam alongside Matt Manassie just two weeks into the sport.
Roscoe also gets into the mental transformation that fueled his breakout 2025 run — winning his first PPA gold in Lakeland, Florida, reaching finals in Vegas, and finally finding the “dog” in his game that singles pickleball demands. He shares details on his new paddle deal with Luzz, his plans to launch the Pickleball Collective instructional platform, and his goal of finishing 2026 in the top three in the world.
