World Championship Medalists Bien and Bambi Zoleta Sign With Luzz Pickleball
Andrew Lee"When I was five years old, Bambi and I started playing together," Bien Zoleta has said of her sister. Two decades later the pair are teammates again, this time under the same paddle brand.
Luzz Pickleball has signed Bien Zoleta and Bambi Zoleta to Team Luzz, calling it "a double signing from the Philippines." The brand's welcome post gives each sister her own card: Bien holding a purple and pink paddle, Bambi a blue one, both pictured with the Philippine flag.
Two Careers That Started on the Same Court
Both sisters came up through Philippine tennis before switching sports. Bien Zoleta is a four-time SEA Games gold medalist in soft tennis, winning singles and doubles golds in 2019 and doubles and team golds in 2021. Bambi Zoleta also represented the Philippines in soft tennis at SEA Games level before stepping away from the national team to focus on pickleball.
Bien made the switch first, and made it count immediately. At the World Pickleball Championships in Bali in September 2024, she won gold in the women's singles, beating Christie Potsepis 21-14 in the final, then added a second gold in the doubles 35+ Open category with partner Johner Ombrezo. In June 2026 she picked up her first PPA Tour title, partnering Jessica Agra to the women's doubles 35+ championship at the PPA Asia 500 Macao Open, going undefeated through the draw.
Bambi has her own world title to show for the switch. She won gold at the World Pickleball Championship in Bali, partnering Patricia Raymundo to a 21-6 win in the women's doubles 19+ 4.5 final.
One More Name on a Growing Roster
The sisters join a Luzz roster that has expanded quickly this year, with recent signings including Malaysia's Sabrina Gee, global ambassador Kid Chan, and PPA Tour's Tama Shimabukuro. The Philippines is a new addition to that list, not a market Luzz's Asia account had previously featured an athlete from.
For two sisters who started at five years old playing MILO clinics together, then spent years on opposite ends of tennis courts as they built separate national team careers, sharing a paddle brand puts them back on the same side again, in the sport they've spent the past two years quietly building their own names in.
This article is based on social media posts and historical data tracked by Pickle361.
