Why Are 2,000,000 Americans Playing Pickleball?
Why are 2000, 000 Americans playing pickleball?Thats the question I asked myself each time I rode past the tennis and pickleball courts in my new housing development at Arbor Creek in South Carolina.The first few weeks I was too busy unpacking boxes to join in the fun, but a friend (who plays twice a week) Joe, you will racquet love tennis, andball, ." She is right. The game is a combo full of all four activities.The paddle, made of graphite or wood, is larger than a ping-pong paddle, and shorter than a racquetball racket.It's lighter than a badminton racket. The court is rectangular, 20 feet wide, and 44 feet tall.The "kitchen" is 7 feet long starting from the net and twenty feet wide.The kitchen is a safety where you cannot slam the ball in someone's face.If the ball lands in the kitchen, you must let the ball bounce once to keep volleyball going.Safe face, pickleball.(Bon intendetion) The official pickleball court is a rectangle with dimensions equal to 20 fee...