Let us storm the Pickleball courts

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sureshs

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Touch tennis can be played with shorter rackets (21 inch). The court is slightly smaller than a Pickleball court I believe, but it should not matter. The ball is not the same as the red foam tennis ball used in 10-and-under but close enough.

Let us buy a few red foam tennis balls and cheap 21-inch tennis rackets and start playing touch tennis on Pickleball courts.

Pickles have been taking over tennis courts and mutilating them with lines. We will not do any shortening of the Pickleball court because it is informally considered to be OK.

How do you think Pickles will react?

I predict that they will try to chase us away at first, but once they realize how good it feels to hit a soft ball, and make less noise, and do real overhand serves, they will embrace us.

Stringing cost is an issue but the foam ball should keep restringing needs minimal, maybe once a year.

Let us launch this movement right away. We will start with city rec centers and public parks, and eventually pitch the idea to private clubs as well.

Anyone who has contacts in the USTA please forward. Tell them they missed this opportunity a long time ago and should atone for it now.

@ByeByePoly
 
sureshs said:
Touch tennis can be played with shorter rackets (21 inch). The court is slightly smaller than a Pickleball court I believe, but it should not matter. The ball is not the same as the red foam tennis ball used in 10-and-under but close enough.

Let us buy a few red foam tennis balls and cheap 21-inch tennis rackets and start playing touch tennis on Pickleball courts.

Pickles have been taking over tennis courts and mutilating them with lines. We will not do any shortening of the Pickleball court because it is informally considered to be OK.

How do you think Pickles will react?

I predict that they will try to chase us away at first, but once they realize how good it feels to hit a soft ball, and make less noise, and do real overhand serves, they will embrace us.

Stringing cost is an issue but the foam ball should keep restringing needs minimal, maybe once a year.

Let us launch this movement right away. We will start with city rec centers and public parks, and eventually pitch the idea to private clubs as well.

Anyone who has contacts in the USTA please forward. Tell them they missed this opportunity a long time ago and should atone for it now.

@ByeByePoly
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i love it!
 
sureshs said:
Touch tennis can be played with shorter rackets (21 inch). The court is slightly smaller than a Pickleball court I believe, but it should not matter. The ball is not the same as the red foam tennis ball used in 10-and-under but close enough.

Let us buy a few red foam tennis balls and cheap 21-inch tennis rackets and start playing touch tennis on Pickleball courts.

Pickles have been taking over tennis courts and mutilating them with lines. We will not do any shortening of the Pickleball court because it is informally considered to be OK.

How do you think Pickles will react?

I predict that they will try to chase us away at first, but once they realize how good it feels to hit a soft ball, and make less noise, and do real overhand serves, they will embrace us.

Stringing cost is an issue but the foam ball should keep restringing needs minimal, maybe once a year.

Let us launch this movement right away. We will start with city rec centers and public parks, and eventually pitch the idea to private clubs as well.

Anyone who has contacts in the USTA please forward. Tell them they missed this opportunity a long time ago and should atone for it now.

@ByeByePoly
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i support more war on clacking
 
Someday soon,
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Anyone else noticing the "One Hour limit when others are waiting" signs are mysteriously disappearing where pickleball courts are embedded on tennis courts?
 
City demolished 10 tennis courts to create 20 Pickled courts. Lucky the horseshoe pits, shuffleboard courts, and bocce survived. Btw, that is in one location
 
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Ronaldo said:
City demolished 10 tennis courts to create 20 Pickled courts. Lucky the horseshoe pits, shuffleboard courts, and bocce survived. Btw, that is in one location
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Our club in Palm desert removed 6 tennis courts and created 24 pickle ball courts. It's only time before the remaining 7 courts are history.
 
Main thing that annoys the hell out of me is pickleballers have absolutely no court etiquette. They routinely walk through my court during a point or rally. Either behind or through the middle between 2 courts. I always stop and just give them a death stare.
 
Ronaldo said:
City demolished 10 tennis courts to create 20 Pickled courts. Lucky the horseshoe pits, shuffleboard courts, and bocce survived. Btw, that is in one location
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Dartagnan64 said:
Our club in Palm desert removed 6 tennis courts and created 24 pickle ball courts. It's only time before the remaining 7 courts are history.
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After our 14-court public tennis center was abandoned by local tennis clubs during COVID restrictions, the pickleball community bought it up, rennovated it, and turned it into a strictly pickleball center.

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innoVAShaun said:
After our 14-court public tennis center was abandoned by local tennis clubs during COVID restrictions, the pickleball community bought it up, rennovated it, and turned it into a strictly pickleball center.

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Those numbers don't lie, let the bodies hit the courts
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The pickle heads are driving me nuts in my town and have invaded the tennis courts. The old farts constantly show up and try to kick my son off a court when he is playing tennis or giving a lesson. Good thing he will have none of it.

When we play tennis next to the picklesters and our ball goes into their court especially behind them they tend to leave them. Meanwhile the wind will blow their whiffle balls onto our court in the middle of a point disrupting us.

If there is a tennis like game which is not pickle ball but actually requires some fitness and athleticism where I can invade their courts (which our city has as well) I will take up that sport my pals and I will pack up our coolers with beer and invade their courts for an afternoon of fun.
 
LOBALOT said:
The pickle heads are driving me nuts in my town and have invaded the tennis courts. The old farts constantly show up and try to kick my son off a court when he is playing tennis or giving a lesson. Good thing he will have none of it.

When we play tennis next to the picklesters and our ball goes into their court especially behind them they tend to leave them. Meanwhile the wind will blow their whiffle balls onto our court in the middle of a point disrupting us.

If there is a tennis like game which is not pickle ball but actually requires some fitness and athleticism where I can invade their courts (which our city has as well) I will take up that sport my pals and I will pack up our coolers with beer and invade their courts for an afternoon of fun.
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Have you thrown their whiffle balls three courts down? They might pass out having to go retrieve them.
 
Purestriker said:
Have you thrown their whiffle balls three courts down? They might pass out having to go retrieve them.
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I try to keep up decorum by nature but my pal will pass them down. It is funny in that if on the other side is more tennis they will play along and shove them further down with word unspoken.
 
I played a tourney in Vegas at Bally’s Resort on the strip 20+ years ago. Visiting this weekend and was looking for courts, and it looks like 2/3 of the resort property has been converted to pickle and the tennis courts look worn and neglected in the satellite photo.
 
LOBALOT said:
I try to keep up decorum by nature but my pal will pass them down. It is funny in that if on the other side is more tennis they will play along and shove them further down with word unspoken.
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Oops, the wind must have gotten hold of that one, no idea why it went that way.
 
travlerajm said:
I played a tourney in Vegas at Bally’s Resort on the strip 20+ years ago. Visiting this weekend and was looking for courts, and it looks like 2/3 of the resort property has been converted to pickle and the tennis courts look worn and neglected in the satellite photo.
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Vegas is harsh on things. The use and abuse is just hard to overcome. Casinos look 100 years old after 10 years.
 
sureshs said:
Touch tennis can be played with shorter rackets (21 inch). The court is slightly smaller than a Pickleball court I believe, but it should not matter. The ball is not the same as the red foam tennis ball used in 10-and-under but close enough.

Let us buy a few red foam tennis balls and cheap 21-inch tennis rackets and start playing touch tennis on Pickleball courts.

Pickles have been taking over tennis courts and mutilating them with lines. We will not do any shortening of the Pickleball court because it is informally considered to be OK.

How do you think Pickles will react?

I predict that they will try to chase us away at first, but once they realize how good it feels to hit a soft ball, and make less noise, and do real overhand serves, they will embrace us.

Stringing cost is an issue but the foam ball should keep restringing needs minimal, maybe once a year.

Let us launch this movement right away. We will start with city rec centers and public parks, and eventually pitch the idea to private clubs as well.

Anyone who has contacts in the USTA please forward. Tell them they missed this opportunity a long time ago and should atone for it now.

@ByeByePoly
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sureshs said:
Touch tennis can be played with shorter rackets (21 inch). The court is slightly smaller than a Pickleball court I believe, but it should not matter. The ball is not the same as the red foam tennis ball used in 10-and-under but close enough.

Let us buy a few red foam tennis balls and cheap 21-inch tennis rackets and start playing touch tennis on Pickleball courts.

Pickles have been taking over tennis courts and mutilating them with lines. We will not do any shortening of the Pickleball court because it is informally considered to be OK.

How do you think Pickles will react?

I predict that they will try to chase us away at first, but once they realize how good it feels to hit a soft ball, and make less noise, and do real overhand serves, they will embrace us.

Stringing cost is an issue but the foam ball should keep restringing needs minimal, maybe once a year.

Let us launch this movement right away. We will start with city rec centers and public parks, and eventually pitch the idea to private clubs as well.

Anyone who has contacts in the USTA please forward. Tell them they missed this opportunity a long time ago and should atone for it now.

@ByeByePoly
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That’s a great idea
 
travlerajm said:
I played a tourney in Vegas at Bally’s Resort on the strip 20+ years ago. Visiting this weekend and was looking for courts, and it looks like 2/3 of the resort property has been converted to pickle and the tennis courts look worn and neglected in the satellite photo.
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Did you stage a protest?
 
When pickleball players ball goes on an adjoining court they yell “ball” instead of “let”. If it’s doubles … you can have all four yelling ball. It’s a way to warn others playing so they don’t get hurt stepping on the ball. Sometimes you can have a couple of courts yelling ball because it’s tight quarters. It reminds me of squirrels warning each other when the neighborhood cat shows up.

Oh … also … vast majority of pickleball players have no idea walking behind court (baseline) is … let’s say … not good. But this also goes back to tight quarters … only way to get to a court often is behind another court. Unless you are playing at fenced in individual courts …. you pretty much need to get over “your personal space” you were used to in tennis. A ball interrupting tennis play is occasional … in pickleball it’s constant. Just threw up a lob too low … and catch a ball heading your way out of corner of your eye … BAAAAAAAAALL!!! :p :-D
 
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