1. I missed it.
2. I didn't know there IS a National Pickleball Day
3. My story: After teaching, coaching and playing tennis for 29 years -- and thinking all those pickleball people were CRAZY, who were chomping at the bit for the high school team I coached to end practice -- I had my first pickleball lesson. The teacher was my former tennis doubles partner who had just *disappeared* from the tennis scene about 2015....
I came home from that lesson and told my wife, "I'm done with tennis."
She didn't believe me, but I haven't played tennis for two and one-half years. We just built a court on our property this past summer and our three grandsons are addicted.
Pickleball is more fun; points move faster -- especially in-between the points; pickleball players are more honest about line calls (They just ARE.). Yes, the scoring is weird, but you get used to it quickly.
Oh! And the DUPR is much more accurate -- and dynamic -- than the USTA's silly rating system.
