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About the Offer- As part of Red Ball Tennis's mission to grow the game and promote healthier, more active lifestyles, they're giving away two free tennis racquets and two Red Ball Tennis balls to help you get started
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Take a look at the crowds for pickleball's pro events, dozens, I tell you, dozens!
Pickleball picks up a LOT of very casual people who give it a try,
play some with their kids and that's about it.
I remember the racketball craze and how they said it would replace tennis.
That said, if you want to play pickleball, good for you.
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Take a look at the crowds for pickleball's pro events, dozens, I tell you, dozens!
Pickleball picks up a LOT of very casual people who give it a try,
play some with their kids and that's about it.
I remember the racketball craze and how they said it would replace tennis.
That said, if you want to play pickleball, good for you.
Loving the US Open this year!
From a little research, it does look like this is a pickleball/tennis mashup.
From a little research, it does look like this is a pickleball/tennis mashup.
Take a look at the crowds for pickleball's pro events, dozens, I tell you, dozens!
Pickleball picks up a LOT of very casual people who give it a try,
play some with their kids and that's about it.
I remember the racketball craze and how they said it would replace tennis.
That said, if you want to play pickleball, good for you.
As others noted, it is a lot easier\physically demanding game to play, esp. in doubles which is more popular in pickleball than is singles. Less mobility needed, less endurance and less athleticism. Add in that one of if not the most difficult parts of tennis is the serve, which in pickleball is basically a lot easier\bordering on a joke imo. As such it is going to appeal to a lot wider audience, especially among the retired\older crowd. It is what it is. As a spectator sport, tennis has nothing to worry about imo compared to pickleball as watching doubles pickleball is imo the equivalent of watching a ping pong match.
My 2 cents.
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Have you seen anyone on public tennis courts these days? A lot of them are being converted for pickleball. Not to say it will be watched more compared to tennis, but it is a much more popular sport for all ages to participate in, and not just people who try it with their kids.
As others noted, it is a lot easier\physically demanding game to play, esp. in doubles which is more popular in pickleball than is singles. Less mobility needed, less endurance and less athleticism. Add in that one of if not the most difficult parts of tennis is the serve, which in pickleball is basically a lot easier\bordering on a joke imo. As such it is going to appeal to a lot wider audience, especially among the retired\older crowd. It is what it is. As a spectator sport, tennis has nothing to worry about imo compared to pickleball as watching doubles pickleball is imo the equivalent of watching a ping pong match.
My 2 cents.
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IN THE MEANTIME, LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW AND WHERE TO PLAY RED BALL TENNIS.
(And for those paranoid people, no you do not have to click on the link and learn more about how and where to play red ball tennis.... But if you just want to learn you can probably do a lot worse than click on the link and read about it... or if you want to stick it to the man, then just go to Youtube and learn there.... you got about 1000 different ways to learn in 2025)
Conclusion: Pickleball will be continually played by the people who can't compete in tennis and padel, Except for the people actually making money and winning trophies from it, they're the only real athletes. And then in the older crowd so many more getting injured every year that they are forced to quit pickleball and now it's hard for them to play tennis as well. Pickleball is still popular with the lazy crowd of youngsters and middle aged people but the more competitive ones are going to Padel. Tennis has its ups and downs but it's an evergreen sport and then some one else said pickleball is much more akin to racquetball and platform tennis et cetera and I said this a couple of years ago but in a few more years all these clubs that spent a lot of money to transform into pickleball courts will be sorry because the play traffic will definitely decrease as tennis makes the recovery and Padel increases and the older crowd will realize it's just too harsh for them to play on the hard court and stay healthy. So at the end of the day pickleball will be played mostly by lazy youngsters who don't want to put the effort into actually learning a sport but just go out and fool around, and the very healthy elderly... Pickle is also much harder to play in singles, you actually need to be pretty quick and athletic to play singles so if you're just two people you're going to get bored really fast because you have to work really hard to get to the balls, so having four players is pretty much a prerequisite... Competitive singles pickleball is actually a real sport... Pretty small demographics.
And I'm just curious, what is a "quality racquet" to you?
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