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>2) Pickleball is coming to monopolize the local courts, making them inaccessible by tennis players. I'm not a player of either, but from walking around the co
by linsomniac 2y ago
>2) Pickleball is coming to monopolize the local courts, making them inaccessible by tennis players.
I'm not a player of either, but from walking around the courts at our city park, I'd say (in our area at least) it is the opposite: Tennis is making pickleball courts inaccessible to pickleball players. It is NOT uncommon to see the 4 pickleball courts packed, and 1 or both of the tennis courts empty. Our neighborhood tennis courts are basically never used, they are tennis only.
It's nice (admittedly, not living directly adjacent to courts) to see them used by pickleball rather than just sitting there idle.
Point 1 above does seem to be a real problem. I gather there are ball/racket combinations that can help, and also curtain solutions that can help?
- stavros 2y agoI don't understand how tennis is making the pickleball courts inaccessible, it sounds like the pickleball courts are packed?
- linsomniac 2y agoThe same way that pickleball is making the tennis courts inaccessible (the statement I was replying to). Specifically in the case I'm talking about, the park used to have 4 tennis courts, 2 of them were converted into 4 pickleball courts. There's a serious case to be made, from casual observation, that the city should have converted 3 or even 4 of the tennis courts into 6 or 8 pickleball courts, given that there is almost always 100% pickleball court penetration when we're out walking. Not saying we should do away with the tennis courts, I'm just saying there's a case for it.