Chris Dickert remembers the first time he played pickleball.
Dickert had been watching his son play the game at a local YMCA in Montgomery for a few weeks before he was invited to also play. His opponent was a 72-year-old man who, as Dickert puts it, “lit him up,” and at one point even hit Dickert straight in the chest with the game’s plastic ball.
Pickleball is played both on indoor and outdoor courts as either singles or doubles. The court is similar to a badminton court with a modified tennis net. The equipment includes a paddle that is smaller than a tennis racket and similar to big Ping Pong paddle. Typically, the game is played to a score of 11, and a match of three games might last 30 minutes.
Elizabeth Wyse, who owns Ozark Community Tennis and Pickleball with Heidi Faulk, said interest in the sport has grown in the community. Wyse only started playing pickleball last year and now teaches. On Mondays, Ozark Community Tennis and Pickleball holds beginner classes at $15 a month. Pickleball was created in 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Washington, according to USA Pickleball, the nonprofit governing body for the sport in the United States. Designed as a game the whole family can play together, pickleball borrows from other racket sports – badminton, tennis, racquet ball, and Ping Pong. As a sport, the first known pickleball tournament was held in 1976.
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