The Royal Spanish Tennis Federation (RFET) presented this Thursday at the Racquet Cityin Madrid, the pickleballthe new sport integrated within its structure that combines elements of tennis, paddle tennis, badminton and table tennis.
During the presentation ceremony, award-winning sports players such as Ernesto Cárdenas, Martín Suárez, Sabrina Mendes and Gemma García, marked their presence on the track and raised spirits in the multipurpose room with an energetic demonstration. They were joined by professional extensionists such as Pato Clavet, Vivi Ruano and Álex Corretjawho did not give up their competitiveness at any time.
Clavetformer ATP number 18, revealed that it is a fairly simple sport, and claimed that “to know how to play it you have to understand it”: “The objective of this is to have fun. At first I was a little confused, because you have to understand the game, the concept, the rhythms, how to play, but then it becomes easy.”
A sport with a dynamics and technique similar to those of tenniswhich became popular in a few years in the United States and now hopes to reign and reach all audiences in Spain.
This is how you play
Composed by two or four players the scheme begins by serving the ball from behind the service line and hitting below the waist to throw it diagonally, waiting for the ball to bounce once on each side of the court. Once done, both teams will hit the ball without it having bounced.
We integrate it into our statutes, into our unions, because we believe in this sport.
Miguel Díaz, RFET president
The president of the RFET, Miguel Diazhighlighted the positive points of pickleball: “We integrate it into our statutes, into our unions, because we believe in this sport. In the United States it is brutal, the increase it has, it is a very simple sport, it is a sport for diet, which It can be introduced in schools as an initiation. “This sport is going to be known by many people, by many practitioners and I hope we can see it as a sport as active as in the US,” he said.
In addition, Roberto Pérez, president of the Spanish Pickeball Association expressed his utmost happiness in welcoming the current representatives of this sport: “Today I came here to support this event that has stars who achieved the top in Europe, and to demonstrate what this sport is. We are very happy with the agreement we have reached. come to become a federation”.
“Now, with this integration agreement with the Spanish Tennis Federation we are going to grow much more, we are going to be able to have Pickle World in schools, institutes, in sports centers in all areas and we are going to provide a new sport for the city, a sport with a very high inclusive value,” Pérez stressed
2023-10-19 12:13:57
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