There is a sport that is conquering the USA. Spoiler: It is not the Padel. After the explosion of past years, the glass and cages are living with another discipline that literally is literally conquering ground.
Farewell to the tennis courts: the pickleball arrives
We are talking about pickleball And its expansion is reaching, in a short time, the same levels of what has been done in recent years by the Padel. Il New York Times has perfectly photographed this situation: Thousands of tennis courts are leaving space for pickleball. The US newspaper has conducted a real analysis, identifying thousands of pickleball fields that have been built from 2018 to today.
To make room for this discipline, in the vast majority of cases, spaces once reserved exclusively for tennis. The analysis data of the New York Times They are clear: in 2024, on average, in the United States they were made 14 pickleball fields per day.
What is pickleball, the sport that the US is conquering
Born in 1965 in the United States, Pickleball is a hybrid racket sport between tennis and badminton that is played on a rectangular field of 6.10 × 13.4, identical per singular and double. On each side of the field there is the Non-Volley Zone (the “Kitchen”), where it is forbidden to hit the fly. A rigid paddle (without ropes) and a perforated plastic ball is used; The service is at hand, from the field fund, with impact under life and sent diagonally into the opposite box beyond the Kitchen line.
Among the important rules of pickleball there is the one concerning the service. Upon starting each exchange, the rule of the two rebounds is worth: the ball must touch the ground once on the side before the volée are allowed, only afterwards can you play both on the fly outside Kitchen and after rebound. The game is quick and tactical: short and controlled exchanges alternate near the net with deep strokes and passenger to move the opponents.
