Say goodbye to the year with a innovative, fun modality designed for any age group or skill level. It is the proposal offered by the program +Atlantic Sport for the last weekend of 2025, in which it will promote, together with the Vigo Country Club and the Galician Tennis Federationand pickleball tournament.
It’s not the first time of this incipient racket modality in the sports program of this newspaper, which last year sponsored a initiation day at the Mercantil. On this occasion, the Coruxo entity takes over to carry out the first tournament +Sport Atlántico.
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It is one more step of pickleball on his landing in Europe. The discipline, which combines elements of tennis, paddle tennis and badminton, is booming in the United States, where it was invented just over half a century ago. In fact, former professional tennis players like Jack Sock o Eugenie Bouchard They compete in tournaments with a growing television following.
This modality is played with paddles instead of rackets and contemplates the competition both in single and double format. It is played in a track 13.41 long by 6.10 widedimensions significantly smaller than a tennis court. The serve is done below the waist and the raw game attack the volley. Of course, it is only allowed to do it behind the line that delimits the so-called kitchen2.13 meters from the net. In the rest of the rules, including that the ball bounce onceit is very similar to tennis.
The biggest difference is the perforated ballsin this modality, which makes the much faster learning curve. Also that each partial is won by reaching 11 pointsalways with two advantage on the rival(s). All these details and the evolutions of the level of the players They can be seen on Saturday and Sunday at the Country club by the hand of Atlantic and the FGT.
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Registrations closed with 30 players
The registration period for the +Deporte Atlántico pickeball tournament closed last Monday. A total of 30 players signed up for this weekend’s event, which will feature several different draws.
