Tennis and Pickleball

fatlazyless · 09-02-2025, 07:25 AM

Over the last few years a number of public town tennis courts in Moultonborough, Meredith, Laconia and Holderness have been modified for playing pickleball with the addition of pickleball lines and portable nets.

Sept 1, 2025, NY Times ..... 'How Pickleball Took Over Thousands of Tennis Courts, as Seen From the Sky' with comments ...... and on Facebook ..... http://www.facebook.com/NYTimes/post...5702125412249/ ..... "It seems like a lazy tennis player game" and "Who invented pickleball anyway!"

Here's a quote from Cincinnati .... "When we first started back in 2020, it was primarily 70-year-olds playing pickleball. Today, he said, the fastest growing segment is players 20 to 35."

Talk about redoing an old tennis court ...... in North Conway, what were three or four tennis courts built in the 1970's to 80's tennis surge got reconstructed into a Market Basket which sells pickles .... ho-ho-ho.

Fifty summers ago, on Sunday, August 10, 1975, Jimmy Connors beat Ken Rosewall, 6-2, 6-2, at the singles final held at the Volvo International tennis tournament held in North Conway, NH. These two guys are big big names in tennis history and they played about ten years in Bretton Woods and North Conway .... www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_International

Oh well, here in central N.H. there's no doubt about the popularity of pickleball. One big reason is the availability of pickleball as an indoor winter sport going from Oct 1 to May 30. Many N.H. towns already have indoor basketball gyms that are large enough to hold three indoor pickleball courts by adding floor lines and portable nets. Some will argue this point but playing tennis is a more difficult game than pickleball because the tennis court is three times larger and controlling a tennis racquet is more challenging.

09-02-2025, 07:25 AM	#1
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,832 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 302 Thanked 1,033 Times in 752 Posts	Tennis and Pickleball Over the last few years a number of public town tennis courts in Moultonborough, Meredith, Laconia and Holderness have been modified for playing pickleball with the addition of pickleball lines and portable nets. Sept 1, 2025, NY Times ..... 'How Pickleball Took Over Thousands of Tennis Courts, as Seen From the Sky' with comments ...... and on Facebook ..... http://www.facebook.com/NYTimes/post...5702125412249/ ..... "It seems like a lazy tennis player game" and "Who invented pickleball anyway!" Here's a quote from Cincinnati .... "When we first started back in 2020, it was primarily 70-year-olds playing pickleball. Today, he said, the fastest growing segment is players 20 to 35." Talk about redoing an old tennis court ...... in North Conway, what were three or four tennis courts built in the 1970's to 80's tennis surge got reconstructed into a Market Basket which sells pickles .... ho-ho-ho. Fifty summers ago, on Sunday, August 10, 1975, Jimmy Connors beat Ken Rosewall, 6-2, 6-2, at the singles final held at the Volvo International tennis tournament held in North Conway, NH. These two guys are big big names in tennis history and they played about ten years in Bretton Woods and North Conway .... www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_International Oh well, here in central N.H. there's no doubt about the popularity of pickleball. One big reason is the availability of pickleball as an indoor winter sport going from Oct 1 to May 30. Many N.H. towns already have indoor basketball gyms that are large enough to hold three indoor pickleball courts by adding floor lines and portable nets. Some will argue this point but playing tennis is a more difficult game than pickleball because the tennis court is three times larger and controlling a tennis racquet is more challenging. __________________ ... down and out, liv'n that Walmart side of the lake! Last edited by fatlazyless; 09-04-2025 at 12:11 AM.