This is quite a pickle. And to some, it's quite a big dill. Tennis players are soured over pickleball players taking over their courts. That's making pickleball players a little salty.
, there are dinkers, who make soft shots on a bounce that gently arc over the net; and bangers, who drive the ball hard to overpower their opponents. In his dealings with the city, Boyland is definitely a banger.
“Basically, pickleball is a second-class citizen because tennis was here first,” he said. “We can satisfy 10 times more people playing pickleball than are currently being used on empty tennis courts. I have nothing against tennis. I have a lot against empty tennis courts, hour after hour after hour.”
Last week, he and other picklers stormed the courts, set up their own pickleball net, and started to play. Someone from Peninsula Tennis Club called the police, and a dispute erupted over whether they had an active permit. The entire thing was captured on YouTube, though the video has since been taken down.
“The city wants both sports to thrive, but not with hindering one over the other,” Graham said. “The city is trying to find ways to provide as many pickleball courts as possible without displacing other organizations and put them together as quickly as possible without building an entirely new facility.”
“Adams is viewed as a neutral third party in both the tennis and pickleball communities,” Graham said. Her work would be funded by a grant from the US Tennis Association and she’d interview both sides and come up with some sort of pickleball-tennis peace treaty.Plus, Graham said, the city is open to making plans for a centralized pickleball facility, maybe even at Robb Field, but he conceded it would take several years to build.
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