Goodbye tennis, hiya pickleball: Why so many US stars are switching sports activities

Goodbye tennis, hiya pickleball: Why so many US stars are switching sports activities [ad_1]

A number of former and present tennis gamers from United States and different nations are switching to sport referred to as pickleball. The game of pickleball is gaining recognition quickly within the US and the world over. Jack Sock, Kaitlyn Christian, Sam Querrey and Donald Younger are among the American tennis gamers who've been signed into Carvana PPA Pickleball Tour.

American tennis star Jack Sock who has signed for PPA Tour(X(previously Twitter)/@PPAtour)

Sock has introduced that he would retire from tennis after 2023 US Open. To the shock of many, Sock is retiring on the age of solely 30 years whereas senior tennis gamers like Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic proceed to play the sport.

One of many causes for switching to pickleball is that the game is much less demanding on the physique. As pickleball turns into extra common, it should draw sponsors and big variety of spectators, thus narrowing the pay hole as in comparison with a sport like tennis.

The 2023 Carvana PPA Tour to which the tennis gamers have switched to for enjoying pickleball, has a complete prize cash purse of $5.5 million. Furthermore, the official web site of the tour guarantees equal play and pay to prime female and male gamers.

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All about Pickleball

Pickleball is type of a mixture of tennis, desk tennis and badminton and the sport was invented in 1965.It's performed on an oblong courtroom measuring 44 foot by 20 toes with a flat paddle and a perforated plastic ball. The peak of the web that divides the courtroom on the middle is 34 inches.

It may be performed with two gamers(singles) or 4 gamers(doubles). It's the quickest rising sports activities in the USA.

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