For the rapidly decreasing number of Americans who’ve never heard of pickleball, the obscure paddleball game is one of America’s fastest-growing sports.
Shannon Mullen, NPR NewsFreida Yueh says of the increasingly popular sport of pickleball: “It’s addictive so we just started playing and now with our other friends and relatives—actually everybody we know now plays pickleball.”
Upson believes pickleball can keep growing without losing the accessibility that’s fueled its rise over the last decade. The program is capped at about 50 people with dozens on the waiting list, and some pickleball players got so serious that their sessions are now supervised and players are separated by skill level.
Pickleball is also fast becoming a spectator sport. Its first professional tournament, the Professional Pickleball Association Tour, formed in 2018 and was recently acquired by the owner of the Carolina Hurricanes National Hockey League team. USA Pickleball sanctioned a second pro tour that started a year later, launched by the Association of Pickleball Professionals.
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