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August 29, 2024

Does American tennis have a pickleball problem?

  • Pickleball's rise has often come at the expense of thousands of tennis courts encroached upon or even replaced.
    • By JAMES MARTINEZ
    Associated Press

    NEW YORK — Does American tennis have a pickleball problem?

    Even as the U.S. Open opened this week with more than a million fans expected for the sport's biggest showcase, the game's leaders are being forced to confront a devastating fact — the nation's fastest-growing racket sport (or sport of any kind) is not tennis but pickleball, which has seen participation boom 223% in the past three years.


     
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