It is sport that sweeps the nation, and there does not seem to be slowing down because pickleball can be seen and heard in parks throughout the DC region.
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How pickleball has become a pillar in the DC region
It is sport that sweeps the nation, and there does not seem to be slowing down because pickleball can be seen and heard in parks throughout the DC region.
Stimulated by the pandemic and people looking for a socially distant activity, the paddle game played on a shorter short than a tennis court exploded in popularity.
“Everyone can play, no matter your age, your ability – you will have fun,” Cori Lathan, a regular player of Capitol View -Homewood Park, told Kensington, Maryland.
Jeanen White trains pickleball in the Takoma district of DC and considers it a sport that all ages can play.
“From my 13 year old son to my 80 -year -old friend, I like it to bring together ages to do something good for your health,” said White.
With its popularity in the arrow, the interior pickleball game has also become a large company, with several facilities that appear throughout the neighborhood.
“It is social and competitive, it is a community,” said Cristin Caine, who leads Dill Dinkers to North Bethesda. “I think people like that they can simply present themselves to open parts and not have to send a million people to see if they can play, and you don’t have to worry about the weather.”
Sport that shares the judicial space with tennis also shares the space of shelves in stores which were formerly specific to tennis.
Tennis Topia owner Marco Impeduglia saw the change arriving about two and a half years ago in his Rockville store Maryland and quickly made the adjustments.
“The pickleball was starting to blow up the world of tennis out of the water, and it was then that I realized that there was a lot of demand for pickleball, shoes and equipment paddles,” said Impeduglia. “Since then, it was a great success.”
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Impeduglia does not see the trend ending soon.
“We are about five years old in the pickleball wave and it increases every day every day every month,” he said. “It is simply easy to find now an outdoor pickleball field, mixed or dedicated line, especially in the DMV zone and it is really easy to start playing.”
Dylan Salzman, fourteen, started playing pickleball recently, but quickly rises, capturing the first championship of the open division of the county of Montgomery in double for the Northwest High School last fall.
Salzman’s goals with his new sport: “Perhaps being recognized, perhaps to become a professional, because I think it’s a very good sport and I think I’m not bad in this area. So I think that if I get a shot, I will not waste it,” he said, in reference to the Pickleball of Major League, which was trained in 2021.
“Pickleball is there to stay,” said Lathan. “It will be an Olympic sport, I’m sure.”
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