• hmclarke1991OPB
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    1 year ago

    Yeah I haven’t reinvented the wheel, but I do think Padel will continue to grow a lot because it kind of satisfies both ends: easy for beginners, but still a lot to learn for more advanced/hungry players.

    Tennis is hard and has no “fun, social, easy” analog like topgolf, go-karting etc that some other sports have. Perhaps pickle is meant to be that analog, but yeah, the rise of these variants is something for tennis to think about and try and fix in terms of “how do we make the beginner experience great”

    • Mikhail_MengskB
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      1 year ago

      I can’t think of any way to do that, sadly, the technical requirements are too high. At first you can’t even reliably send the ball over the net much less get in a rally. Maybe more emphasis could be put into minitennis for newcomers, but as the article says the new players would be very aware of the fact that they aren’t really playing tennis…