Wellesley pickleball consultant works on amicable solution to town's pickleball crisis

By adamg on Mon, 01/29/2024 - 9:42am

The Swellesley Report updates us on the town's efforts to find a way to allow pickleball without outraging non-pickleball players. With the week's best pickleball-news editor's note.

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Comments

Better hurry

By Lanny Budd on Mon, 01/29/2024 - 1:16pm.

By the time all these courts are built, the players will have moved on the the next fad.

Fad?

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 01/29/2024 - 1:34pm.

I'd call it a trend. Remember: we were all told how electric bikes and scooters were going away very soon. Electric cars, too. Now the naysayers are resorting to fake news stories to try to kill them.

I'd say pickleball is about as faddish as Tennis and Golf. It is a very accessible sport.

yeah

By Lanny Budd on Mon, 01/29/2024 - 3:22pm.

I still have to dodge all the platform tennis courts in my way.

You raise a good point

By Kaz on Mon, 01/29/2024 - 4:32pm.

Since the courts are the same size, you can essentially play both on the same court (assuming the balls bounce similarly on the court material).

Or

By Sock_Puppet on Mon, 01/29/2024 - 3:28pm.

The next world

It may or may not be a fad

By fungwah on Mon, 01/29/2024 - 4:36pm.

but it does seem like it'd make sense to try and make sure that whatever they build could be easily converted to other uses if needed. Hopefully that's part of this $70k study they've commissioned.