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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not many POC play PB.  There are 76 PB courts in Fairfax County, and if you go to any of them at any given time, you rarely see POC and PB.  That is unless you count Asians as POC.  Go to any lifetime, Onelife, Village Pickle in Leesburg, PB in Tysons, and you hardly see any POC there play PB.

One thing about PB as a varsity sport in Montgomery, you can bet that 100% of team will be made up of tennis players that will also play varsity tennis in the spring.  Anyone else will not stand a chance against them  :) [/quote]

That’s a silly comment.  Pickleball is basically doubles game…plenty of people can become great at pickleball that would suck at tennis (or don’t play tennis) because you have to move so much less.

Again…it’s the equivalent of saying tennis players can easily become the best ping pong players because there is a racquet and a net.

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PB is also a single game, and it is also very physically demanding, not as much as single in tennis but there are so much court to cover, unlike double PB where non-athletic people just "dink" the ball into the kitchen area.

If you're a competitive tennis player, you get really good at PB in less then one month, and I can say this from personal experience.  I had a 11 UTR tennis rating when I started playing PB and it took me three weeks to get good with PB.  I can hit topspin and serve at 60MPH and easily beat up 5.0 PB player.  That's why you see former tennis players like Jack Sock and Chris Haworth started PB in less than a year and they already beat Ben Johns .[/quote]

Pickleball has a kitchen? Now we’re talking! This is my sport![/quote]

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