San Antonio is no exception when it comes to pickleball’s popularity.
Hamilton Community Center, 10700 NacogdochesPittman-Sullivan Park, 1101 Iowa St.Like a lot of people, Rachel Simon, a freelance writer in Raleigh, N.C., started playing pickleball during the pandemic when she and her now-husband Kurt were quarantining with his dad and stepmom.“We were getting antsy and bored,” she said. “Then Kurt got a pickleball set for his birthday. We made a court out of chalk on the driveway and started playing.
Yet pickleball can also be played at a high level. Fox Sports, ESPN and the CBS Sports Network all have broadcast tournaments sponsored by corporations such as Hertz, Hyundai and Carvana. Top players make between $50,000 and $200,000 annually, although much of that comes from gear endorsements. Such dust-ups have little effect on players such as Elvira Guevara, who discovered the sport only about a year ago. But she enjoys it so much that before she went to Albuquerque to visit her sister recently, she went online to find where she could get a good game.
While the park also has 14 tennis courts, on a recent early Tuesday evening, only two were in use. Meanwhile, the pickleball courts were so busy that players had to call “next” by placing their paddles in the numbered slots of a specially built caddy. Demand is so great that on weekends players need to reserve court time, even in the heat of the summer.For years, retired banker Mark Johnson was an avid tennis player and golfer. But about a year and a half ago he started hearing about this new sport with the funny name, so he asked Reblin about it.
“Since I took ownership of the center , pickleball participation has doubled,” he said. “And our revenues from pickleball have increased 130 percent, which includes tournaments and training revenues.”
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