Utah is 'spoiled' when it comes to pickleball, Tournament of Champions organizer Kristy Wolford said. “We jumped out first, we got our facilities up early. We’ve been riding the wave and the tournament has gotten bigger and bigger every single year.”
Professional pickleball player Jessie Irvine returns a volley during the PPA Tournament of Champions in Brigham City, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. Pickleball players must play behind a 7-foot no-volley zone on each side of the net and must let the ball bounce once before volleys are allowed.From the outside, a pickleball tournament may seem similar to a tennis tournament, what with the rackets and balls lobbing back and forth.
From left, Chris Cervera and Kevin Deyo, both from Colorado, play a pick-up game of pickleball at the Professional Pickleball Association Club Tournament of Champions in Brigham City, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022.Utah, Jansen said, is one of five major pickleball “pockets” — with others in California, Florida, Kansas and in Austin, Texas, where she relocated from Spokane, Wash., just to get better at pickleball.
The TOC takes place across 24 courts at Brigham City’s Rees Pioneer Park. In 2019, Wolford said, she counted over 500 public courts in Utah, and that accessibility is what makes the state produce professional athletes so quickly. Wolford recalled an experience with a woman who was immobile and “becoming stiff.” After six months of pickleball, the woman’s doctor told the woman, “I don’t know what you’re doing, but let’s keep doing it.”
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