A gentle cross between tennis, badminton and ping pong, pickleball is an easy game to pick up. Sam Wollaston has a little dink
he sports hall of a school in New Malden, south-west London, may seem an unlikely venue for a revolution. But here, on an icy Thursday night, a revolution of sorts is taking place. Comrades are facing off, honing their skills and sharpening their reflexes.
It’s good exercise, it’s strategic, it can be as hard or as easy as you want, and most of the time it’s just good fun’ Right, it’s time for us virgins to get involved. We’re Joe, retired Chris, who’s 69, Gail and Dan, Anita and Neil, Sam from the Guardian, and Militsa from Bulgaria. Lou shows us how to hold the paddle – much as you’d hold a ping pong bat, though it’s best to keep fingers off the flat surface otherwise they might get wiffled – and we practise pickleball keepy-uppy, hitting the ball up with one side of the paddle then the other.
In doubles, then, you can’t have one of you hanging out at the net, smashing anything that comes your way. The serve is underarm, more about starting a point than trying to win it – an ace is rare in pickleball. The return has to bounce, too, so no Navratilova-style serving and volleying, please.
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