Sport introduction - Pickleball

Pickleballs is a ball game similar to tennis, combining elements of badminton, table tennis and tennis. Two to four players hit a perforated polymer ball (similar to a Wiffle ball) with 26-40 round holes using a strong racket made of wood or composite material. The sport has the characteristics of other racquet sports: the size and layout of badminton courts, nets and rules are similar to those of tennis. Invented as a children's yard game in the mid-1960s, pickleball is one of the fastest growing sports in the United States. Today, pickleball is rapidly gaining popularity, with more than 8,000 locations in the United States. The e popularity of the sport is attributed to its popularity in community centers, physical education classes, parks, private health clubs, YMCA facilities, and retirement communities. The sport has also continued to grow globally, with many new international clubs formed and national governing bodies now spread across multiple continents. In the United States, the governing body is the American Pickleball Association (usapicklebal.org), which hosts multi-category national pickleball competitions.

How to play Pickball

Basic overview

Pickleball is played on a 20 "x44" badminton court. Serve diagonally (starting with the server on the right) and only the server can score.

Before a volley is played, the players on either side must bounce the ball once, and there is a seven-foot no-volley zone on each side of the net to prevent "spiking." The server continues to give the ball, alternating courts, until a mistake is made. The first to score 11 points and win by at least 2 points. Pickleball Paddle can be played in singles or doubles.

Serve

Serve is performed in a diagonal form, starting from the right hand service court, and each serve is performed on alternate courts. The service court must cross the non-volley zone 7 feet in front of the net and land on the diagonal service court.

The racquet should be below the waist for each stroke, and the server must place both feet behind the baseline when serving. The ball hit the air without bouncing. The server will continue to serve until there is a service error, at which point the right to serve will be given to the other team (if the ball grazes the net but still lands in the appropriate service area, the right to serve is still in service.

The server must hit the ball away when serving, the server is not allowed to flick the ball and hit it, and the serve must cross the non-volley zone to reach the diagonal court, including the line (a serve that hits the non-volley zone line counts as out). Only one serve is allowed, unless the ball touches the net of the service court and lands on the court, in which case it may be reserved. At the beginning of each new game, the first serving team is allowed one error. After that, if two players from each team miss any service, the right to serve is handed over to the other team. When the receiving side wins the service game, the player in the right hand court always starts.

volley

A volley is when you hit the ball in the air without letting it bounce. A volley can only be hit if the player's foot is behind the non-hitting zone line (7 feet behind the net). note

A volley is when you hit the ball in the air without letting it bounce. A volley can only be hit if the player's foot is behind the non-hitting zone line (7 feet behind the net). Note: It is illegal if a player crosses the center line during the volley.

Double-hop rule

The double jump rule is also known as the "double bounce rule", where each team must hit the first ball on the bounce. The receiving team must bounce the ball before returning it, and the serving team must bounce the ball before hitting it. It takes two bounces to empty or bounce the ball.

score

A team can only score when serving. The server should continue serving until the team misses. In the case of doubles, each player in the team should continue to serve until the team misses and then the ball is transferred to the opposing team, which is called "out". The game is played on an 11-point scale, but the team must lead the opponent by two points to win.