Tennis and Pickleball

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Over the last few years a number of public town tennis courts in Moultonborough, Meredith, Laconia and Holderness have been modified for playing pickleball with the addition of pickleball lines and portable nets.

Sept 1, 2025, NY Times ..... 'How Pickleball Took Over Thousands of Tennis Courts, as Seen From the Sky' with comments ...... and on Facebook ..... http://www.facebook.com/NYTimes/post...5702125412249/ ..... "It seems like a lazy tennis player game" and "Who invented pickleball anyway!"

Here's a quote from Cincinnati .... "When we first started back in 2020, it was primarily 70-year-olds playing pickleball. Today, he said, the fastest growing segment is players 20 to 35."

Talk about redoing an old tennis court ...... in North Conway, what were three or four tennis courts built in the 1970's to 80's tennis surge got reconstructed into a Market Basket which sells pickles .... ho-ho-ho.

Fifty summers ago, on Sunday, August 10, 1975, Jimmy Connors beat Ken Rosewall, 6-2, 6-2, at the singles final held at the Volvo International tennis tournament held in North Conway, NH. These two guys are big big names in tennis history and they played about ten years in Bretton Woods and North Conway .... www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_International

Oh well, here in central N.H. there's no doubt about the popularity of pickleball. One big reason is the availability of pickleball as an indoor winter sport going from Oct 1 to May 30. Many N.H. towns already have indoor basketball gyms that are large enough to hold three indoor pickleball courts by adding floor lines and portable nets. Some will argue this point but playing tennis is a more difficult game than pickleball because the tennis court is three times larger and controlling a tennis racquet is more challenging.

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Here's a pickleball playing venue with three indoor courts ..... http://www.facebook.com/p/Pickleball...1573568173967/ ...... recently built by a private group and NOT the Town of Rangeley.

A great big congratulations on constructing this all new 3-court pickleball building in beautiful Rangeley, Maine.

Does it ever snow or get cold outdoors in Rangeley, Maine? ...................... ........ no, never!

Driving from Meredith NH to Rangeley ME is 164-miles and 3-hours 20-minutes. Rangeley is way up north beyond Errol, NH, somewhere up there in the Maine Appalachian Trail mountains, somewhere on 6000-acre Rangeley Lake.

#1 best Facebook comment from Melissa A. Marshall: "Now we just need an Olympic size pool for swimming year round ...... my wish!!!!"
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You know that Waterville Valley, NH has both an indoor, heated 82-degree, 24-meter swim pool plus a three pickleball indoor venue in their elementary school gym located 1/10-mile short walk away from one another on a snow removed, town sidewalk.

White Mountain Athletic Club, www.wmacwv.com .... Waterville Valley, NH ...... indoor 24-meter swim pool and two 104-degree hot tub whirlpools, two indoor tennis courts and 1/18-mile indoor running track

Indoor pickleball, Waterville Valley, NH ..... http://wvrd.recdesk.com/Community/Calendar ....... $5/non-residents for 1.5-hr or 2-hr pickleball session, all-play or advanced
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Driving from Meredith NH to Waterville Valley NH is 37-miles and 42-minutes via Rt 3/Rt 175/Rt 93/Rt 49.

Does it ever snow or get cold outdoors in Waterville Valley, NH? ........................... ....... no, never!