This is the Association of Pickleball Professionals s second tournament in St. Louis. It featured over 400 pro and amateur players competing for a total of $50,000 in prize money.
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/ Pickleball enthusiasts enjoy a sunny day of play in Tilles Park in St. Louis last week.
If you’re looking for a racket sport this spring, you might find some of the old standbys are a bit passe. Tennis? Too hard. Racquetball? No one wants an indoor sport during a pandemic. Well, how about pickleball? The main problem with this laidback version of tennis, pingpong and badminton may be that it’s just too popular. Courts across the region seem perpetually filled with players.
The very fact that the courts exist is largely the work of one man, as