NOW everybody can play – pickleball that is! Players just need an open space half the size of a tennis court, a net, a hard but light plastic ball and a pair of paddles slightly larger than that a ping pong bat, and they can play for hours to get a really good sweat out.
In America where it started in the Summer of 1965 by a man called Joel Pritchard and two friends (Bill Bell, Barney McCallum), there is already a pickleball craze embraced by millions.