One of the fastest-growing sports in the country, and by far the fastest-growing sport in the US, has the most ridiculous of names. You’d really have to wonder who came up with it and why. Pickleball. It does, indeed, involve a ball. It does not, to my knowledge, involve a pickle. It’s not just the name that elicits an exasperated response. It’s also the sound of this sport being played, due to the noise of the plastic ball ricocheting off the plastic bats. Even John McEnroe has got in on the act, calling the sport “stupid” for this very reason. Mind you, as was pointed out to McEnroe immediately afterwards, he has played pickleball himself, to which the former Wimbledon champion, not particularly renowned for his reticence and shyness, replied that “they paid me more money for that than I got paid for tennis”. Which pretty much put paid to…
The Irish Times · Irlandahace 43 minutos