Edmonton’s tennis community concerned over potential loss of courts to pickleball popularity
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A battle of sorts is heating up between tennis and pickleball players as the popularity of one explodes, the city could be converting existing tennis courts into pickleball courts.
A court battle of sorts is heating up between tennis and pickleball players in Edmonton. As the popularity of pickleball explodes, the city could be converting existing tennis courts into pickleball courts.
The two games have similarities, but when it comes to court size, they’re different and that’s creating conflict.
“It takes up one quarter of the space than a tennis court plays on,” said Doug Fogg with the Edmonton Pickleball Club. “Usually a tennis court you’ll have two playing on (it). We could have 16 people playing pickleball on a court.”
Pickleball popularity has exploded and space to play is limited, Fogg said, particularly in Edmonton where there just aren’t enough courts.
“Red Deer’s got 20 pickleball courts built by the City of Red Deer, Sherwood Park has 12 permanent pickleball courts, 12 courts in Stony Plain, 12 courts in St. Albert.”
So the pickleball community is looking to take over some tennis courts.
Tennis Edmonton said that means it will be losing some prime playing real estate to the Coronation Park Community Sports Centre project to meet this growing demand.
“The city is actually going to tear down the tennis courts here at Coronation and they are going to replace it with only two tennis courts and a couple of pickleball courts,” Miranda Smith, with Tennis Edmonton, said.
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