Quick answer: Pickleball in Guilford CT centers on Bittner Park, the town’s 136-acre park on Route 77, where Guilford Parks and Recreation runs seven outdoor pickleball courts. The town built its first four dedicated courts there in 2021. There is…
Short answer: Collin Johns is a 33-year-old former touring tennis pro who became half of the most successful men’s doubles team pickleball has seen — with his younger brother Ben — and who is now rebuilding his career on his…
Short answer on PPA vs APP: they are two separate professional pickleball tours. The PPA Tour is the bigger one, with most of the sport’s biggest names. It belongs to the same company as Major League Pickleball and DUPR. The…
Short answer: The PPA Tour Europe season opened with the P250 Barcelona Open, held September 23–27, 2026. Spain’s Judit Castillo won the first triple crown of her career, and Spanish players took men’s doubles gold. It is the first of…
Quick answer: The push drop in pickleball is a third shot drop hit with no backswing. You keep the paddle out in front, point the tip down, hold the handle loosely, and lift the ball over the net with a…
Quick answer: Pickleball in Marblehead MA runs on 10 dedicated town courts plus two dual-lined courts, split between Seaside Park (94 Atlantic Avenue) and Marblehead Veterans Middle School (217 Pleasant Street). The courts are free, open 8 a.m. to 9…
Quick answer: High school pickleball in Massachusetts is still a club sport. It isn’t an MIAA-sanctioned sport, and the MIAA’s 2025-27 handbook never mentions it. But the path changed in November 2025. The MIAA now has an “Emerging Sport” category,…
Quick answer: Pickleball in cold weather is completely playable if you change four things: the ball, what you wear, how you warm up, and how you judge the court surface. Plastic pickleballs get harder and more brittle as the temperature…
The 30-second version Almost every paddle spins great when it’s new. The number that actually matters is how much of that spin it still has months later. Reviewers rate that with a spin-durability Tier system, 1 to 4, based on…
Quick answer: T700 pickleball paddles, and their close cousins labeled Toray carbon fiber, look like the spin bargain of the whole catalog. The 139 paddles in our database carrying either label average about 6.87 spin, against 6.17 for raw carbon…
