Some stories say that it was named after the founders' family dog, Pickles, who kept running off with the ball.
Others
that Pickles was born two years after the game's inception and that the
name is instead a reference to a pickle-boat -- the boat in a race
composed of leftover crews from other teams -- like pickleball itself
with its patchwork assortment of equipment and rules borrowed from tennis, badminton and ping-pong.
Complete with its quirky name, this eccentric sport has begun to enter American mainstream culture and become the new thing.
'A sport for everybody'
The
basic aim of pickleball, like with other racket sports, is to hit the
ball over the net and prevent an opponent from hitting it back.
It
can be played in singles or doubles, inside or outside on a 20-foot by
44-foot court -- approximately the size of a badminton court -- and
lasts until one side reaches 11 points, with a two-point cushion.
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