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Message: [QUOTE="CONN78SEJ, post: 5009328, member: 10604"] If I recall correctly, enclosed paddle tennis courts had a very tacky gritty surface to minimize slips and falls in a very small court area, however what that sudden stopping also did was to cause a lot of torn ACL’s, torn Achilles, bloody scrapes when someone did fall, etc. Pickleball is similar except it doesn’t have the fenced in enclosure. Both are ridiculously silly sports that are also dangerous, with players running in short spurts, sudden stopping and turning on a much smaller court with basically a super sized ping pong paddle instead of a racquet, all because 95% of active people young and old who have attempted tennis find mastering the serve in tennis is extraordinarily difficult, so instead of educating them on how to serve like a pro with that spin and whip like action, some genius tried inventing a tennis like sport that does away with the tennis serve. Actually the tennis serve is very easy once the light bulb goes on in the head of someone learning tennis. I taught tennis for several years and there is a foolproof way of teaching a tennis serve in a way where the student discovers the secret themselves and not from just watching the tennis instructor. I mean if it was that easy then everyone would be serving like Roger Federer or John McEnroe, but it actually is. [/QUOTE]