Pickleball
Discover one of the UK's fastest growing sports at Phoenix Fitness Centre.
Pickleball is a paddle based sport that is a mixture of tennis, badminton and table tennis.
Played on a badminton sized court, no previous racket sport experience needed as it easy to pick up and play straight away.
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Equipment available to hire.
Pickleball rules - doubles
- Picklebal is played on a court with the same dimensions as a badminton court.
- Played by 2 pairs using pickleball paddles and a pickle ball.
- A game is usually played up to 11 points and must be won by 2 clear points.
- Serves are diagonal, like tennis, starting on the right-hand side and alternating. The serve must clear the NON-VOLLEY ZONE.
- Each team must play their first shot off the bounce. That is, the receiving team must let the serve bounce and the serving team must let the return of the serve bounce before playing it. Once these two bounces have occurred, the ball can either be volleyed or played off the bounce.
- Volleys are only allowed when both of the player’s feet are behind the non-volley zone line.
Pickleball rules - Singles
- Pickleball is played on a court with the same dimensions as a badminton court.
- Played by 2 players using pickleball paddles and a pickleball.
- Before serving, the server calls out the score, the server’s score first and then the receiver’s score.
- The server’s score determines the side from which to serve. Serves are executed on the right side of the court when the server’s score is an even number (0, 2, 4….) the left side when the server’s score is odd (1, 3, 5 ,….)
- Serves are diagonal, like tennis, starting on the right- hand side and alternating. The serve must clear the NON-VOLLEY ZONE.
- A game is usually played up to 11 points and must be won by 2 clear points.