Pickleball players pushing Wellesley for outdoor courts

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Pickleball takes over tennis courts at BSC Wellesley

 

With the weather in Wellesley on the brink of getting halfway nice, pickleball players are looking to bust outside.

Pickleball, if you aren’t familiar with it, is an increasingly popular paddle sport for 2 to 4 players that borrows from tennis, badminton and wiffleball. Wellesley hosts bunches at games at spots such as the Rec Center at the Warren Building (Mondays for various levels, Thursdays for ages 55+) and at BSC Wellesley, where Pickleball player John Merrill says “the play is intense” on Thursdays and Fridays on two of the tennis courts. Pickleball is popular across genders, too, he says.

Merrill says local players are urging the town to line a couple of courts in town (maybe at the Sprague Fields) for Pickleball play, and when we checked in with the Rec Dept, they weren’t ruling out the possibility sometime after Town Meeting ends if there’s enough demand…