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GreatGazoo

(4,831 posts) Fri Jul 10, 2026, 09:13 AM Jul 10

What Would You Guess Ended the Pickleball Craze? [View all]

"From 2022 through 2024, pickleball was the fastest-growing sport in the U.S"

And now?

"These project are starting to default on their loans and go out of business," said the business expert in his TikTok video. "These developers thought that the sport would continue growing at the same rate, but this might be the beginning of the end for the sport's dominance."

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/pickleball-dying-analyst-lays-signs-100000440.html

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What Would You Guess Ended the Pickleball Craze? [View all] GreatGazoo Jul 10 OP

Non-participants rejecting the annoying noise? Harker Jul 10 #1

Very much this. GPV Jul 10 #12

They installed several pickleball courts at our recreational lake. CrispyQ Jul 10 #2

Mid-age to elder injuries? Chasstev365 Jul 10 #3

A big factor - yes GreatGazoo Jul 10 #16

Oh Yeah... Give Peace A Chance Sunday #22

A comfortable chair in the AC? Lochloosa Jul 10 #4

LOL GreatGazoo Jul 10 #15

Cranky old people and Floyd R. Turbo Jul 10 #5

I see empty courts most of the time. Outdoor courts down the road from my house hardly ever are used. Diamond_Dog Jul 10 #6

People went back to playing Cornholio? House of Roberts Jul 10 #7

Too many......... MyOwnPeace Jul 10 #8

Weird, but I think... some_of_us_are_sane Jul 10 #9

Pickleball has been a mystery to me. Polly Hennessey Jul 10 #10

Last summer the three women in our bike doc03 Jul 10 #11

peanut butter injuries? And then I realized you were talking about pickleball injuries!! I am so used to seeing PB as SWBTATTReg Jul 10 #14

Pickleball has given Orthopedic surgeans a lot of buisiness lol. doc03 Jul 10 #18

I'll bet!! SWBTATTReg Jul 10 #19

like other exercise fads, when people found out it involved sweat rurallib Jul 10 #13

It sure has not ended here! OldBaldy1701E Jul 10 #17

Maybe they ran out of recruits Marthe48 Jul 10 #20

"What Would You Guess Ended the Pickleball Craze?" LudwigPastorius Sunday #21

GOOD one! some_of_us_are_sane Sunday #24

It seems to still be going gang-busters around these parts. Xavier Breath Sunday #23