Tennis players will continue to dominate pickleball Of…
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Tennis players will continue to dominate pickleball
Of course there will be exceptions, but for the time being, I believe that most elite pro pickleball players will continue to come from tennis.
This will probably continue until pickleball becomes a D1 college varsity sport and scholarships are available. This is because there is a worldwide ecosystem for developing young tennis players that creates phenomenal athletes, and this doesn’t exist (yet) for pickleball.
Tennis parents spend $60-100k per year to send their kids to school at elite tennis academies like IMG, Evert and Saviano, where they split their time approximately 60/40 between training and academics. All with the goal of getting D1 scholarships and/or going pro.
So, even the kids that never make it as pro tennis players are world-class athletes nonetheless, so they have a headstart in the transition to pro pickleball.
So my opinion is that until pickleball becomes a D1 college sport, that kind of youth development ecosystem won’t evolve in pickleball, so converted tennis players will continue to have an edge. Thoughts?
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Of course there will be exceptions, but for the time being, I believe that most elite pro pickleball players will continue to come from tennis.
This will probably continue until pickleball becomes a D1 college varsity sport and scholarships are available. This is because there is a worldwide ecosystem for developing young tennis players that creates phenomenal athletes, and this doesn’t exist (yet) for pickleball.
Tennis parents spend $60-100k per year to send their kids to school at elite tennis academies like IMG, Evert and Saviano, where they split their time approximately 60/40 between training and academics. All with the goal of getting D1 scholarships and/or going pro.
So, even the kids that never make it as pro tennis players are world-class athletes nonetheless, so they have a headstart in the transition to pro pickleball.
So my opinion is that until pickleball becomes a D1 college sport, that kind of youth development ecosystem won’t evolve in pickleball, so converted tennis players will continue to have an edge. Thoughts?
#sport
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