Introducing pickleball, a cross between ping-pong, badminton and tennis!

Get the ball! Invented in the 1960s, pickleball is a combination of ping-pong, tennis and badminton.

When it’s wet and windy, they play at the Dancel YMCA. When it’s warm and sunny, they play at Atholton Park or on the Oakland Mills tennis courts. When they travel, they seek out pick-up games. Wherever they are, whatever the weather, Howard County pickleball players are gonna play, play, play.

“It’s infectious,” said Charlie Brown, director of the pickleball programme at the Dancel YMCA in Ellicott City, Maryland, the United States. “Once you get on the court, and if someone sort of knows what they’re doing and you explain what to do, you start enjoying it very quickly. It’s quick gratification.”