That’s the surprising sound that comes off my perforated paddle as I hit a ball with it for the first time. I’m expecting a lighter noise, something like the click you get in ping-pong, or the echoey ...

As a lifelong tennis player, I’ve managed to dodge the pickleball craze. The courts are crowded, the plastic-ball thunk isn’t exactly music to my ears, and the gameplay feels a little…flat. But when I ...

From squash to tennis to padel, here's what to know about the trendiest paddle sports: Still the world's most popular racket sport, tennis has royal origins, with its predecessor often alluded to as ...

HUMANS HAVE long enjoyed hitting things back and forth. A predecessor to badminton was supposedly played in Asia more than two millennia ago. In the 12th century members of the French royal family ...

Private clubs and public facilities are striving to be more things to more people as they try to defuse the tension between tennis and fast-growing racket sports like pickleball. Padel, pickleball and ...

The fast-growing racket sport of padel could overtake tennis in Britain just as it already has in Spain, according to the nation’s greatest doubles player Jamie Murray. The total number of padel ...

You’ve heard of pickleball, the wildly popular sport that’s gone mainstream. But now there’s padel — another racket sport that’s surging in popularity and one that has strong Latino roots. “It’s a ...