Despite not involving eating pickles, pickleball proves to be a joyful surprise

While playing decent tennis requires a certain degree of skill, this feels like a simpler game to master As a child, it seemed as though everyone in my world played tennis. I grew up in a small outer suburb where sport had currency and tennis was at the heart of our community. The clubhouse and red clay en-tout-cas courts sat in the centre of town, surrounded by a local hall, a kindergarten and a plot of land for the mobile library to park each Tuesday afternoon. Those courts were always in use....