Pickleball championships in town, featuring best venue, most money in new sport’s history

(November 2, 2018 Indian Wells, CA, www.desertsun.com)

The rackets are smaller and the balls are louder, but when it comes to passion there’s very little separating the competitors at this week’s Margaritaville USA Pickleball National Championships and the BNP Paribas Open pro tennis tournament in March.

The Indian Wells Tennis Garden is the site for both events and for the next eight days it’s the pickleballers who will be taking over one of the elite facilities for racket sports. Read More…