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          The scale of pickleball’s growth is well documented. According to the Sports
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          North America accounts for roughly 43% of that total. Paddle sales in the U.S. alone represent an estimated $135 million in annual sales. The pace of product introduction gives some indication of where the industry’s energy is focused. In its 2024 Annual Growth Report, USA Pickleball noted it had approved 1,225 new paddle models from 476 
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          The infrastructure investment is equally striking. In a joint 2024 report, the SFIA and court-tracking platform Pickleheads estimated that $855 million in new court construction is needed over the next five to seven years to meet current demand, and that dedicated pickleball facilities grew 55% year-over-year in 2024.
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          By the digits
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              Year
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              Est. players (US)
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              YoY growth
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              Key milestone
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              2015
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              2.5M
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              —
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;color:#555555;font-size:13px;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif">
              Sport growing mainly in retirement communities
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              2016
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              2.8M
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;font-weight:600;color:#555555;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              +12.0%
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;color:#555555;font-size:13px;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif">
              USAPA membership sees early uptick
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;font-weight:600;white-space:nowrap;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              2017
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              3.1M
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;font-weight:600;color:#555555;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              +10.7%
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;color:#555555;font-size:13px;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif">
              First dedicated pickleball facilities open
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              2018
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              3.3M
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;font-weight:600;color:#555555;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              +6.5%
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;color:#555555;font-size:13px;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif">
              PPA Tour launches; first pro circuit
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;font-weight:600;white-space:nowrap;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              2019
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              3.5M
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;font-weight:600;color:#555555;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              +6.1%
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;color:#555555;font-size:13px;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif">
              APP Tour &amp; Major League Pickleball founded
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;font-weight:600;white-space:nowrap;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              2020
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              4.2M
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;font-weight:600;color:#185FA5;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              +20.0%
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              COVID outdoor boom drives +21% surge
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              2021
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              4.8M
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;font-weight:600;color:#555555;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              +14.3%
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;color:#555555;font-size:13px;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif">
              Named fastest-growing US sport (SFIA)
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              2022
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              8.9M
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;font-weight:600;color:#0F6E56;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              +85.4%
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;color:#555555;font-size:13px;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif">
              Mainstream breakout; largest single-year jump
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;font-weight:600;white-space:nowrap;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              2023
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              13.6M
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;font-weight:600;color:#0F6E56;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              +52.8%
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;color:#555555;font-size:13px;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif">
              Surpasses tennis in monthly participation
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;font-weight:600;white-space:nowrap;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              2024
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              19.8M
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;font-weight:600;color:#0F6E56;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              +45.6%
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;color:#555555;font-size:13px;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif">
              PPA &amp; MLP merge under UPA
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;font-weight:600;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              2025
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              24.3M
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;font-weight:600;color:#185FA5;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              +22.7%
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              5th straight year as fastest-growing US sport
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           The upgrade cycle, by design
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          The paddle market is where the commercialization dynamic is most visible. Carbon fiber
construction, textured surfaces, and proprietary polymer cores are now table stakes for any paddle above entry level. Manufacturers release new SKUs at a cadence that mirrors that of consumer electronics. Industry research firm Global Market Insights puts the average paddle replacement cycle among engaged players at 12 to 18 months — despite paddles being physically capable of lasting far longer.
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          This pattern is familiar to anyone who has watched adjacent recreational markets mature. Carbon-plated running shoes became 
effectively mandatory for serious amateur runners within three years of their introduction. Cycling saw ultralight carbon frames and electronic shifting systems transition from professional-only to aspirational consumer purchases — a shift that doubled and tripled the average transaction value for enthusiast buyers without meaningfully improving the recreational experience. Golf, of course, wrote the original playbook.
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          What drives this cycle is a psychological mechanism that might be called upgrade anxiety — the belief 
that marginal equipment improvements translate into measurable personal performance gains, and the corollary fear that failing to upgrade constitutes a competitive disadvantage. For amateur players, this belief is almost always empirically unjustified. It is, however, commercially potent.
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          The mechanism works because it exploits something genuine. Recreational athletes do improve, and equipment quality does vary. The industry’s sophistication lies in engineering a product ladder where the incremental performance 
differences between tiers are real but negligible — just measurable enough to be defensible in marketing, just small enough to ensure the next tier always beckons.
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           Who built this market?
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          What distinguishes pickleball from a sport that commercialized organically is the degree to which its premium positioning was deliberately constructed from the top down.
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          Celebrity and institutional capital moved into the sport early and strategically. 
LeBron James, Tom Brady, Kevin Durant, and Drew Brees have all invested in professional teams or leagues. The PPA Tour and Major League Pickleball merged in 2024 under the United Pickleball Association; according to industry publication The Dink, combined sponsor revenue reached $25 million that year — a 56% increase over 2023. Major League Pickleball founder Steve Kuhn has stated publicly that his goal is for the UPA to rank among the top five professional sports leagues in the U.S. by viewership within the 
decade.
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          Professional players function as the sport’s influencer class, their equipment choices amplified through social media and tournament coverage to an amateur base primed to emulate them. Signature paddle lines — the Ben Johns model is only the most prominent example — tie premium pricing to aspirational identity in the same way that signature athletic shoes have done in basketball and running for decades. The machinery is not new. Its application to a sport that was explicitly designed to have no machinery is what
makes pickleball interesting.
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           The accessible sport’s paradox
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          There is a genuine tension at the center of this story. Pickleball’s extraordinary growth was fueled in significant part by its accessibility — lower physical barriers than tennis, simple rules, short learning curve, and strong social dimension. These qualities attracted millions of players who might never have engaged with a racket sport. Now, the same market forces that scale any consumer
category are layering cost and complexity onto that accessible base.
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          This creates a structural paradox that the industry has not yet had to fully reckon with. Premium gear culture and aspirational pricing tend to correlate, over time, with narrowing participation demographics. The sports that have traveled furthest down the commercialization path — golf, cycling, skiing — have also struggled most visibly with participation barriers and demographic homogeneity.
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          Pickleball is not there yet. At 24 
million players and growing, it retains genuine breadth. But the $250 paddle is a signal worth reading carefully. It marks the point at which a sport stops being defined by who it welcomes and starts being defined by what it sells.
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          For executives watching this market — whether as investors, sponsors, facility operators, or simply as players — the more useful question is not whether upgrade anxiety is rational. It rarely is, in any category. The more useful question is how long the sport can sustain premium pricing 
growth while also maintaining the accessibility story that made it worth investing in in the first place. Those two narratives are, in the end, in competition. How pickleball manages that tension will determine whether it becomes the next golf — lucrative, enduring, and demographically constrained — or something genuinely new.
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          Quotable
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                   Today we have a front row seat to a celebrity pickleball tournament unlike any other, mostly because there haven’t been any others.
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                  —Comedian Stephen Colbert while hosting Pickled, a two-hour CBS celebrity pickleball tournament in 2022 that benefited Comic Relief and featured the likes of Emma Watson, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Will Ferrell
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          Pickleball Spending
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           <colgroup>
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              Category
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              Est. US spending
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              Notes
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;font-weight:600;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              Paddles
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              ~$85–135M
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;color:#555555;font-size:13px;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif">
              Largest equipment sub-segment; 60%+ of hard-goods spend. 7.2M+ paddles sold globally in 2024
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;font-weight:600;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              Balls &amp; nets
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              ~$40–90M
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;color:#555555;font-size:13px;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif">
              Balls are high-consumable; 15M+ sold globally in 2024. Balls market alone est. $40–90M by 2026
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;font-weight:600;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              Apparel &amp; footwear
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              ~$200–350M
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;color:#555555;font-size:13px;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif">
              Fast-growing; dedicated pickleball shoe lines from major brands. ~18% of total market
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              Court construction
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              $500M–$900M+
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;color:#555555;font-size:13px;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif">
              14,000+ new courts built in 2024; SFIA estimates $855M–$900M still needed to meet demand
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;font-weight:600;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              Facilities &amp; venues
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              $300M+
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;color:#555555;font-size:13px;border-bottom:0.5px solid #E5E5E0;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif">
              USA Pickleball credited $300M+ in new facility development in 2023; dedicated facilities up 55% YoY
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              Coaching &amp; clinics
             </td>
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              Growing
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              Expanding fast with pro-level instruction, youth programs, and corporate wellness
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              Tournaments &amp; media
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             <td style="padding:8px 12px;text-align:right;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:16px">
              Growing
             </td>
             <td style="padding:8px 12px;color:#555555;font-size:13px;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif">
              PPA + MLP merged under UPA; combined sponsor revenue hit $25M in 2024, up 56% YoY
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          Brief History
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          <span style="color:#000000">
           1965
           <span class="ql-cursor">
            
           </span>
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          <span style="color:#555D68">
           Joel Pritchard, Bill 
Bell, and Barney McCallum create pickleball on Bainbridge Island, Washington, as an accessible, family-friendly game, using inexpensive equipment such as a Wiffle ball and homemade plywood paddles.
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          <span style="color:#000000">
           2018
          </span>
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        <td class="editor-cell-text td100" colspan="6" style="line-height:1.7;background-color:#EDF0F4;width:100%;padding:5px 30px 
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          <span style="color:#555D68">
           Professional play is born. The PPA Tour launches as the sport's first professional circuit, giving manufacturers an aspirational stage to market premium gear.
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        <td class="td100" colspan="6" height="15" style="width:100%;height:15px;font-size:1px;vertical-align:top;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif">
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          <span style="color:#000000">
           2020
          </span>
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          <span style="color:#555D68">
           The pandemic inflection point. Player counts surge 21% to 4.2 million as COVID-19 drives demand for outdoor, socially distanced recreation (SFIA).
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          <span style="color:#000000">
           2021
          </span>
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          <span style="color:#555D68">
           Celebrity capital arrives. LeBron James, Tom Brady, 
and Kevin Durant invest in professional teams, signaling top-down construction of a premium sports brand.
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           2022
          </span>
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           The mainstream breakout. Player counts nearly double to 8.9 million — an 85.7% single-year jump — and the $250 paddle becomes an ordinary retail item (SFIA).
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         <h2 style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;Margin:0;text-align:left;font-family:Noto Sans,sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-weight:bold">
          Fun Fact
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          <span style="color:#555D68">
           The sport that's now a $2.2 billion industry almost didn't have a name at all.
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          <br/>
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           In the summer of 1965, after co-inventor Joel Pritchard improvised a backyard game from ping-pong paddles, a Wiffle ball, and borrowed rules from badminton and tennis, his wife Joan looked at the whole mismatched contraption and thought of the
          </span>
          <strong style="color:#555D68">
           pickle boat
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           — a crew racing term for the vessel crewed by oarsmen left over from other teams, thrown together just for fun.
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