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Originally Posted by rsmurano
Not true! You can be good at either or be bad at either. Tennis is much harder on your arm/elbow than Pickleball. You got a long racquet in tennis that puts a lot of strain on your arm/elbow that's why you see strings and racquets made specifically to help ease the pain. I have played many decades in USTA tennis, years of Pickleball, decades of table tennis and decades of racquetball. You really can't say 1 is easier over the other to master.
Playing 2-3 hours of any of these sports, I would say racquetball is more stressing on the body. Smaller court but much faster and you normally play singles. Tennis, most of us now play doubles and most of the players that I've seen here are 3.5 so not much speed or heavy serves.
Pickleball here you have a wide range of players from beginners to 5.0 and most play is doubles.
Also, the click/clack noise of Pickleball comes from a hard ball with a hard paddle, which tennis and racquetball are played with strings and a softer ball. Table tennis you have rubber skins do that deadens the ball sound, but if you go back to sandpaper paddles, you will get a similar noise as Pickleball.
Another benefit of Pickleball is that it is much more fun/socializing to play than the other sports mentioned here. Tennis doesn't provide players to jump in every 11 point game like Pickleball so you normally play with the 4 players you come with. Table tennis and racquetball you are playing singles and if you do rotate, it still isn't a social game as Pickleball.
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Some of what is said in this post I consider to be true. I would humbly add that tennis players with a 2 handed backhand rarely have arm problems. And one-handed backhand players with excellent technique rarely have arm problems. It is the one-handed beginners and players with the bad techniques that experience arm problems. Also, stiff tennis rackets are bad for seniors.
Now, as far as pickleball being the most sociable of the 4 racket sports mentioned (note we have left out badminton, which has great popularity worldwide). A player can play any of the racket sports in a "hit and giggle"
manner or in a super serious manner. It's NOT the game, it is the attitude. And I am NOT knocking the "hit and giggle" concept, especially for seniors. I have seen too many people of all ages get TOO serious and TENSE when playing, especially singles.