Pickleball v. Tennis

Wager a guess at how many pickleball courts there are in the U.S.? If you said more than 68,000. You would be correct. There are more than 270,000 tennis courts. From a land use perspective, you can put 4 pickle ball courts in the place of a single tennis court. The  Santa Monica Pickleball Center says it receives 7 times as much revenue from pickle ball as it does from tennis.  Seems like less space required with more revenue. If you’d like a deep dive into the economics of pickleball:

NY Times | How Pickleball Took Over Thousands of Tennis Courts, as Seen From the Sky