hey guys I want to show you something take a look at what used to be two beautiful tennis
courts that I used to use and take a look what happened now we have pickleball going on they
built a bunch of pickleball courts where tennis courts used to be and this is happening all across
the United States so in today's video I want to answer a very important question is pickleball
killing tennis and guys before I answer this question I want to show you that there are still
four tennis courts over on the other side of the road so they only converted two tennis courts into
pickleball so no pickleball is not killing tennis and I'm going to get into some stats by the usta
where you will see that tennis is doing quite well and guys I made several pickleball videos
one dating back to very early on when I started my YouTube channel because I've been observing this
trend for more than five years now even before I started my YouTube channel I saw people playing
pickleball more than tennis here in Florida especially I would be on the tennis courts and
be completely empty and pickleball courts would be jammed packed with people waiting in line so this is
something that I've been observing in Florida so I made a video close to a year ago and the video
was titled pickleball is killing tennis this was just my observation here in Florida now a lot of
you guys reached out to me privately through DMs and emails and informed me that no this is
not true Nick pickleball is not killing tennis tennis is doing quite well in other parts of
the country especially in a place like New York City and one of my students that I'm really close
to shout out to Jay he would send me pictures of people standing in line at 5am or 6 a.m in
the morning to be able to get a tennis court and these people would stand in line for two
hours in order to play tennis so it is absolutely not true pickleball is by no means killing tennis
and there's numbers from the USTA that confirm this so let me read you this earlier this year
the USTA announced that more than 22.6 million players took to court in 2021. this number was
a 4.5 percent increase from 2020 and a 27.9 percent increase from 2019 and an increase of
4.9 million players from 2019 to 2021. tennis total increase of 4.9 million players in the
two-year span exceed the total growth of all other racket sports combined including pickleball
badminton table tennis and padel so guys that data right there proves that pickleball is
not killing tennis tennis is doing quite well in the United States but even internationally
I spent a lot of time in Europe this summer and observed that tennis is doing phenomenally well
in a country like Italy for example there is quite a tennis boom going on there and possibly
in other countries in Europe as well if you look at professional tournaments you'll see that the
stands are packed and there's a lot of interest for tennis so you're probably thinking Nick why
are you making another pickleball video why are you standing in a kitchen telling us all this
because there is a problem guys even though tennis is doing well there's a war going on
between pickleball players and tennis players and there's an article that just came out in
the New York Times titled pickleball is expanding tennis is mad and it shows the war that's going on
between pickleball players and tennis players so I highly encourage you to read this article that
is quite fascinating what is going on and I've personally experienced this war as well I
get a lot of messages where tennis players are complaining that their local tennis courts are
being turned into pickleball courts I have had a lot of pickleball fans in my pickleball videos
a pickleball Channel even did a reaction to one of my pickleball videos I want to tell you that
I have absolutely nothing against pickleball I understand that it's an easy sport to pick up
it's a fun sport to play it's a very social sport I have absolutely no problem with people playing
pickleball but the problem is that pickleball for whatever the reason may be is trying to make
it into the tennis scene somehow not only are tennis courts being converted into pickleball
at a record number this is happening all across the United States I get a lot of people messaging
me with petitions where people are trying to save their local tennis courts but it's not only that
I don't get why pickleball and tennis cannot be separate entities why is it that pickleball has
to be forced upon the tennis community where there's a lot of tennis enthusiasts that hate
pickleball why is pickleball being rubbed into our face for example on a recent cover of the
tennis magazine Ben Johns was featured on the cover that's a professional pickleball player I
don't understand why tennis magazine would feature pickleball I also don't understand why the tennis
channel is showing pickleball matches especially showing pickleball on the day that Roger Federer
retires from tennis and this is what gets us tennis players so angry we don't care that you
like pickleball but when our beloved local tennis courts get turned into pickleball we get very
angry but also when we start seeing pickleball in the tennis magazine when we start seeing
pickleball on the tennis channel it makes absolutely no sense and that's why we're angry
so what needs to happen for this war between pickleball and Tennis to stop it has to be a
separation between these two sports the thing where tennis courts are being destroyed this
thing needs to stop because people love playing tennis you can build pickleball courts separately
from tennis when it comes to featuring pickleball in the tennis magazine this makes absolutely no
sense when it comes to pickleball being shown on the tennis channel this makes absolutely no
sense these things need to be separated and look I understand that people see this as an opportunity
to make money especially when we're talking about tennis clubs or even tennis magazine or tennis
channel they're just going after what people are interested in I don't blame them for that
this makes sense from a financial standpoint but what they also need to understand when they do
things like that a lot of tennis players are gonna get very angry and this war is going to continue
and tennis clubs have to be blamed as well the Bobby Riggs tennis club in California has the
following slogan once a full tennis facility now a pickleball player's dream and just to be
transparent with you guys I want to tell you that there's a brand new trend that I've been observing
that a lot of pickleball players are going to dislike and it's the following a lot of high-level
tennis players and former professional level tennis players are converting to pickleball I know
two former professional players these are friends of mine that are going to try to play prize money
pickleball tournaments and I'm sure you heard that Noah Rubin Junior Wimbledon champion a
phenomenal tennis player is going to try to play professional pickleball and so is former
top 10 player Sam querrey and a recent podcast that I listened to hosted by one of the best pickleball
players in the world that had Sam querrey on as a guest they were talking about the fact that sam
querrey can easily really get into the top 10 in the world of professional pickleball so I think
this is a trend that you're going to see more and more high level tennis players are going to see
pickleball as an opportunity to make some money and I'm not by any means saying that sam querrey
and noah rubin are playing pickleball to make money at it I'm not saying that at all they're probably
playing pickleball because they like it it's fun for them but I do think that tennis is the king
of all racket Sports you have high level tennis players or professional level tennis players enter
the high level or the professional pickleball scene they're gonna do extremely well so guys
I keep making pickleball videos because this is a super important topic that a lot of people are
talking about a lot of people are upset about this and the solution to ending this war this
drama there needs to be a separation between the sport of pickleball and the sport of tennis