Pickleball

Have fun playing Pickleball at Chalke Valley Sports Centre in Broad Chalke

Moonrakers Pickleball Club is a new club at CVSC and welcomes anyone over the age of 18 and all standards and abilities. Our club sessions are on Monday afternoons from 2pm to 3.30pm and Wednesday evenings from 6pm to 9pm, the cost £1 per hour, if you like to join us please contact Val at the email address below.

Pickleball
Pickleball is a fun sport that combines elements of badminton, tennis, and table tennis. Played both indoors or outdoors on a badminton-sized court and a slightly modified tennis net. Two or four players use solid paddles made of wood or composite materials to hit a perforated polymer ball, over a net.
This is one of the fastest growing sport and is great fun for all ages and abilities.

Basic Rules
The ball is served underhand from the right side of the court and is played diagonally across to the other service court. The defending side has to let the ball bounce first before it can be returned and, subsequently, the serving side also has to let the ball bounce. It is only on the third ball that the ball can be returned immediately. Either you can play a volley or you can let the ball bounce first.
Points can only be scored by the serving side. You win a point if the defending side does not manage to return the ball, hits the ball out, does not let the serve ball bounce, volleys in the non-volley zone, or is hit by the ball. The game ends when one of the parties gets 11 points, with a 2-point lead.
When a side scores a point, the same person serves, but from the other side of the court. When a player loses a point, his or her partner serves from the side of the court where he or she is standing at the moment. If this service also fails to score, service goes to the opponent and the opponent begins the service on the right. For the first service, however, the service changes sides after only one serve.
When playing singles, the player serves from the left if he or she has an uneven number of points, and from the right with an even number of points. This is how scoring is kept: 1-0-1 means that the serving side has 1 point, the other side has no points, and this is the first server.

For more information contact Val Dolan at Moonrakerspickleball@outlook.com


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