Pickleball

The Gatesville Parks and Recreation Department has installed two regulation Pickleball courts at the Raby Park.  The courts are located adjacent to the City Pool and Skate Park. 

EVENTS

Turkey Slam Pickleball Tournament 11/24/24 - Open to all skill levels.  Round Robin tournament format.  Registration is open now until November 20th.

REGISTER NOW

Once you have registered for the tournament, make sure you join the Facebook group Gatesville Pickleball Club for all tournament updates.

For information on future Gatesville Pickleball leagues and tournaments, please sign up for Text and Email Alerts  or follow Gatesville Recreation Department on Facebook.

For Adaptive Pickleball rules, click here.

WHAT IS PICKLEBALL?

A fast-growing and fun sport that combines many elements of tennis, badminton, and ping-pong. It is played both indoors or outdoors on a badminton-sized court with a slightly modified tennis net. Players use a paddle and a plastic ball with holes. The game is played as doubles or singles.

WHAT ARE THE PICKLEBALL RULES?

A pickleball game starts with one player standing behind the baseline to serve the pickleball to a player on the opposite diagonal side of the court.  A few other rules are unique to pickleball, including the two-bounce rule described in this summary of pickleball rules.

BENEFITS OF PLAYING PICKLEBALL

Pickleball’s social and health benefits to different generations and genders have fueled the strong growth of the sport.  Pickleball is fun and social at one level and competitive at another.

Thousands of pickleball players comprise a wide cross section of the population. Seniors, juniors, adults, men, and women enjoy the physicality as well as the feelings of camaraderie the sport invokes.