The game has become an antidote to loneliness and digital fatigue. It provides old-fashioned joy. People meet, laugh, argue over line calls and go home happier
It began quietly, a few years ago. The soft pop pop pop of a soft ball on a small court could be heard in the corners of a handful of Mumbai clubs. A strange American import with a stranger name, pickleball, had arrived.
At first it was greeted with mild curiosity. A few fitness enthusiasts tried it out, a couple of NRIs evangelised it, and some bored tennis players wandered over, attracted by the promise of a lighter workout.
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