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| Paddle Tennis Photo by Oliver Sjöström on Unsplash |
As senior manager of brand partnerships with SHE Media in New York City, Beecher Scarlett builds upon a long and successful career in the television industry. He has served as an account executive with NBC Universal, TVGN, and 20th Century Fox. Outside of the professional arena, Beecher Scarlett is an avid paddle tennis player.
From deck tennis to pickleball, more and more people are playing variations of tennis. Created by Frank Peer Beal in Albion, Michigan, paddle tennis began as a children’s playground game in the late 1800s. Although the rules of paddle tennis play are, by and large, quite similar to traditional tennis, the paddle tennis court and equipment used are substantially different.
While a tennis court measures 78 by 27 feet, the much smaller paddle tennis court measures 50 by 20 feet. Court details, such as the distance from service line to service line, are also different.
Paddle tennis players also use entirely different equipment than tennis players do. Unlike traditional tennis, which requires a stringed racquet, paddle tennis, true to its name, requires players to use a solid paddle that may contain small perforations. Although paddle tennis players use standard tennis balls, these must include a puncture hole in order to reduce internal pressure. When dropped from 6 feet, a paddle tennis ball should bounce off the court to a height of 31 to 33 inches.
