In the Hamptons, the pickleball court seems to be the one place where no one cares what you do for a living—they just show up to play.
arrived at Southampton Youth Services—a public recreation center—at 7 a.m., like she does every day, to play pickleball, a hobby she picked up in the spring at the urging of a friend. Since it’s a public court, unlike almost anything else in the Hamptons, it’s free. She frequently goes alone, but on this day she was joined byher spouse who doesn’t play regularly. Already on the court, a young man and his female companion waited for opponents.
Kritzer partnered with the guy, and, because she’s competitive and by now a seasoned player, she was quick to give him some tips. “I was telling him to hit it harder, to run to the net…to give some hustle and stay in the game,” she said. “I told him to keep focused.” She laughs as she shares the story because she eventually learned what he does when he’s not playing the hottest new sport in America.
One of the reasons pickleball is so popular on the East End could be because most people who populate the Hamptons in the summer have time–they’ve either already made their fortunes, they’re retired, or are on vacation. “Nobody works,” said Kritzer. It’s a bit like summer camp for adults for 60 to 90 days of the year.
“Tennis was religion,” Murphy said. Decades ago, “every kid had tennis whites and a racket. That was Sunday. You did tennis,” he said. Now it’s pickleball, which he hasn’t had time to play because he’s too busy building courts. Those with existing tennis courts are adding pickleball stripes, he said, but he doesn’t have time to even field those calls, nevermind stripe them, as there are too many requests. He sends them to another company for that.
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