Racket Sports.
Tennis, padel, badminton, table tennis, and pickleball
3 to play for a rating today · 2 coming to the board
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Table Tennis
Reflexes and spin at ten feet. Table tennis looks gentle until someone serves with backspin and the ball dies on your side of the net. The table's small. The reactions aren't.
See itBadminton
The shuttlecock moves at 300mph. Twenty feet of court between you and trouble. Badminton is the sport that looks like a garden game until you play someone who knows what they're doing. Then it's a problem.
See itPickleball
Tennis meets ping pong on a smaller court with a stupid name and an unreasonable amount of fun. Pickleball is the sport everyone mocks until they play it. Then they're booking courts.
See itComing to the board
These run today: the draw, the fixtures and the results all work. The rating comes when we build the marker.
Tennis
Serve. Rally. Break. Tennis is the sport where momentum is visible — you can see it shift mid-set, watch someone find it or lose it in real time. Every game is a conversation. Every set is a chapter.
Padel
Walls, glass, and angles you didn't think existed. Padel is tennis for people who like options — the court plays back, every surface is in play, and the lob you thought was safe just got smashed off the back wall.
Nothing matches that.