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. You go by yourself, and you say your name. So, without much more than noticing that this guy wanted to play and was “tall and handsome with muscular thighs and blue eyes…he was a stud,” she said, the foursome took to the court. Nobody asks any status-related questions, they just show up to play. In the Hamptons, the pickleball court seems to be the one place where no one cares what you do for a living, says Kritzer, the founder of Kritzer Marketing. It started to explode in the United States around 2020. Using ping-pong paddles and a lowered badminton net, they created pickleball, as the lore goes. Despite its recent surge in popularity, the sport has actually been around since the late 1960s, first played sort of ad hoc when Washington State congressman Joel Pritchard and his friend Bill Bell’s families were looking for something to do one day. Pickleball, for the unacquainted, requires a foursome. Like she always does, Kritzer asked the strangers if they wanted to team up because that’s how it’s done on this court, she said. Already on the court, a young man and his female companion waited for opponents. She frequently goes alone, but on this day she was joined by Danielle Lise Desrochers, her spouse who doesn’t play regularly. Since it’s a public court, unlike almost anything else in the Hamptons, it’s free. Last month, Southampton resident Lizzz Kritzer 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.
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