About eight several years ago, when brothers Rob Barnes, then 19, and Mike Barnes, then 21, founded a pickleball paddle-maker, they encountered a great deal of skeptical glances.
“We mentioned the term ‘pickleball’ — people today would say, ‘What is that?’ No just one realized about the sport then, but now when we chat about pickleball just about everybody has read of it and wants to test it,” reported Mike Barnes.
The name of the sport, whimsical and nondescript, may perhaps invoke an picture of a sluggish-going match performed by retirees in Florida. But the paddle activity — a