As a longtime tennis player, I’d always thought paddle tennis looked kind of silly. The game’s mini-courts, mini-racquets without strings and punctured tennis balls seemed more like props in a circus ...

A combination of tennis, racquetball and squash, paddle tennis is a fast-paced social game popular in the winter months. Played on a court that's roughly a third of the size of a regulation tennis ...

First things first: It’s not the same as pingpong. “Paddle tennis” might sound like a spruced-up version of the classic basement pastime, but the sport, which has been steadily growing in popularity ...

Like Sig Alerts and obsession over See's Candy, paddle tennis is one of those L.A. peculiarities only real Angelenos understand completely. Tiny courts, wooden paddles dotted with holes, deflated ...