News Pickleball@Hingham Tennis

2023

28th October four players from Hingham Pickleball attended the English National championships in Bolton this weekend...our first such national event ....and we came away with medals. Sliver medals for Fay and Helen who played together in the 3.5 rating 35year + ladies doubles category and bronze for Darren who played alongside his partner Sylviano from Cambridge in the mens 3.5 rating 50 year + category. A fantastic acheivement for our little club!!

Oct Another successful in club tournament with 24 of our members competing in different skill brackets.

Feb. Our next tournament in Sunday 5th Feb 2023. IJoin us in the bar from 1pm for social lunch.

Jan. Player numbers continue to rise so the extra 915 Friday start looks set to stay,

2022:

Oct 24 players had a fun afternoon of Pickleball at Hingham's third tournament. 

April. We held our second ever Tournament at Hingham. 20 players battled in out for honours with Bev and Ian winning the most number of matches and Fely scoring the highest number of points in 6 times rounds of 10 minutes. A lot of laughs and some snacks and cakes afterwards.

2020. Hingham Tennis' Jonathan Lindner is now an IPTPA level 1 certified Pickleball coach.

Hingham Pickleball held their first  tournament on the afternoon of Sunday 19th January, preceded by  3 coach led skills sessions which were led by Jeff van der Hulst on the same day. A total of 23 players played in the tournament and an amazing 35 players attended either the coach led sessions, the tournament or in many cases both!

The doubles tournament final was played out between Chris Taylor and Seshni Mohammned vs Jonathan Lindner and Adrian Watling with Jonatahn and Adrian the final winners. Congrats to all players who participated especially those new to Pickleball and playing in their first tournament. An enjoyable afternoon that we hope to replicate again later in the year.

2019.

In December 2019 Hingham hosted two paddle demo sessions in conjunction with TopSpin tennis (Gamma paddles) and Pickleball Jeff (Paddletek). 

Pickleball in Hingham has really taken off with over 7- players having tried Pickleball. most of them for the first time! We have around 35-40 regular players but luckliy not all at once! Tuesday evening sessions currently have  14-17 players whilst Friday morning sessions have 8-14 players. We also play on the last Sunday evening of each month  at 7pm (after the Hingham Antiques fair).

Feb 2019 Hingham Tennis held a taster Pickleball session with Pickleball Jeff.  In March 2019 we started running regualr Pickleball sessions in Hingham on Friday mornings then added Tuesday evenings.