Tennis players are stubborn. We spend years learning how to serve, move, construct points, and control a tennis ball. Then someone invites us to play pickleball, badminton, , or ping-pong, and our first reaction is “this isn’t tennis.” No, it’s not. The court is smaller. The racquet looks different. The ball bounces lower or not at all, but once you start playing, you quickly discover that many of the same skills needed to compete are the same. These same skills can impro