Pickleball vs. tennis: How the games’ leaders are competing to be America’s favorite racket sport

Does American tennis have a pickleball problem? Even as the U.S. Open opened this week with more than a million fans expected for the sport’s biggest showcase, the game’s leaders are being forced to confront a devastating fact—the nation’s fastest-growing racket sport (or sport of any kind) is not tennis but pickleball, which has seen participation boom 223% in the past three years. “Quite frankly, it’s obnoxious to hear that pickleball noise,” U.S. Tennis Association (USTA)...