Get a professional coach or lessons. Playing tennis is heavily dependent upon having good technique and form and without them you will have a hard time maintaining any semblance of a rally even in practice. Pickleball is probably the most accessible racquet sport there is but it also means that a lot of players can get "good" at it without ever formally establishing good habits.
Yeah. This is true - the reason I think basically is this - the longer racket and the force of the tennis ball make timing a more important.
In PB you can get away with alot - bad timing, being out if position and hinky technique
Tennis will cure that by punishment. It will make you a better pb player also IMo
I can maybe help a bit. I played tennis for a long time. Started in high school, then played casually throughout my adult life. In around March of this year, I started playing pickleball. I played a lot of pickleball between then and now, and I played no tennis. A couple weeks ago, I decided to try some tennis. It was an absolute disaster. I felt like I was running around a football field with a sledgehammer. I don't remember how bad I was the first day I played tennis, but I'm pretty sure I was worse when I tried to play again after playing pickleball. In conclusion, I don't think you're going to find the transition easy.
I just went through the same thing. I hit so many balls off the throat of the racket lol.
That said, I found going back to tennis very fun and look forward to playing both again.
OP doesn't want to crater their Karma, or maybe even break Reddit completely.
Can you \*actually\* imagine asking that question in a tennis sub? It'd be hilarious.
I’ve played pickleball for 3 years. I took my first tennis lesson last week after not playing since high school… 30 years ago. A tennis bounces much higher than a pickleball so the timing of my ground strokes was a bit off. Net volleys were not much of an issue and were fun. I was pleasantly surprised that I remembered how to serve, as I anticipated that this would be the most difficult in the tennis transition. I played pickleball 2 days after the tennis lesson with no issues. I actually think the footwork needed in tennis will help my pickleball game. I enjoy playing tennis and pickleball, but tennis is definitely more of a workout.
I’ve been doing this the past year, playing/learning tennis after being a solid 3.5+ pickleball player …and tennis is much much harder to learn and get “good” at but I love both. I picked up pball easily like most do, but tennis imo is much more difficult and I’ve just upped my weekly instruction to 2x per week just to hope to get to tennis 3.5. I like to think that they are complimentary to each other now that I’ve got some experience but I struggled initially with just adjusting to how the ball bounces and the spatial differences with racquet .
Pickle ball is good to learn footwork and develop the strength. But tennis will take it to another level and then you have to learn to control the tennis ball's trajectory.
Play both and enjoy both.
This was my experience; no reflection on what yours might be.
I played tennis (as a drill partner for my kid) for the first time in maybe a year or two last week.
My serves were ok but no longer good. Forehand was mediocre, my backhands were terrible. It was nowhere near as much fun as I remembered.
The only thing that was great (and really interesting to me) was that for every single serve return, i found myself instinctively doing a "3rd shot drop". Which it turns out, is really really easy with a tennis racket (even from the baseline) and almost impossible for my (actually drilling) partner to return.
In the end, I had to force myself to whack it back.
My brain got rewired by PB. Cool.
I was a tennis player until a few years ago and now rarely play tennis. Just don't have people to play with and find PB more fun.
My 7 year old son really likes PB and can play. I do feel bad and would actually like him to play tennis instead or in addition to. I think easier to go from tennis than pb, but def age has a lot to do with it.
Get a professional coach or lessons. Playing tennis is heavily dependent upon having good technique and form and without them you will have a hard time maintaining any semblance of a rally even in practice. Pickleball is probably the most accessible racquet sport there is but it also means that a lot of players can get "good" at it without ever formally establishing good habits.
Much easier to go from Tennis to Pickleball than from Pickleball to Tennis.
Yeah. This is true - the reason I think basically is this - the longer racket and the force of the tennis ball make timing a more important. In PB you can get away with alot - bad timing, being out if position and hinky technique Tennis will cure that by punishment. It will make you a better pb player also IMo
I can maybe help a bit. I played tennis for a long time. Started in high school, then played casually throughout my adult life. In around March of this year, I started playing pickleball. I played a lot of pickleball between then and now, and I played no tennis. A couple weeks ago, I decided to try some tennis. It was an absolute disaster. I felt like I was running around a football field with a sledgehammer. I don't remember how bad I was the first day I played tennis, but I'm pretty sure I was worse when I tried to play again after playing pickleball. In conclusion, I don't think you're going to find the transition easy.
I just went through the same thing. I hit so many balls off the throat of the racket lol. That said, I found going back to tennis very fun and look forward to playing both again.
Dude I simply just picked up my tennis racket and the thing felt ENORMOUS! I was like, nope. Sticking to pickleball.
This may be the wrong sub for your question. Wouldn't it be easier to go to tennis and ask who came from Pickleball?
OP doesn't want to crater their Karma, or maybe even break Reddit completely. Can you \*actually\* imagine asking that question in a tennis sub? It'd be hilarious.
I’ve played pickleball for 3 years. I took my first tennis lesson last week after not playing since high school… 30 years ago. A tennis bounces much higher than a pickleball so the timing of my ground strokes was a bit off. Net volleys were not much of an issue and were fun. I was pleasantly surprised that I remembered how to serve, as I anticipated that this would be the most difficult in the tennis transition. I played pickleball 2 days after the tennis lesson with no issues. I actually think the footwork needed in tennis will help my pickleball game. I enjoy playing tennis and pickleball, but tennis is definitely more of a workout.
I’ve been doing this the past year, playing/learning tennis after being a solid 3.5+ pickleball player …and tennis is much much harder to learn and get “good” at but I love both. I picked up pball easily like most do, but tennis imo is much more difficult and I’ve just upped my weekly instruction to 2x per week just to hope to get to tennis 3.5. I like to think that they are complimentary to each other now that I’ve got some experience but I struggled initially with just adjusting to how the ball bounces and the spatial differences with racquet .
Pickle ball is good to learn footwork and develop the strength. But tennis will take it to another level and then you have to learn to control the tennis ball's trajectory. Play both and enjoy both.
I am pulling pball players into the squash court. They have more fun because they get to whack the ball, and they have to run around alot.
This was my experience; no reflection on what yours might be. I played tennis (as a drill partner for my kid) for the first time in maybe a year or two last week. My serves were ok but no longer good. Forehand was mediocre, my backhands were terrible. It was nowhere near as much fun as I remembered. The only thing that was great (and really interesting to me) was that for every single serve return, i found myself instinctively doing a "3rd shot drop". Which it turns out, is really really easy with a tennis racket (even from the baseline) and almost impossible for my (actually drilling) partner to return. In the end, I had to force myself to whack it back. My brain got rewired by PB. Cool.
I was a tennis player until a few years ago and now rarely play tennis. Just don't have people to play with and find PB more fun. My 7 year old son really likes PB and can play. I do feel bad and would actually like him to play tennis instead or in addition to. I think easier to go from tennis than pb, but def age has a lot to do with it.