Talk:Paddle tennis

Early comments

Ed: Removed previous redirect. Paddle tennis IS NOT table tennis/ping pong. Paddle tennis is played in a smaller version of a tennis court, with a solid paddle like table tennis and a ball that does not bounce very well. It's primarily played in Hawaii and on (small) cruise ships (since that's often the largest court they can support).

Someone should write more on this; I just felt like correcting the incorrect link.

Here's an external source supporting what I said: http://www.paddletennis.biz/

I removed the sentence that mentioned that the serve must be served underhanded. This isn't in the rules. Moreover, the sport is player throughout the northeast and midwestern United States with a particular emphasis in sports and country clubs.

Lochdale The serve in Paddle Tennis must be underhanded http://www.vikingathletics.com/support/faqs/

Paddle tennis is not platform tennis, the ball is a regular tennis ball (so it bounces well) and it is not primarly played in Hawaii. Javiery

I think a good link to clarify what paddle tennis, platform tennis, padel and all the different paddle games are is:

http://www.paddle-tennis.com/what_is_paddle_tennis.htm

My opinion is that different games have appeared in different parts of the planet as an evolution from tennis. There is some confusion with the names because none of them seems to be popular enough to impose a standard name. Maybe Padel is the most international one, since an International federation exists, with 16 national federations affiliated (http://www.padelfip.com/federaciones.html), but it is true that padel is primarily played in Argentina and Spain TrraKo

Why would paddle and platform be merged? It's like merging polo and water polo together. They are very different with very different rules. Ok, so my polo/water polo analogy is garbage, but still, these should not be merged. Celtic1

It would be like merging Squash and Racquetball. Bad idea because they are different sports. Likely, the argument for merging the two stems from players mistakenly referring to Platform Tennis as "Paddle Tennis". Why merge to support a grammatical error? 134.215.202.244 23:20, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Paddle vs. Platform, oh my!

I'm afraid I am adding to the confusion that exists here.....i thought i was clearing up a misconception on heater but now it looks like paddle tennis is truly not platform tennis. i admit we all call the game "paddle tennis" in our league but perhaps the more correct term is platform tennis after all? from a quick googling paddle tennis is truly unique and in fact the heated reference i "corrected" was probably something paddle tennis doesn't even have since the pictures i see of the sport are not on aluminum platforms!!

i'm thinking this whole page needs scrapping!

sorry folks. i think i'll go play PLATFORM tennis now (but will continue referring to it as just "paddle") —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Imdennycrane (talk • contribs) 15:32, 26 March 2007 (UTC).

Whoever most recently edited this article (Mar 31) has essentially changed it to an article about Platform Tennis instead of Paddle Tennis. It should be reverted to its prior state, although I do not know how to do this as I am not very experienced with Wikipedia. -JH —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.23.104.72 (talk) 13:37, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Back to being about Paddle Tennis

As of 6/26/08 I am going to try my hand at wikipedia to make this page actually about paddle tennis after the abortive attempt by someone to write on platform tennis. -JH —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.23.104.72 (talk) 16:19, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Paddle and Padel

Reading Paddle tennis and padel tennis I find difficult to find any differences. Aren't Padel and Paddle the same thing? Cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.35.59.143 (talk) 13:11, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Bad link

In the "External links" section, the very first one to the United States Paddle Tennis Association actually goes to what looks like a Korean website for fighting baldness or for hair care.

I can't find an actual website for the USPTA, but there is a possible Facebook page.

I'll let someone with more skill do a verify and link-address change. 2600:8800:786:A300:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 06:07, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Title Change

The title of the article needs to change from POP tennis to POP Tennis. {{subst:Requested move ...}}. POP Tennis (talk) 00:28, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

@POP Tennis: Probably not. Please read Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters. Also Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, your username looks suspicious and may be blocked in the future, particularly if you edit on this topic. Commander Keane (talk) 05:59, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi Kane,

I created the wiki account for the purpose to edit this page in particular. I am employed on a full time basis to support the growth, adoption and governance of POP Tennis globally. POP Tennis (talk) 06:28, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

@POP Tennis well see Wikipedia:Orgname. I think it is also a violation of WMF:Terms of Use, search for "paid editing". You at least need to disclose on your userpage and refrain from editing any related articles. Commander Keane (talk) 07:20, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 29 October 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Reading Beans, Duke of Rivia 06:53, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

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POP tennis → Paddle tennis – Original name of the sport. POP seems to refer to the new association of the sport. I am also concerned this name is part of a commercial hijack of the article. See section directly above and my revert. Commander Keane (talk) 06:15, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Support: I agree with the above fears. It seems clear that the editor "POP Tennis", being paid to "support the... governance of POP Tennis globally", has conflicts of interest. In addition it feels a bit like suggesting we rename Australian rules football to AFL, or more pertinently Cricket to ICC. A sport's governing body is not the sport itself. Bayonet-lightbulb (talk) 07:43, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

• Support per above. Hameltion (talk | contribs) 17:26, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
• Weak support: The article seems primarily based on low-quality sources, dead links, and self-interested commercial links. Searching for information about this sport doesn't lead to much. I share the concern about a commercial enterprise trying to take over the page with their brand promotion. If the article is to exist, it should be about the non-branded game. No one has the right to declare a non-branded sport to have "former" status and say their branded product is now the "current" version of the game, especially when no independent non-commercial sourcing is apparent for the branded variant. But is the topic really notable? —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 20:04, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.