Hot Springs Village has more than 250 pickleball members, with club registration through the POA.  Players participate in open play, leagues and tournaments.  Games are played at the Family Recreation Area courts located on DeSoto Boulevard in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas.  The facility consists of eight outdoor regulation pickleball courts with lights for night use. 

 

Pickleball is a sport played with a hard paddle and wiffleball.  The game combines elements of badminton, tennis, racquet ball and ping-pong, and is played on a badminton-sized court.

 

Click on this link for a youtube video of participants -- several from the Hot Springs Village Pickleball Club -- who played in a previous USA Pickleball Association Mid-South Regional Pickleball Tournament held in Baton Rouge. 

 

Here's the interview of Pickleball Ambassador Dennis Ramsdell during the 2012 Pickleball Open House.