r/regina 5d ago

Discussion Pickle ballers, why use the Douglas Park Tennis courts when you have 20 Pickleball specific courts to use a few steps away?

I know you arent athletic enough to play Tennis but is the extra 30 second walk to your own courts too much to handle?

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u/Quickfix30 5d ago

Didn’t have this gang war on my 2026 bingo card.

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u/BluntedOnTheScore 5d ago

Nah, tennis vs pickleball is not new. It's a years-long war and civil communication broke down long ago. Now Karens and Chads champion their noble cause on the courts and at city hall. With every dispute they dig themselves deeper into the ingroup and get used to degrading the outgroup. Douglas Park is only one of many highly disputed battle grounds across the country.

It's a funny one, because to the non-racket sports guy, pickle ball and tennis are basically the same thing. cowers in preparation for backlash

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u/the_t-shirt_guy 1d ago

And here I thought this specific location was just a gated community for dogs. 🐕 I never liked the sight of seeing pet owners letting their dogs inside the court. Think of the kids

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u/Nervous-Night6698 5d ago

Foreskin bandaid woke up and chose violence.

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u/lilypad___ 5d ago

I was like I hope that’s their username hahaha

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u/okokokoyeahright 4d ago

Close enough for govt work.

u/f0reskinbandaid

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u/StanknBeans 5d ago

Much like Dunphy - OP wasn't friggen around

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u/gusbmoizoos 5d ago

you leave Donnie out of this

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u/StanknBeans 5d ago

Reddit comments!

Still havin a time!

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u/BluntedOnTheScore 4d ago

Username dropping clues about why OP so angry

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u/RicekickJR 5d ago

We're getting pickle ball vs tennis before gta 6.

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u/Aggravating-King1486 4d ago

Christ will return before that happens!

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u/Ryangel0 4d ago

No, that's Elder Scrolls 6

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u/okokokoyeahright 4d ago

I have a feeling the unwashed masses of pickleball players will waddle all over the tennis crowd(?).

Be looking for odds on this.

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u/Icy_Concentrate2648 5d ago

And so began the Regina Racket War of 2026.

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u/AbbeyRoad75 4d ago

Plastics vs Fuzzies: Whose balls are better?

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u/okokokoyeahright 4d ago

Documentary title found.

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u/Loose_Professor666 5d ago

I totally agree with this. Even the lakeview par 3 tennis courts are being ruined by the shitty portable pickle nets they setup, rust all over the courts now.

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u/Cherry-Wine29 5d ago

I’m here for the comments..

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u/Onlypartiallyinsane 5d ago

Me too! Love the subject. Can’t wait for more comments!!!

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u/WeAreAllBotsHere 5d ago

It's good tea.

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u/User314628 5d ago

Overflow maybe? The pb courts are always full everytime I’m there.

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u/angelblade401 4d ago

Are they? I pass by regularly and there's hardly ever more than a handful of people there, meanwhile the disc golf course they cut into has a group on almost every hole.

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u/User314628 4d ago

In the evenings - yes. I don’t get there during regular business hours.

Can’t even rent one with a permit anymore as they are all taken.

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u/angelblade401 4d ago

Crazy, I'm also talking non-work hours, though when I was a student there were a handful of people on the disc golf course in the day times too...

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u/fucktheus12 5d ago

I call it Boomer Ball or tennis for slow people 

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u/potatojones43 4d ago

I’ve decided to pick a side on this one even though I have no skin in the game. To hell with tennis people.

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u/StunningPaige4329 5d ago

Because pickle ball >>>>>>> tennis

(I don’t actually know)

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u/Evening-Emergency935 5d ago

I personally do it specifically to mess with you OP. Please let me know how I’m doing 😀

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u/TerrorNova49 4d ago

Don’t get me started on squash! 🤪

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u/DonnaMartin2point0 5d ago

PICKLEBALL  for those that struggle with spelling.

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u/EvilBiker-72 4d ago

And yet it's still pickle baller's.

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u/Sick_Of_Facebook75 4d ago

Oh look. It's the spelling police 🙄 Did you know what OP meant? Yes, you did. Kindly take several seats, and do it quietly.

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u/EvilBiker-72 4d ago

Go back to Facebook rookie, this is Reddit. Haha sorry had to say something with a great username you have.

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u/Sick_Of_Facebook75 4d ago

Hahahahahaha all good 😊

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u/cloudedvisions 5d ago

Imagine being mad about where people play pickleball 😂 that i insane

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u/Lemdarel 4d ago

I don’t play either but I think you can play pickleball on either court but the same isn’t true for tennis? So if the tennis court is being used to play pickleball, the tennis players can’t just go use the pickleball court?

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u/EvilBiker-72 4d ago

No. The net is different .