Canada is home to an estimated 60,000 pickleball players. … Four women compete in a friendly game of pickleball, a popular racquet sport that combines elements of tennis, badminton and ping pong.
Keeping this in consideration, how popular is pickleball in Canada?
Today, pickleball has been dubbed the fastest-growing sport in Canada. Membership in Pickleball Canada has grown from 5,000 to 22,000 players in just five years, and a pre-pandemic Ipsos poll put the number of Canadians playing pickleball at 350,000.
In this way, who brought pickleball to Canada? In 2007, Marcel Lemieux and his wife, Louise Barette brought Pickleball into the province of Quebec. Two years later, in 2009, they created the Quebec Pickleball Federation.