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Origin Story: Net Dropped from 60″ Badminton Height to 36″

ByChief October 24, 2026

Aylex notes pickleball’s first net wasn’t today’s height. In 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Joel Pritchard and Bill Bell grabbed ping-pong paddles and a plastic ball on a badminton court — the net started at badminton height, 60 inches.

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