In the game of pickleball, if you can stand the heat, you need to stay out of the kitchen.
Tennis Channel’s coverage of pickleball, which is one of the fastest-growing sports in the country, has been growing as well, with sometimes entire Sunday-afternoon lineups devoted to the Pro Pickleball Association (PPA) and its rapid racket-and-ball sport.
Now it will include a star turn.
The channel said Tuesday that it would be providing coverage of celebrity exhibition matches live on October 13 at 8 p.m. featuring former Dallas sports greats Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki, as well as Texan Jordan Spieth, world No. 1 golfer and long-time Dallas resident Scottie Scheffler, and tennis serving sensation John Isner, also a Dallas resident.
That star lineup is Texas-heavy for a reason: The exhibition is being held during the PPA Tour Round Up in Dallas.
Tennis Channel will also be covering the Round Up October 16 at 1 p.m. ■
