Local pickleball scene welcomes players of all skill levels

Monday, June 27, 2022 ~ Updated 10:24 PM

While living in Georgia for more than 30 years, Julie Straus, her husband and five children played tennis in tournaments and for fun together. When Straus moved to Cape Girardeau in 2016, she couldn’t find the tennis community she was hoping for. In 2017, while reading the newspaper one day, she came across a story about pickleball, a game that combines tennis, badminton and ping pong, and decided to go to the Osage Centre to try it out. After playing for a couple of hours, she paid her dues to join the SEMO Pickleball Club and has never looked back.

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