By William Earl
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©Apple TV/Courtesy Everett Collection Pickleball has exploded in popularity in the last decade as a variation of tennis that’s easier on bodies and simpler to pick up for people who want to try something new. When comedy writer Sean Clements heard about a local turf war involving the low-impact sport, his brain started clicking.
“A friend of mine who was involved in the L.A. Tennis Center was trying to get them to add more pickleball courts,” he says. “They only had one, and he wanted to expand, and was talking about all of these contentious meetings and how passionate — and sort of psychotic — everyone was on both sides of it. And I thought like, ‘OK, well, here’s a good backdrop and central conflict.’”
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