HOW MANY PICKLEBALL COURTS FIT ON A TENNIS COURT?

If you still want to play tennis on your court, you should consider adding pickleball lines to a tennis court. This is also known as “blended lines”. The tennis court lines will remain pickleball and pickleball court lines can be added in a different color. Generally, the tennis net will remain and you can use portable net systems for pickleball. There are a few common variations of blended pickleball lines, but most of them consist of adding 2 pickleball courts, per full tennis court.

You can use the pickleball court surface coatings as your blended line paint. Usually, a line paint color in the same family of the surface coatings will work well. Just lighten or darken it by adding white line paint or black Acrylic Resurfacer. For simplicity, black Acrylic Resurfacer can also be used to produce black blended lines for pickleball.

What Is the Difference Between A Pickleball Court And A Tennis Court?
The dimensions of a tennis court are much larger than the pickleball court dimensions; giving you extra space. This means you can easily set up 4 pickleball courts per tennis court.

However, some of the internal dimensions on the court are very close to those of a pickleball court.

So, if you’re only in need of one pickleball court, with a little ingenuity, you can very easily mark out your pickleball lines so they meet the basic rules using a few vinyl strips. Again, you can use cones or other items you may have lying around such as water bottles but I don’t recommend it due to safety.

The Service Area

The service area in tennis, if you consider both service boxes together, is the space starting at the net and that goes about halfway back to the baseline. You’ll find that the tennis court’s service area is almost the same size and dimension as a pickleball court.

From the service line on one side of the net to the service line on the other side on a tennis court is 42 feet. Whereas a pickleball court is 44 feet in length. That’s a two-foot difference in the total length of the court measured from the pickleball baseline.

So, in essence, you have a one-foot difference on each side of the net. We suggest that you accept that as is. No need to add an additional foot, as it will unnecessarily complicate the markings. You will naturally have to modify your game a little but it will likely not be all that noticeable to you.

But for all intents and purposes, you’ll have a perfect setup for your pickleball game. Playing using the tennis court service lines as the baseline could even help your game when you transition to playing on a regulation pickleball court because when you hit your shots you will be used to playing them within a slightly shorter distance.

So, when you ultimately play on the slightly longer, regulation pickleball court, you already have an extra safety margin built into their game.