The Catalonian Tennis Federation (FCT) will be introducing a new license exclusive to pickleball on Oct. 1, according to CMDsport.
This follows the introduction in April of a dual license covering both pickleball and tennis. The dual license costs €64.15 a year for adults and €19 a year for players 19 and younger. The new, exclusive license will be cost less for adults, at €41 a year, but the same for the adolescents.
So far the FCT has issued about 85 pickleball licenses in all, but the head of its pickleball committee, Almudena Lázaro, estimates that Catalonia has about 2,000 players of the sport. There are also 28 federated clubs – of which one, Sabadell Pickleball Club, forgoes tennis altogether – and 94 courts.
The FCT incorporated pickleball back in February, and remarks in its announcement (in Catalan) that by then the number of players in Spain had tripled over a few years to 20,000.
