by Nicholas Duck
One of the world's fastest-growing sports has arrived in Gippsland as the pickleball craze sweeps the area.
Local sessions for the game have popped up across Drouin and now Trafalgar, which will see its own dedicated pickleball club kick off next week.
Pickleball is a racquet/paddle sport that resembles tennis on a smaller scale as two or four players use a paddle to hit a hollow plastic ball over a net until one side can't get it back into play.

Once an incredibly niche sport, it has seen a significant uptake in re