What does pickleball, the fad celebrity sport that Matthew Perry practiced and played for an hour on the morning of the day he died, look like?

As the days pass, more details are emerging about the hours leading up to Matthew Perry’s death on the afternoon of Saturday, October 28, at his home in Pacific Palsades, Los Angeles. He practiced pickleball that morning.

After the actor’s death, the media reported that it was his assistant who found his body in the jacuzzi of his residence after this person returned after several orders the actor gave him.

That morning, he went to pickleball practice, a sport he loved and played “every day,” according to a report in The Sun.

What is pickleball, the sport played by Matthew Perry?

According to a publication in the Cuore column of El Periódico magazine, it is a physical activity that is gaining more and more popularity among celebrities every day.

Celebrities such as Emma Watson, Selena Gómez, Kim Kardashian, Leonardo DiCaprio and Will Smith practice it. However, even though it is known among the famous, there will be those who do not know what it is about.

The mentioned media connects it with a physical activity that combines paddle tennis, tennis, table tennis and badminton, since there is a little bit of each of these disciplines.

Specifically, it’s practiced with medium-sized wooden paddles between ping pong and paddle tennis paddles, he notes. Cuoreand a field similar to that used in racket sports, but with certain specifications, is used as a stage.

For example, the court is rectangular in shape with a net in the middle, like tennis, but each part is divided into two parts, and in one of them there is an area known as “no volley.”

In addition, the pickleball ball is plastic and perforated unlike those used in tennis. When the first serve occurs, the ball moves from one side of the court to the other. If the ball comes into contact with any part of the player’s body, he or she loses a point, except for the hand holding the wooden paddle.

Ultimately, the pickleball game is won when one of the two teams scores eleven points.

On the day he died, Matthew Perry attended court for what would be his final pileball practice.

A person who was a playmate that day noticed that she was more tired than usual, host Billy Bush said in an Instagram post that he cited Sun. In the post, he called the sport Perry’s “greatest joy” lately.

“I spoke to the woman he was playing with this morning and every morning. “She’s in shock, she adored Matt … she said he was tired today and last week,” Bush said as a warning sign that went unnoticed. “He played for an hour and then went home,” added the woman.

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