For other sports often called "paddleball", see Paddleball (sport)

Paddleball (sport)

Paddle ball is a one-person toy played with an attached ball and paddle.Paddleball may also refer to:*Beach tennis, also known as "beach paddle ball" or "beach paddleball"*Matkot, also known as "Beach paddleball" or "kadima"*One wall paddleball...

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Racquetball is a racquet sport

Racquet sport

Racquet sports are those where players use racquets to hit a ball or other object.-List of racquet sports:* Badminton* Ball badminton* Basque pelota** Frontenis** Jai alai* Beach tennis** Matkot* Bilbocatch* Frescoball* Lacrosse...

 played with a hollow rubber

Rubber

Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, is an elastomer that was originally derived from latex, a milky colloid produced by some plants. The plants would be ‘tapped’, that is, an incision made into the bark of the tree and the sticky, milk colored latex sap collected and refined...

 ball

Ball

A ball is a round, usually spherical but sometimes ovoid, object with various uses. It is used in ball games, where the play of the game follows the state of the ball as it is hit, kicked or thrown by players. Balls can also be used for simpler activities, such as catch, marbles and juggling...

 in an indoor or outdoor court. Joe Sobek is credited with inventing the modern sport of racquetball in 1950 (the outdoor, one-wall game goes back to at least 1910 in N.Y.C.), adding a stringed racquet to paddleball

Four wall paddleball

Four-wall paddleball, or simply "paddleball" is a popular court sport in the upper Midwest, particularly in Michigan and Wisconsin, on the West Coast of the U.S., particularly in Southern California, and in the Memphis, Tennessee, area...

 in order to increase velocity and control. Unlike most racquet sports, such as tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 and badminton

Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

, there is no net to hit the ball over, and unlike squash

Squash (sport)

Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...

 no tin (out of bounds area at the bottom of front wall) to hit the ball above.