Indoor Pickleball Facility to open this week in London, Ont. [Video]

Smash Pickleball is the region’s only indoor facility dedicated specifically to the sport.

Construction of the nine-court, south London complex is nearly complete, and it’s set to open Saturday, Oct. 19.

“Smash was brought together from the love of the sport and unmet need in the industry,” says Ed Sater, a Londoner who owns the business.

“We have so many pickleball players and not enough pickleball facilities.”

Located in the former Bad Boy building on Wharncliffe Road, the concept was to bring the community together to eat, drink, play pickleball and socialize.

“The best thing that we wanted to do here was to bring everyone together and an opportunity to go up onto the mezzanine,” says Sater.

“It is a 360-degree view of every court in here, so you get to see all the pickleball play.”A rendering of the future mezzanine and social club at Smash Pickleball in London, …