courtgrab
/ˈkɔːtˌɡræb/nounVerified NewThe conversion of existing public courts — usually tennis — to a trendier sport, and the turf war that follows.
Pickleball's growth has run straight into tennis's incumbency: lines get painted over, noise complaints get filed, and councils referee a conflict between two sports that both feel ancestral. The courtgrab is urban land politics played with paddles.
Etym. — court + grab: a land grab played out inside painted lines.
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