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In this Aug. 12, 2017 photo, Natalie Alexander, left, celebrates with others after a game of pickle ball at Cresthaven Park in Decatur, Ill.Since Decatur Pickleball was founded in 2014, popularity of the sport has blossomed locally. While more than 100 people are associated with the group today. Created in the 1950s, the sport is a hybrid of tennis, badminton and pingpong that has become so popular in the United States, that it even has its own governing body, the United States of America Pickleball Association. (Clay Jackson/Herald & Review via AP)
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