New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- Early in July, to promote the latest season of their show, the cast of Prime Video India series Panchayat chose to swap the rustic settings of their village, Phulera, for a colourful pickleball court. Sticking to the theme, the actors too turned up in pickleball core: Neena Gupta in a matching white shirt and pleated skirt layered with a green sleeveless sweater vest; Jeetendra Kumar in a white shirt, cardigan and track pants; and Sanvikaa, in a blue mini dress. It was proof enough that pickleball fashion is a "thing" now.

A racquet sport that was created in 1965 by three dads, Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell, and Barney McCallum in Bainbridge Island, Washington, pickleball, that can be described as a tennis-badminton-tabl...