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[–] Lumun@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's not just a population map. It's also a map of the western and eastern blocs. Tennis is pretty bourgeois. East Germany is super defined. Although I find the Czech Republic and the Balearic islands interesting. Lots of British tourists want lots of courts?

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

Germany and East Germany being defined however very much reflect the population density in Germany however.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Tennis was big in Finland during the yuppie times afaik. Now you see abandoned tennis courts pretty often.

Same happening for padel hah

Also wealth within these blocs. The south of England is super blue even though it doesn’t have a necessarily high population density apart from London. It’s just it’s far more bourgeois and aristoratic than the north.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Is Spain just that much less densely populated or do they just not care for tennis as much as the rest of western Europe? Both?

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Spain is mostly very sparsely populated outside of big cities.

But of course this isn't a map of tennis courts, it's a map of tennis courts that are entered in OpenStreetMap.

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

That's a good point, OpenStreetMap coverage could simply be worse in more rural parts of Eastern Europe

[–] SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In Spain, a lot of if tennis courts have been replaced with padel courts (more profitable and trendy).

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is that what they call pickleball there?

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 6 points 2 months ago

no, different sports.

[–] ECB@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

It's a different sport that originated in Mexico but has been expanding fast throughout South America and Europe.

I think Pickleball is more of a US thing

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I also started wondering if this was just another population density map

[–] EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

The rich can afford to make their tennis courts out of uranium while the poor have to play on hydrogen.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Yes but it is tennis or real tennis

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

tennis court density, you say. so the darkest blue dots are hard courts and the paler ones are clay courts?

[–] loomy@lemy.lol 1 points 2 months ago

poor iceland

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Now do pickleball!