In tonight’s Pickleball Night in America (click here), played on a moist surface, I charted the percentage of times (when dinking) the team starting a gunfight won the point.
Across four rally-scoring matches, I observed 51 points where a team (while dinking) started a gunfight. Of those instances, the point was won 26 times (51%).
Granted, these results only apply to tonight.
But there is evidence that starting a gunfight (which we are generally taught not to do) results in a 50/50 proposition.
Pickleball Analytics! 