COOLTOP AT THE 2023 YEPPOON PICKLEBALL FESTIVAL

Location: Yeppoon Pickleball & Tennis Complex, Queensland, Australia

Installer: Queensland Sports Courts

Surface: CoolTop, Nordic Blue centres, Ice Blue surround.

Date installed: July 2023

COOLTOP AT THE 2023 YEPPOON PICKLEBALL FESTIVAL

This year’s Yeppoon Pickleball Festival was hosted at the complex between the 14^th and the 23^rd of July, welcoming over 100 players from across Australia and NZ for 10 days of fun, competitions, coaching and tournament play.

Despite being played in July, Yeppoon still frequently has temperatures above 30^ºC (86^ºF).  Prior to the tournament, CoolTop was installed on their feature acrylic courts to reduce the surface temperature (via solar reflectance), with the goal of assisting in overall player comfort.

THE PROJECT:

The 6 feature courts to the right of the marquees were surfaced with CoolTop in Nordic and Ice Blue colors.

The 8 courts to the left were surfaced with standard Sea Blue acrylic surrounds and CoolTop Nordic Blue centres.

The court surface temperatures shown below were recorded on Friday 21^st of July, at 1.30pm – with the ambient temperature of 30^ºC (86^ºF):

Existing Sea Blue: 52^ºC (125.6^ºF); 

Nordic Blue: 38.1^ºC (100.6^ºF);

Ice Blue: 34.4^ºC (93.9^ºF).

“Having played pickleball outdoors on many surfaces and now experiencing playing on a surface that has reflective pigments, i feel the change, it takes the heat off me so i can put it into my play.”

– Kel Rasmussen, Former Director – Pickeball Association Australia