Have you ever tried or seen padel tennis? You might have spotted it on holiday while in Spain or Portugal or Italy or Sweden… and the list of other destinations with a burgeoning padel presence is starting to lengthen. For those of you who have started playing,...
With the 2022 Padel World Championships in Dubai about to kick off this week, it’s clear that padel tennis continues its explosive growth around the globe. The big question mark in the professional sport is being played out in an ongoing rumpus between several...
With padel tennis blossoming all around the world (and now accelerating at a rate of knots in the UK), people are picking up a bat and discovering padel tennis at an impressive clip. New players come to padel tennis through a variety of ways, each having some...
Last week, I read how Pickleball is “the fastest growing sport” in the US, where nearly 5 million people now play it [source NYT]. Having been brought up in Europe, as a kid, I always had the impression that sports in the US were going to be different, if...
Some of you will be aware of my uber-keen love of padel tennis. Some, hopefully, will even have been bitten by the love of padel as well. If you’ve not heard of padel tennis and are interested in a game that is fun, energising and exciting to play, then you need...
I’m a massive fan of one of the fastest growing sports in the world: padel tennis. No, it’s not paddle misspelled. It’s not platform tennis nor paddle tennis. It’s not pickle ball, either. It’s one of the most elastic sports in the world...