The Telegraph, UK’s largest daily newspaper, reports that Padel tennis’s fun and games could get people on the court again:
Imagine a perspex cube, 20 metres by 10. Inside there is a tennis net, and four players dressed in Day-Glo outfits and baseball caps. They are wielding short bats with plastic centres, and a ball zips around, caroming off the walls as they leap, smash and lob.
This is padel tennis, a sport that remains barely known in Britain, but which has over-run Mediterranean Europe like a virus. There are estimated to be 23,000 courts in Spain alone.
The prestigious Lew Hoad Tennis Club in Mijas – a centre named after the two-time Wimbledon champion – has ripped up its so-called “King Court” and replaced it with four padel courts.
“Padel is just so accessible,” says Steve Riley, whose company Will To Win… Click here to read the rest of the article by The Telegraph‘s tennis correspondent, Simon Briggs.