Völkl exits pádel market

Völkl

Völkl is getting out of the pádel market and refocusing on tennis, as the German brand’s sales director for racquet sports in Spain, Héctor García, told CMDsport. The reversal, he observes, is enabling Völkl to evade some of pádel’s present-day turmoil. “This is not the time to enter” that market.

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