All Pádel articles
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News briefsSiux expanding abroad fast
Between last year and this first quarter of 2024, the pádel brand Siux has entered 35 countries – 18 of them in Africa and ten in Asia. So explains Alfonso Torrón, Brand Manager, who has spoken with Palco23. The list includes Siux’s first locations in Oceania. The brand entered Japan ...
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News briefsRayox foresees a Spanish pickleball boom
Two years ago, three Spaniards – Samuel Rodríguez, Daniel Rodríguez and Jordi Francés – founded a racquet factory in the US – in Waterbury, Connecticut, to be exact. They called it Rayox Sport. “Samuel told us from the US that pickleball was sweeping the market, and we decided to take ...
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News briefsSpanish pádel brand to give factory tours
StarVie is opening its factory to public tours, according to TradeSport. The factory is located in Azuqueca de Henares, Spain, and purported to be the largest of its kind in Europe. Visitors will be able to see the full production line, from design to finished product, and then test racquets ...
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News briefsNew pádel show in Portugal
Portugal will be getting its first international trade show for pádel this year. Expo Padel World is scheduled for June 29–30 at the MEO Arena in Lisbon. It will cover both B2B and B2C in the product, equipment, games, infrastructure and service sectors. It is otherwise built on three pillars: ...
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ArticleA bright future for pickleball in Spain?
The head of pickleball for the Catalunya Tennis Club’s Meeting Cup, Lluis Riba, wore a prognosticator’s cap for his recent chat with CMDsport, saying that 2027 will be the year of pickleball in Spain. Like pádel before it, he said, pickleball is in a position to save struggling tennis clubs, ...
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ArticleSales at AFP up 8%, though short of expectations
All for Padel (AFP) – the racquet company within AFP Group, which holds the Adidas license to design, manufacture and commercialize pádel racquets, accessories and courts – had been hoping to generate €34 million in sales for 2023. However, this target was revised down to €31 million in September, and ...
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News briefsA record year for professional pádel
Over the course of 2023 the International Padel Federation (FIP) – which conglomerates the Premier Padel, Cupra FIP Tour and FIP Promises circuits – held 160 tournaments for some 6,000 registered players. Of these 4,874 were professionals, hailing from 72 countries, and of the professionals 1,362 (28%) were women and ...
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News briefsNox under new ownership
GPF Partners has taken what appears to be a controlling stake in Nox, as CMDsport and others have reported. The pádel brand’s founder and CEO, Jesús Ballvé, will be remaining in place. Together with the new shareholder, Nox’s management has come up with a three-part plan: to consolidate its position ...
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News briefsDunlop moving into pickleball, looking forward to 2025 for pádel
Dunlop expects to introduce its first pickleball products in the second half of 2024, according to its CEO for Iberia, Richard Jackson, who has spoken with CMDsport. Although he declined to go into detail, Jackson did say that Dunlop’s “flagship product in tennis, pádel and squash is the ball, and ...
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ArticleA challenger rises in Spanish pádel e-tail
In its three years of operation, Padel Pro Shop has reached €10 million in annual sales, and its latest annual results for 2023 represent a year-on-year increase of 95 percent. For the new year, the online retailer’s objective is to achieve another increase in annual sales, this time of 60 ...
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News briefsFIP and FEP to collaborate in Spain
The International Padel Federation (FIP) and the Spanish Padel Federation (FEP) have joined forces to hold the FIP’s Platinum and Gold tournaments in Spain, to be organized in conjunction with the federations of the country’s autonomous regions. Platinum tournaments have a prize pool of €120,000, and Gold tournaments have a ...
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ArticleA year in review for padel
Source: Playtomic Global Padel Report 2023 Monitor Deloitte and Playtomic have released their second annual Global Pádel Report, available online, and the results are rosy. Some predictions The report considers that the post-Covid boom is over and that the “surge” in club and court constriction has continued. ...
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News briefsGolden Goose enters the pádel game
Golden Goose has entered the market for pádel, according to Women’s Wear Daily, Fashion Network and La Gazzetta dello Sport. The sneaker brand is putting its stamp on a pádel club called Atlante Arena, the fruit of a partnership with Demetrio Albertini and Lorenzo Alfieri, who founded the City Padel ...
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News briefsPadel players association complains to the FIP
The Professional Padel Association (PPA) has taken issue with the manner in which the International Padel Federation (FIP) is handling its tournaments. In a press release on its website, the PPA alleges “irregularities” in player draws and in the allotment of points and prize money. For instance, in the recent ...
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News briefsTournament woes in the pádel world
Through Setpoint Events, the World Padel Tour (WPT) has canceled the Buenos Aires Padel Master, reducing its November tournaments to two: the Areco Malmö Padel Open and the Skechers Mexico Padel Open. The stated reason was delinquent payments from “the local promotors.” This would be the organization of Argentine businessman ...
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ArticlePádel has a “courts” problem in the US
Eric Loftus discovered pádel as a business proposition when, in 2021, he traveled to Cologne and paid a visit to FSB, the self-described international trade show for public space, sports and leisure facilities. As he has now explained to The Padel Paper, “every single booth at that trade show was ...
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News briefsPádel brand invites you to rent before you buy
StarVie has introduced eight-day pre-purchase rentals for pádel racquets. The fee per rental is €22.90 and includes the costs of shipping to and from the customer and of insurance to cover any damage to the racquet. The racquet is delivered to and collected from whatever address the customer provides. If ...
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ArticleA1 Padel, unfazed, looks to US
Fabrice Pastor, himself a former professional player, remains optimistic about the world’s third-largest pádel league, A1 Padel – known until this past January as the APT Tour. He is optimistic in the face of the recent unification of the world’s top two leagues, World Padel Tour (WPT) and Premier Padel. ...
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News briefsA Miami conference for all racquet sports
A new racquet-sports conference is promising a three-day show with some 100 companies and 150 speakers on hand. RacquetX is scheduled to take place on March 24-26 – the middle weekend of the Miami Open – at the Miami Beach Convention Center. It is to cover tennis, pop tennis, squash, ...
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ArticleNew digs for a Spanish court manufacturer
AFP Courts is hastening to complete a project that – to the exclusion of raw-materials procurement – will focus its entire operation at a single site, according to CMDsport. Situated in Barcelona, the facility encompasses 10,500 square meters, with 3,500 going towards the factory and the remaining 7,000 towards a ...
