All Pádel articles – Page 3
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News briefsPádel high over Manhattan’s 57th Street
Emerging from a field of more than 20 firms, Padelgest has won the contract to build a pádel court inside the so-called Steinway Tower, according to CMDsport. This building, the world’s slenderest skyscraper by the ratio of its base to its height (1:23), forms part of a complex called 111 ...
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News briefsFor now, chain in Madrid to expand only online
The watchwords for this year at Deportes Halcón are recovery and stability. CMDsport has spoken with its director of finance and marketing, Sandra Benito, according to whom sales for first-quarter 2023 at the four-store chain in Madrid are more or less flat. “The market,” she says, “is not easy.” Suppliers ...
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ArticleAmid racquet glut, courts maintain sales at Drop Shot
Marcelo Cascabelo, of the brand Drop Shot, believes in the continued expansion of pádel but warns of a difficult year. The chief executive revealed to CMDsport that his company’s revenues for 2022 were up by 120 percent year-on-year, amounting to €20 million, but that the figure for first-quarter 2023 is ...
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News briefsPádel brands should expect a reckoning, says Head exec
Head Spain’s revenues rose by 46 percent last year to the record level of €27 million. Racquet sales accounted for some 70 percent of the total, and within that preponderance, pádel outsold tennis three to one. But this has not translated directly into retail sales. According to Head Spain’s business ...
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News briefsThe women sign up for Premier Padel
Premier Padel’s president, Luigi Carraro, appears to be as good as his word. As we reported last week, the league has been promising to bring women into its tournaments over the course of the current season. Indeed, Carraro said, the only reason the women weren’t playing already in the Ooredoo ...
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News briefsLed Projects has a new distributor
Salisport France has become the exclusive distributor for France and Belgium of Led Projects’ court-illumination products for both tennis and pádel. Founded as recently as 2021, Salisport says it is the top company in France for court maintenance. Led Projects, meanwhile, has been the official supplier of illumination for ...
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News briefsStarvie’s new head of sales
Pádel brand Starvie has hired José Antonio Galán Matamoros to be its sales director. He is joining the company from Milwaukee Tool, where he held the same title for a year. He has served in similar capacities at the sport, e-sport and entertainment agency Vanquish, the workwear company Industrial Starter, ...
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News briefsSpanish bike-rental company has big plans
Rookfy, a bicycle-rental platform in Spain, enjoyed a satisfactory debut last year, according to chief technology officer Santiago Alonso, who spoke with CMDsport. The young company has recently added the retailer Escapa to its marketplace and joined the Spanish Association of Brands and Bicycles (Ambe). In an interview with Joanseguidor.com, ...
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ArticlePPA reviewing legal options against WPT
The Professional Padel Association (PPA) is none too happy over the plans of the World Padel Tour (WPT) for the current year. The union has released a nine-point statement alleging breach of player contracts and describing the tour’s “unilateral” decisions as being “of a gravity without comparison, not only in ...
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News briefsPádel takes the lead in Catalonia
The battle of racquet sports is hot in Catalonia, according to CMDsport. Back in 2019, for the first time, the ranks of the Catalonian Pádel Federation swelled past those of the Catalonian Tennis Federation. Tennis surged again thereafter but has since fallen behind again. For the past two years the ...
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News briefsBabolat increasingly focusing on padel
In an interview with French online sport publication Sportbuzzbusiness.fr, Babolat’s sales director, Olivier Plancon, said that the company now expects padel to become nearly as relevant for the company as tennis, which remains its main sales driver. Padel currently accounts for 25 percent of Babolat’s business in Europe, and 20 ...
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ArticleStarvie and Asics join forces, comment on pádel
As the Spanish press reports, racquet manufacturer Starvie has struck a sponsorship deal with Asics for its roster of professional pádel players, who as of this month will be competing in the Japanese brand’s apparel and shoes. Among these players are Bea González, Coki Nieto and Javi Garrido. Quoted in ...
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News briefsValencian firm aligns with PPA
Already the official court provider for the World Padel Tour (WPT), Padel Galis has struck a deal to become the first official supplier of courts and grass to the Professional Padel Association (PPA), according to CMDsport. The deal’s terms will give professional players a say in the official court’s design. ...
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ArticleA second consecutive record year at Head Spain
Head Spain broke in 2022 the record it set in 2021 for annual sales, which increased by 27 percent from €18.43 to €27 million. As CEO Jochen Schirmer explained to CMDsport, the most recent full year saw equipment purchases rise in tandem with the practice of sports. Moreover, the end ...
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News briefsL.A. gets first pro pádel franchise
EEP Capital, which describes itself as the first venture-capital fund devoted to the sport, has purchased the first pádel franchise in Los Angeles. The team will be playing within the Pro Padel League, the professional league in the U.S. EEP Capital is tied to and shares management with EE Padel ...
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News briefsCIP to attend this month’s Padel Trend Expo
The International Pádel Cluster (CIP) will be exhibiting at Padel Trend Expo Milan, as will many of its associated brands: Babolat, Bullpadel, Enebe, Gimpadel, Head, Just Ten, Kelme, Mejorset, Mondo, Okatent, Paddeo, Padel Courts Deluxe, Padel Galis, Playtomic, Set, Softee, Starvie, Stop Sudor, Vibor-A and Wilson. Scheduled for Jan. 13-15, ...
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News briefsEuropean Games admit pádel
Pádel is angling for a spot on the list of Olympic sports, which now includes skateboarding, trampoline and even breaking (break dancing). The president of the International Padel Federation (FIP), Luigi Carraro, seems to have taken the sport a step closer to this goal. Back in July 2019, he appealed ...
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News briefsCIP’s ISPO presentation optimistic on pádel
Pádel, it appears, continues to thrive. At the freshly concluded ISPO Munich 2022 the Clúster Internacional del Pádel (CIP) reported that pádel-racquet sales increased by nearly 72 percent year-on-year in the second quarter, according to Diffusion Sport. This was, however, down from the more than 85 percent rise of the ...
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News briefsWilson to begin selling pádel courts
Having joined forces with Padel Galis, Wilson Sporting Goods will begin selling pádel courts next month, according to CMDsport. Wilson Court, as the product is called, will, in time, be selling worldwide but is focused for now on the U.S. Padel Galis, a Spanish company that manufactures official courts for ...
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New pádel tournament in Egypt
Premier Padel has struck a multiyear deal with the New Giza Sports Club, CA Sports Marketing and the Egyptian Padel Federation to establish the first P1 pádel tournament in Egypt – and, indeed, in all of Africa. NEWGIZA Premier Padel is scheduled for Oct. 24-30 of this year at the ...
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