All Padel articles – Page 2
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News briefsSTIGA Sports partners with top padel player
From the end of 2025 and for at least three years, Swedish Douglas Rutgersson will swing with the Cybershape padel racquet of STIGA.
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News briefsNox lost some altitude in FY23
The brand has managed to keep revenues above €25 million.
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News briefsTennis back on top for Dunlop Spain in FY24
With its inventory glut, padel has lost a step.
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News briefsSurrey to get Europe’s biggest pickleball and padel club
The councillors of Waverley Borough, in the British county of Surrey, have approved plans for the conversion of a vacant, 57,600-square-foot warehouse into Europe’s largest club for pickleball and padel, according to The Padel Paper. The HOPP, as the club will be called, was conceived by Sally Grace and Andre ...
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ArticleSpain’s amateur padel league plans to span the world
The plan is to within two years to quintuple the number of players and double the number of participating clubs.
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News briefsDecathlon opens its first pro shop for padel
Decathlon has opened its first pro shop for padel in Majadahonda, on the outskirts of Madrid.
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ArticleAll For Padel keen on the US
The Adidas license holder for padel will be launching a pickleball collection.
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News briefsViento Padel raises €180 million through crowdfunding
The Italian start-up capitalizes on the booming padel trend.
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ArticlePlaytomic’s 2023 in review for pádel
Playtomic and Strategy&, a division of the PwC accountancy and consultancy, have released the 2024 edition of the Global Padel Report – a 50-page presentation filled with charts and other visuals.
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News briefsMejorSet enters Germany, Denmark
MejorSet, the designer, manufacturer and installer of pádel courts, has struck a distribution deal with Best World Padel to expand into Germany and Denmark.
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ArticleNew management at Premier Padel
Premier Padel’s owner, Qatar Sports Investments (QSI), has modified the league’s management. The changes were announced to some 200 players at the BNL Italy Major, which ran from June 15 to 23 in Rome. QSI has made David Serrahima, Managing Director of the sports marketing agency Octogon, the league’s General ...
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News briefsPro pádel gains an association for coaches
The Professional Padel Players Coaches Association is making its debut at Premier Padel’s BNL Italy Major, running from June 15 to 23 in Rome. It has gathered 80 members so far, along with a president, Francisco Javier “Pozanco” Sánchez, a vice president, Jorge Bellmont, and a secretary, Ángel González. Its ...
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News briefsPadel Galis founder invests in Auro System
Francisco Pérez Galisteo, founder and CEO of Padel Galis, has bought a majority stake in Auro System, according to the International Padel Cluster (CIP). Auro produces an attachment for pádel and tennis racquets that both helps corrects a player’s grip and dampens the racquet’s vibration. Padel Galis is a maker ...
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News briefsSpanish firm introduces photochromic pádel glasses
Bikkoa has launched new pádel glasses, a photochromic version of the Goat model, designed for both indoor and outdoor play – and to withstand the impact of a ball traveling at 180km/h. The chief selling point here is the lenses, which are photochromic through and through in their polycarbonate material ...
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ArticlePádel players now number 30 million worldwide
The International Padel Federation (FIP) has released the 2024 edition of its World Padel Report, which has pegged the number of pádel players worldwide at 30 million and the proportion of women among them at 40 percent. More than half of the players are in Europe, with another quarter or ...
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News briefsBullpadel hits the UK’s e-tail mainstream
The distributor MRH Sport has struck a deal to sell Bullpadel pádel racquets through John Lewis. We learn this from The Padel Paper, according to which John Lewis is the first major department store in the UK to stock pádel racquets for online sale. Some 18 Bullpadel racquets are now ...
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ArticleA look at racquet sports in the US
RacquetX and marketing agency LaneTerralever (LT) published a report titled Who’s on the Court: A Profile of Today’s Racquet Sports Player, available online, to lay out the results of a survey they conducted in February of this year. The sample was 506 people in the US who have played “at ...
