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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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ArticleEverysport Group reports declining revenue, Media division shows muscle
Stockholm-based Everysport Group AB, divided into the Everysport Media and Every Padel businesses, said in its year-end financial report that it had conducted a strategic review of the padel business to return to long-term growth as quickly as possible. This resulted in a net positive impact of SEK 10 million ...
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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 briefsHead’s pádel team has a new international tour manager
Head has promoted Jordi Vives from marketing and promotion manager, his post for the last two years, to international tour manager for pádel. He will now be working with Thomas Bischof, director of pro players. Vives hails from Barcelona but studied in the U.S., where he also established a background ...
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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 briefsAll for Padel not quite all pádel
CEO José Luís Sicre announced at this month’s seventh edition of International Padel Days in Barcelona that All For Padel is looking to make good on its slogan, “Not everything’s padel,” especially when it comes to international expansion. According to CMDsport, the Adidas retail licensee is looking to move into ...
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News briefsLeDap appoints new CEO
LeDap, an international padel group founded in 2021 that operates a network of padel clubs in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Poland, Spain, Austria, the UAE, Germany and the U.K., has appointed Eno Polo as the group’s new CEO, effective Sept. 5. Polo has many years of experience in the consumer ...
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Qatar will host World Padel Championship for second year in a row
The World Padel Championship this year for both men and women will once again be held in Qatar. In 2021, the country hosted the Middle East and Asia’s first padel world championship after it was held in Europe and Latin America. The venue for the 2022 event will once again ...
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News briefsAn update on padel in Italy
The number of padel facilities and courts in Italy continues to grow. According to data from Osservatorio Mr Padel Paddle, 479 new facilities and 1,219 courts have been set up since Jan. 1, bringing the total to 2,323 facilities and 5,908 courts nationwide. The increase has been 26 percent for ...
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Wilson partners with Italy Major Premier Padel
Wilson Sporting Goods is partnering with Italy Major Premier Padel as an official sponsor of the event. The final is scheduled to take place on May 29 at Rome’s Foro Italico sports complex. Wilson is the “Official Equipment” of the tournament.
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News briefsNew Swedish women’s padel apparel brand launched
Source: Peachy The motto of the new padel apparel brand Peachy is “from court to cocktail, smashing both in style and in serve” and is designed to encourage women to find a good balance between performance and play. The founders of the new Swedish brand include artist ...
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