Padel Guides
Padel keeps pulling in players who assumed their competitive sport days were behind them. Walk into a club on a weekday morning and a good share of the courts are taken by people in their fifties, sixties, and beyond. There...
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Chipped edges are the most common damage a padel racket picks up. Not cracks. Not a broken face. Just scuffed, worn corners along the top of the frame where the racket keeps meeting things it was never meant to hit....
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Two new racket sports have taken over sports halls and converted car parks across the UK in the last few years, and from a distance they look almost identical. Small court, solid paddle, players crowding the net. Get closer and...
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Your first few padel sessions come with a hidden second challenge: the language. Someone shouts bandeja, your partner calls a chiquita, and the pair on the next court are arguing about a golden point. None of it gets explained. You...
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Nobody hands you a rulebook on your first padel session that covers the social side of things. The official rules tell you about lets and faults, but they do not cover what to do when the ball rolls onto the...
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