Padel Guides
You lose to a good left-hander before you work out what happened. The rallies feel normal enough. The scoreline does not. Most club players have faced maybe five or six lefties in their whole padel life. Every lefty has spent...
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Most people buy their first padel bag about six months after they buy their first racket. Before that it is a gym holdall, or a tote from the supermarket, or nothing at all and the racket rides around loose in...
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The score reaches 40-40, somebody shouts golden point, and half the court looks confused. That happens most weeks at club level in the UK, usually because one pair learned padel under tournament rules and the other pair learned it on...
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There is a shot in padel that has no equivalent in any other racket sport. You smash, the ball bounces, it climbs the back glass, and it keeps going until it clears the side fence and lands somewhere near the...
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Padel is easy to play and oddly hard to watch. Nothing shows up on terrestrial TV on a Sunday afternoon, and searching for a live match tends to land you on three sites that all want a subscription before they...
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