Padel’s growth phase is largely behind it, so what comes next? Sport Business Padel hasn’t taken off in the UK by accident. It has grown quickly because it arrived at exactly the right moment. Like many sports, it benefited from Covid-19. At a time when people were looking for ways to stay active and social, padel offered something simple: it was easy to pick up, played in small [...]
Padel firm founder calls for operators to lower court rental costs Sport Business The founder of a major padel tournament organiser has called upon court owners to “be responsible” and lower the price of rental rates for the popular sport. The boom of padel in recent years has seen demand to play outweigh the supply of courts, despite the United Kingdom this year passing the 1,000 court threshold. [...]
