At present there are only two courts in the UK.
One is a glass walled court at the Harbour Club in Fulham (020 7751 9443) which is a private members gym and leisure centre so unfortunately non-members can't just turn up and play.
The other one is a concrete walled court at the Rye Lawn Tennis and Squash Club (01797 223151).
Filed under: History
Padel was born in 1974 when Alfonso de Hohenlohe travelled to Mexico to visit his friend Enrique Corcuera who had just devised a new game that was based largely on tennis but was played with wooden bats, and utilised a slightly smaller court due to restrictions of space.
The biggest departure from tennis is that the 20m x 10m court at Corcuera's house, which is shown below, was enclosed by walls up to 3m high, and the rules of the game permit the ball to be returned to the opponents court after hitting the wall.
As he was so interested in the sport, Alfonso de Hohenlohe started to tweak some of the rules of the game and the details and measurements of the court itself, and then when he returned to Spain he constructed the first two courts at the Marbella Club. And thus Padel began to spread its roots across Spain and Europe.
Filed under: Padel UK
The objective of this blog is to provide a forum for spreading news and opinion on what is happening in the world of Padel Tennis. In particular we hope that this will provide you the space to find out more about what is happening to help bring padel to the UK.
