- The Padel Company presents this interesting article collected in the pages of The Telegraph, a prestigious publication in which they wonder if the discipline with the highest growth worldwide will also be consolidated in the British Isles.
Padel World Press .- According to a study carried out, it is estimated that the number of paddle tennis players in the UK has increased by 76% in the last year and, to give just a few examples, there are tracks in places as far apart as Bury (North of England) o Bangor, in Northern Ireland.
As they pointed out in their pages, when presenting the paddle to fans who do not yet know, from The Telegraph they highlighted: "It is played with a kind of oversized ping-pong on a miniature tennis court surrounded of walls like those of squash. It is currently considered the fastest growing sport in the world. "
Tom Murray, representative of the British Padel, said: "He has conquered the whole of Spain" ... And it is a country that he knows very well since, during his adolescence, he trained in Valencia to become a professional tennis player. It should be remembered that his roommate at that time was Marat Safin, who years later became number 1 in the ATP Rankings.
In his statements, he added: “When I left Spain on 1999, tennis was only surpassed in popularity by football. When I returned, in 2007, I discovered that none of my friends were already playing tennis. All of them had begun to practice paddle.
Surprised by that fact: «At first I thought that was meaningless but, as soon as I tried it, I understood why everyone was crazy about paddle tennis. It is very social. It is played between four people, the track is much smaller, so it is much easier to chat between points ».
Very popular sport in Spain and Argentina, Murray struggles to make him also recognized in the United Kingdom and hopes to achieve it very soon: «We are seeing a great expansion of paddle tennis in Europe in the last two years. 90 tracks have been opened in Sweden and there were hardly any 18 months ago. For its part, the famous former tennis player Henri Laconte has opened 12 clubs in France ».
In that sense, he said that it is interesting to see how much of the expansion of paddle tennis has been due to tennis players: «Nadal, Djokovic, the Murrays ... They all play paddle tennis. On the other hand, Jamie Murray has just collaborated in the opening of a court near his house in Bridge of Allan, so now he can play when he is in Scotland and London.
Great news that continues to confirm that the development and growth of padel worldwide is an unstoppable phenomenon, which has already been launched.
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