This episode we do something different.I play devil's advocate and put forward a proposition. And I ask some experts from the industry to agree or argue.This first debate asks Soul Padel's Mark Hewlett, InstantPadel's Christoffer ...

Perhaps the only thing better than playing padel is playing padel in a beautiful and inspiring environment.Travelling for padel is becoming a big business so we decided to get a better understanding on the state of the sector and what th...

On the 2nd February 2025, in its freshman season of the Hexagon Cup, the Kru Padel by Taktika team took the trophy after the NextGen women's pair clinched the third match decider.This was a team that picked up some of the non-franchise p...

In just over a year, the Hexagon Cup has cemented its place as one of the most entertaining professional padel events in the world.The 2025 edition, its second, showcased growth across every metric: attendance, viewership, social media c...

New York is the City That Never Sleeps. Increasingly that is because residents are playing at padel in and around the Big Apple.After Miami, those monitoring the pick up of the world's fastest growing sport in America will always keep a ...

This episode, we get back to fundamentals: the 20 x 10.Courts have come a long way since the concrete walls that still exist in legacy padel markets. As the world opens up to, and embraces, the sport, the race to deliver courts is fierce...

THIS IS PART 2 OF OUR INTERVIEW WITH PREMIER PADELIn 2002, the first Premier Padel events appeared on the professional padel circuit, alongside the decade old World Padel Tour. By 2024, the World Padel Tour was no more, and Premier Padel...

In 2002, the first Premier Padel events appeared on the professional padel circuit, alongside the decade old World Padel Tour. By 2024, the World Padel Tour was no more, and Premier Padel was hosting 25 different events across 18 countries....

Episode 3 is another geographic focus episode: Africa.A continent that doesn't get enough attention in global conversations, Africa has some of the fastest growing economies in the world. Countries like Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa a...

Episode 2 of Season 2 focuses on the role and future of player associations in the rapidly developing world of professional padel world.So much is changing and evolving for players: the young Premier Padel tour, other tours and circuits...

We start Season 2 with a sleeping giant.Some will have preconceptions of Decathlon. Some will think they already know what Decathlon does vis-a-vis padel.I genuinely believe that most of our listeners will not be aware of the fu...

This week we tried something different. An experiment. We played Devil's Advocate.What if we gave two expert observers of the sports business industry a chance to opine on the sport of padel: both the participation piece and the profess...

Anyone monitoring padel worldwide is monitoring the US. And anyone doing that, knows that Miami is where the momentum started.Miami is now home to about 80 courts, making up one third of all US courts. And more clubs are springing up al...

Modern sports now rely on third party content creators to grow recognition, drive fan engagement and entertain. Those who made a name for themselves early and who found a winning formula, have secured reputations, followings and relationships w...

The world of sport is increasingly waking up not only to the importance of women participants and players, but the need to meet them on their own terms.In the rush to launch, build and roll out across the padel ecosystem, it can become ...

Difficult to argue against the idea that internationally, padel is riding a wave of discovery, growth and enthusiasm. Some call that a hype cycle.But what comes with that? What characterises a hype cycle? And what are the positives that...

Argentina is not a country or market to take lightly. It is one of the biggest markets in padel globally and one with a proud and long history in the sport.So this week, we brought in two absolute heavyweights of the country to talk us ...

One of the areas outside the Spanish-speaking homelands that has really embraced padel in recent years is the Middle East.Brought to Dubai by Sheikh Hamdan, the sport has flourished in the region to the point where now in 2024, the Qata...

This year saw the launch of the first editions of both RacquetX in Miami, and then Padel World Summit in Malaga. Why did both founders (Robyn Duda and Alex Ponsetti respectively) decide that the time was right, now?Both talk about how p...

This last June, IMG unveiled their entry into the padel space, by announcing men's Number 1 Arturo Coello as their first client and bringing on board industry heavyweights Auguste Hernan and Daniel Dios to drive the vertical.It is a sei...

Asia is the largest and most populous continent in the world. It has the fastest growing consumer class globally. It has rich pockets of racket sport pedigree.So the conditions for padel's proliferation are perfect. But there have been ...

Described as "today's oil", data is critical in so many aspects of modern life.In sport, match data has become increasingly crucial in a range of different areas: player and coaching performance analysis, driving fan insight and engagem...

Rocket Padel's Founder Sebastian Gordon and MATCHi's CCO Andreas Karlsson witnessed and were part of Sweden's incredible relationship with padel over the last decade or so.In today's All The Angles episode, together with Hexagon Cup's A...

This week, Alex Inglot is joined by another Hexagon Cup founder, Jose Calvo Sotelo, and together they track how professional padel has undergone a revolution and how that has impacted the players and the agents that look after them.Anto...

Alex Inglot and Hexagon Cup founder Enrique Buenaventura return for the first full-length episode of All The Angles, the business of padel podcast, with an exclusive conversation about the 2024 edition of the Playtomic Global Padel Report.<...