r/padel

I’ve tried playing tennis a few times in my life, and never found it that interesting. But from the moment I tried padel, I was hooked and I’ve been playing a few times a week for the past few years.

I also find watching professional padel so much more interesting , with the variety of shots, the x3 smashes, the out of court smash recoveries, the tactics, etc. Whereas it seems like 80% of the shots in tennis is just baseline to baseline ground strokes back and forth, which looks boring to me.

And yet tennis is a much bigger sport than padel in most of the world. What am I missing?

So, I was a very high level squash player for most of my life and I’m pretty much “professionally retired” now and have been recently playing padel.

But…what is it with the cord at the end of the grip?

Playing squash for over 30yrs I don’t think the racket came out of my hand once. Do more experienced players still use it or cut it off? Feels so wrong!

We were playing with some friends, and the ball went out over the top after a player hit it. Does it considered out or in? Cause we had a disagreement and couldn't really agree on it even after checking the rules.

I have been playing for about 1 year now and taking it more seriously the last 3 months, I really encourage everyone to record their matches and especially classes that you take to really maximise growing and progressing in the game

Looking at my matches is painful but I see a lot of mistakes from a third perspective that I wouldnt otherwise, I think filming myself looks like I play really bad cause all the padel content I see on screens are of pros so my level is at rock bottom compared to them

But would really appreciate some advice on my positioning maybe even technique, also an honest review on my level would be great too haha, be honest I can take it!

From looking at my matches I think Im a bit too close to the net which when they lob Im kind of hitting the ball behind me where the ball with rebound a lot, something else I noticed is that my volleys hit the ground too early making it easy for them to defend, they have to be deeper.

Im playing in Porto, Portugal btw

PS: im the guy in black playing with the guy in blue

Hi guys

This post is a mix of vent and advice and desperation... It's been 10 weeks since my ankle injury - a grade 2 sprained ankle. Probably the worst pain of my life so far... Anyway.

I would just like some advice or someone with similar experience....

So it's been 10 weeks and it still hurts after a certain angle of movement, I can't move it smoothly and fully, it's still a bit swollen, the bone is still sensitive even if the shoe is touching it.

Bit of context:

March 7: I fell playing padel. Went straight to the hospital, where they made an x-ray ( they said it's not broken ) they put me in a splint for 10 days. And told me not to put my weight on it, walk as less possible and only with walking sticks. 10 days later they told me to cut the cast off, and be back to normal.

Well obviously I couldn't. I still had to use walking sticks. I was in pain, my foot wasn't moving. And it was so swollen and purple.

On the 15th day I went back to the traumatología for the advised check up- it was very painful as she was checking and moving it around. Still swollen and everything.....

The doctor sent me to get an MRI - which I attended on day 17 after the injury. 2 days later got the results stating grade 2 sprained ankle. I got 20 sessions of magnetic therapy+ fisio.

Here is when the story goes downhill a bit. I couldn't start the rehab for 2 more weeks because of a travel that had to be done due to family stuff. The doctor said it is what it is, go but always use the walking sticks, ice it rest it as much possible. I tried. my best but obviously I wasn't a relaxing 2 weeks...

Anyway fast forward this 2 weeks of travel

There I was now roughly 5 weeks after the injury, still in pain, still swollen starting with magnetic therapy slowly loosing the walking sticks on short walks.

I got 5 sessions, it was okay, maybe a bit of improvement it was less swollen. Then they started with easy excercises... I lasted 3 sessions of that, then my ankle got worse almost as bad as it was before the week of magnetic therapy. Since then I only received magnetic therapy, 14 more sessionS - no excercises.

After the 20 session was done I went back to the traumatologist, she checked me, at this point it's still a bit swollen, can't move it until a certain angle and forcing it hurts. The bone and around the bone is still sensitive to touch and push. So she gave me another 20 sessions....

And here I am today on the 3rd day of the 2nd round of sessions. Still a bit swollen, but now I am able to walk on a flat and stable surface and if the shoe is not touching the bone. Stairs I can't take without pain.

It slowly improving, I am able to move it around more but still nothing compared to how it should be. After a certain angle to every direction it hurts, I have this pulling sensation , pretty sharp pain.

The traumatologist, the fisio guy , hell even chat gpt is telling me that it takes long time to heal, and that it's kind of normal that I still haven't recovered ..... time and patience..... But I'm running low on those after the past 10 weeks. I don't know .... Is it really normal that I still haven't recovered not even until the point to walk comfortably?

Anyone maybe with similar situation like this? Any advice? Anything.....

Thank you!

As someone still new to padel theres a lot of information to take in and within all that its very easy to take the wrong message and then use that when playing. Wether its rules, tactics, playstyle, attacking, defending or even communication. Im curious to understand from people here what thing they were doing thinking it was right only to realise later it was wrong to do. Even better if its something that really improved your game by doing so but theres always the possibility that cause its technically a new skill you have to relearn how to play.

One example for me is assuming i have to lob as much as i can when defending. Only recently after seeing Dani Hoyos video on defending did i realise that i should lob when its a easier ball to claim the net otherwise just return without a lob.

So the summer has started and I’ve already encountered many situations when newcomers with literally 0 game history join my team in competitive matches with rating ~2.0 against good players.
Since they do that in the last 24 hours before match starts I can’t quit.

Any good advice how to handle that mentally? 🥲

So many topics and highlights around smashes, and I love them too. But I was wondering what padel would look like with a rule that if the ball bounces outside of the court or back to your side, then it's called out? How would you try to play then?

Hi, I would love to build a padel court(s) in South West London. There is a local community centre which has two old tennis courts.

Do you think it would be possible to convert one of these tennis courts into two padel courts? What is the likelihood of that proposal getting accepted by the council and do you guys know how the rental/revenue sharing structure would work for something like this?

If anyone has experience doing something similar, I would appreciate any thoughts on this.

Thanks!

Does anyone have any idea how much it costs to install a padel court? Say 4 or 6 for this question. I already have a supplier ready but wanted an estimate on the cost of installing. Im in Australia if it matters

Right now for Argentina, the individuals with their spots locked in are:
- Tapia (left)
- Chingotto (right)
- Stupa (left)
- Augsburger (left)

So you got 4 left to take, with the most probable picks being Di Nenno, Libaak, Tello and Arce. Leaving out Chozas, Gonza Alfonso and Sanyo.

As for Spain, it should be:
- Galan (left)
- Lebron (right)
- Coello (right)
- Coki (left)
- Sanz (right)

You'd have 4 left to take and 2 of them have to play on the left, you have Garrido, Paquito, Goni and Leal as left sides, and for the right sides it's either Yanguas, Alonso or Guerrero battling for the 1 spot left...
Who would you take for the Spain team?