The LTA, the national governing body for tennis in Great Britain, has announced that Dunlop will become its Official Tennis & Padel Equipment Partner from January 2021. As Official Tennis & Padel Equipment Partner, Dunlop will be granted branding rights at the tournaments as well as at the LTA’s National Tennis Centre in Roehampton. The brand will also host retail and fan experience activity at the summer events and Padel tournaments. Other terms of the deal include rights to design, produce and sell tennis hardware products bearing the LTA and Partner mark. Dunlop will replace existi ..read more

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Venue Registration is the annual scheme for tennis and padel venues across Great Britain to become an LTA registered venue. We’re approaching the opening of the 2020/21 Venue Registration window, and wanted to remind you of the process in light of the positive changes to LTA Venue Registration. To ensure smooth delivery of the new streamlined system, this year the ‘go live’ date for Venue Registration is being staggered, initially opening to a small group of venues before gradually opening up further to existing and new venues. Renewal notification email A notification will be sent to each v ..read more

Job position: Padel Manager/Coach Salary: Competitive depending on qualifications and experience Part-time contract for off-court administration duties, plus self-employed services contract for course/coaching delivery East Gloucestershire Club is a thriving well established sports club which has 1400 members playing primarily Tennis and Squash, plus Ladies Hockey. We are now introducing Padel to the Club with three courts due to be completed in early 2021. These courts will be the first in the area and the Club sees this as an exciting opportunity to expand its facilities and consolidate its ..read more

LTA Padel Tour & GB Seniors Tour Unfortunately, in line with the Government and LTA Competition guidelines, we will not be permitted to run indoor competition for players aged 18 years and older in all Tier 2 and Tier 3 areas. As all LTA Padel competitions are planned within these areas it means that we have had to take the difficult decision to cancel all remaining LTA Padel Tour and GB Seniors events in 2020. We are very disappointed that we are having to cancel however unfortunately, after exploring alternative options, we are unable to allow these competitions to proceed. Planning for ..read more

Unfortunately the decision has been made to cancel the LTA Padel National League 2020 Finals, due to take place over the weekend of Saturday 31st October and Sunday 1st November at the National Tennis Centre. The decision has been made for several reasons including logistical challenges for players and teams. The NTC is an Elite Tennis bubble and therefore additional considerations have to be taken into account, making this event very difficult to run within the current restrictions. The health and safety of teams, players and staff is our top priority and there are just too many barriers in ..read more

As a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken by the UK government to control the outbreak, the LTA suspended all activity including the LTA Padel Tour on 16th March 2020. Following the LTA’s recent announcement, all graded padel competitions prior to 30th September 2020 have been cancelled, which include the following events:   LTA Padel Tour: Grade 2 (Middlesbrough Padel Club): March 27-29, 2020 Grade 1 (Stratford Padel Club): April 3-5,2020 Grade 1 (National Tennis Centre): May 1-3, 2020 Grade 2 (Guernsey Padel Club): May 22-24, 2020 Grade 3 (Maldon Padel Club ..read more

Dear padel players, coaches, venues, parents and fans! Last updated: August 17th, 2020. For those of you that haven’t seen the latest LTA update, I have adapted it as below for the purposes of our padel competitions: As you will have seen, the current situation with regards to sport and what activity is permitted is under constant review, and based on recent conversations with Government we can now begin to ease restrictions relating to competitions. Although certain tennis competitions will be kicking off in September, we have made the decision to not run LTA Padel approved competitions ..read more

West of Scotland Padel (WOSP) have made great use of the lockdown to ensure its members and visitors can resume playing padel in a much-improved environment. WOSP, Scotland’s only indoor padel club recently extended the lease with the landlords with slightly enhanced terms based on the club’s commitment to making improvements. This has now been achieved with the removal of overhead industrial pipe and aged heating system, which was replaced by a brand-new overhead heating system. Further to this new floodlighting was added to the two outer courts, meaning all three courts are fully floodlit by ..read more

Article by Michael Gradon, CEO of Game4Padel   The Thistle Club story Thistle Tennis Club in Edinburgh was for many years one of the leading clubs in the East of Scotland, producing players for County teams and beyond. The club is very much part of the local community and with 6 courts, had over 350 members. Gradually, however, the club found itself in a spiral of decline familiar to many clubs; facilities deteriorating, membership declining, income reducing, in what would ultimately have been a terminal spiral of decline. Membership declined as low as 60 adults. The commit ..read more