Padel SA were asked to do a radio interview on The Jet Set Breakfast show on SAfm. The show’s lovely host Michelle Constant and Padel SA founder Steven Cox had a quick but insightful chat about South Africa’s newest, and dare we say, most enjoyable sport! Hit PLAY to listen to the interview. https://padelsouthafrica.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/WHAT_IS_PADEL.mp3 The post Padel Makes it’s Radio Debut appeared first on Padel South Africa ..read more

The Olympics are the biggest stage for many a sport and the ultimate dream for thousands of athletes. Every four years an individual or team has the honour of competing for the ultimate prize in their sporting discipline, an Olympic gold medal. There are now 33 sports, up from 28 in 2016, that are contested at the games. The five new sports included for Tokyo 2021 are baseball, karate, sport climbing, skateboarding, and surfing. The decision for adding new sports is up to the organising committee of the next host city to propose the sports it feels should be included, a vote is then carried o ..read more

Premier Padel will be hosting its first padel tournament on African soil later this year. In what is a massive statement of intent by the new padel tour to truly take the sport global, they have selected Cario, Egypt as the host for their 3rd P1 event following events in Mendoza, Argentina and Madrid, Spain. This is not the first time Africa has hosted an international tour event, however, as the World Padel Tour held an exhibition event in Egypt in 2019 while the APT tour held a their Cape Town Masters in South Africa earlier this year. With the sport currently booming in both the north ..read more

Premier Padel is the new official world circuit of padel that is governed by the International Federation of Padel (FIP), supported by the Professional Padel Association (PPA) and Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) – today announced a new broadcast deal with SuperSport which will broadcast the tour to 54 countries in sub-Saharan Africa!   They will start their media coverage with the Ooredoo Qatar Major 2022, which starts on March 28 in Doha. This is one of a handful of new broadcast deals that have been signed in recent weeks, truly making padel a globally televised sport to match i ..read more

Padel has made the jump from land to sea, not on a floating barge or with waterproof equipment but on a superyacht! The world-renowned luxury yacht builders Abeking & Rasmussen launched the 98.4m (322*), Aviva, in 2017, and as far we know it is the only padel court on any vessel in the world. She is also one of the biggest, sitting at number 36 in the list of the World’s Largest Yachts. The gym and padel court are not only for the owner and his guests but are also open to the crew. to keep fit and active while at sea. On a boat of this size, you could probably have a real padel tournament ..read more

The first padel shop in South Africa is now open for business! The aptly named The Padel Shop (now Padel SA) has been in the works for a long time with the hope of being open by Christmas, and with a lot of hard work and many sleepless nights managed to do so. The Padel Shop is an online store based in Cape Town, with delivery service country-wide. We currently stock some of the world’s biggest brands and are working on stocking even more. Some may say it is a bit premature considering there only being a handful of courts, but as others say, “the early bird catches the worm”! W ..read more

Some of the world’s biggest football superstars play padel. Some have only recently jumped on the padel bandwagon while others have been long-time enthusiasts of the game. Of the newer players, you have the likes of Neymar, Mohamed Salah, John Terry, and Zlatan Ibrahimović (who has even started a padel franchise in Sweden) and of the older padel players, you have the likes of Carles Puyol and Iker Casillas. There have even been padel courts built at some of the world’s biggest football clubs with Manchester City and Barcelona a ..read more

The first padel court in South Africa was launched at Val De Vie in Paarl on Saturday 2 November 2019, the same day the Springboks were playing in the rugby World Cup final in Japan. It was a scorching spring’s day to kick off an action-packed sports day, with padel taking centre stage as the new kid on the block. Many people were in attendance, including a world champion himself, Mr Ryk Neetling. Mr Neetling is now Marketing Director at Val De Vie and was the brainchild behind bringing padel to the estate. Padel SA was there to lend a hand and share our knowledge of the game, helping to get ..read more