The Padel Podcast
As the fastest growing sport in the world, padel needs a new platform to talk with all the key players. As I am a true racketsport enthusiast, hopefully I can provide a lot of insight through, and this podcast will be a weekly must listen to a lot of people!
Episodes
Nowadays it feels like Nikhil is everywhere!
He is part of the best tutoring platform of The Padel School, he became the ambassador for Padel India, he is number 3 in the GB rankings and just established the R3 Agency, which is giving expert management to the British and International padel players!
And he is just a humble lovely guy!
I caught him in Alicante where he is training for the moment for the FIP Rise tournaments and the ...
George Modler is exactly what UK padel needs.
He is young, enthusiastic and full of ideas! He is the founder of the Golden Point Padel Event series, which are tournaments for beginners to intermediate players and he also came up alongside his partner Ben Harris to establish The Padel Directory!
He is part of the 'Bristol Series' of us, Bristolians who fell in love with padel! Great lad, great chat, please do enjoy!
Andres recognized the niche in the United States to do an all-in-one management and booking software for racket sports a few years ago!
Since then it became the main platform for racket sports players across quite a few countries!
Their main focus is the club owner and they are doing everything they can to make the experience flawless!
We touch on pickleball, tennis, padel and how's the current situation of padel in the US.
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An ex coach, ex club manager, club owner and now plays pivotal roles in the Malaga Padel Summit (21-23 of May) and the International Padel Cluster!
He has great knowledge and insight in on several topics, like what padel needs to do to get into the Olympics and what to expect on this great convention which will be held in Malaga!
More than worth a listen ...
Roxy is padel royalty.
She has played a pivotal role in the boom of the Bristol padel scene and she is now the Head of Padel of Rocket Padel, which is the most ambitious court provider of the UK with Swedish roots.
She is an amazing squash player and getting significantly better in padel as well!
Super fun personality with a lot of valuable insight!
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Geoff and Ryan from Novor wanted to come on the show quite a few months ago when their brand idea was more of an idea than anything else. Then (wisely), they said it might be a bit too early, but now since their actual launch, it was the right time to tell me about how to build up a completely new brand from scratch!
We talk about their product, what padel means to them and how this idea came about!
This is why...
Padel holidays? Sign me up!
What does it take for a Swedish entrepreneur to build his own little Padel paradise in the island of Solta in Croatia! Well, a lot of planning, energy, money and will!
Tom is a padel enthusiast who thought the best way to make people fall in love with the sport even more is to build his holiday getaway called Padel Solta!
Exciting podcast as always and it's more than worth a listen!
This week I had Christoffer Granfelt, the founder of InstantPadel on the podcast, who makes padel accessible for the masses.
It is really important for him to point out that he wants padel to grow from grassroots up to the highest level. He is an entrepreneur from Sweden with a clear vision and his company, InstantPadel (which is in the transition of changing their name, we will explain why), came up with a brilliant idea that pade...
Philip Pereira is a real treat for you, podcast listeners!
He has been in padel longer than almost anyone I spoke to so far, and was great fun to have a conversation with! We talk about his past within the publishing industry and how much he can provide for the padel world and especially The Padel Summit in Malaga!
Please go and enjoy!
The GOAT is back! Pablo Garcia joined me to talk about sponsor changes in the off-season and what he thinks will happen this year on the women's tour and how the sponsor changes will plan out!
He is an absolute gem of a person! Please take a listen!
Almost pro player, Marcell Urvolgyi's journey in padel has been a whirlwind!
The talented 18 year old has been in the top5 of the Hungarian professional rankings for quite a while and travelled Europe to represent Hungary!
Great chat, really insightful on how padel came about in his life!
Have a listen and don't forget to subscribe on any platform you use!
The first episode which features a partnership of the best kind!
James Ash and Tim Foster are the founding members of the Padel Project UK, which is planning to place a 1000 courts across the UK. They are not just really enthusiastic padel people, but great fun to talk to as well! Please enjoy, and don't forget to subscribe/follow the show!
The goat of padel journalism is on the pod this week!
We talk about a lot of interesting topics, how the IOC works, why pickleball is so popular in the US and most importantly what needs to happen to padel to become one of the main sports in the UK as well as in the world.
Also, what needs to change to get a top100 player outside the 'Latin' world.
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Gonzalo is a true padelholic, who I paired up not just as a podcast guest, but also on the padel court and we do make a good pair!
He is the founder of the great Instagram and Youtube page, PadelDrive and he has been playing padel for 15 years, which in padelyears is like 625.
Have a listen and enjoy!
This week's guest is Ciaran Skinner, who is a Business Development Manager for Skylab. Skylab is giving an amazing tool to padel players, who would like to analyze their game. Have a listen to see on what they could offer to the starters up to the professionals!
Well, this guy really doesn't need a lot of introduction!
Pablo Garcia is the founder of el4Set, which in Padel is the biggest content creating platform! The back story is amazing and you will get to know the person behind the ideas! He has worked for a padel racket manufacturer as well as Real Madrid, but wanted to follow his own dreams! Amazing stuff, and worth checking out!
Eric is the VP of Northeast Padel, which is a Padel court building company, focusing on the North East of the US.
He is an enthusiastic racket sport player, and he is absolutely sold on the idea, that padel can challenge pickleball in the States and make its mark there as well!
Fun episode, free flowing stuff, have a listen!
Jack Binstead, actor, comedian and padel pro? He played Rem Dogg in Bad Education and now he is aiming to be world number 1 in adaptive padel.
It has been a hell of a chat, with a lot of joking, a lot of being serious, so it is a must listen!
It was really important for me to get an overview of my home country's place in the world of padel, and who better to talk to than the president of the Federation, Peter Kerekes.
He has been playing since 2012, and with a professional tennis background, he had all the tools not just to be great at padel, but to establish 'Premier Padel' the major court provider in Hungary as well as to be the founding member of the Hungarian Padel ...
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