Pasquale joined Head, one of the main padel brands in the world, even before Padel started to make waves. 

He is an unbelievably strong squash player, who is the current Swiss and German over 35 champion, and rightly so, he loves to compete!

Whether it is in business or on a squash or padel court!

If you want to hear how he spoke without languages during a lunch with Bela, or what is Arturo Coello's specs, tune in!

 

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The Padel Pod is an amazing weekly podcast which is talking about Premier Padel and the main players! Gonz and Hugo are just passionate about padel like no one else, and it helps a lot that both of them are bilingual (Spanish and English). 

It was great to get to know them better and we chatted away about the new pairs and what they think which new pair will be the best.

 

 

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One of the guys who I definitely wanted to get on the podcast was Joan Suasi, who is the commercial director for the Rafa Nadal Academy!

He is a humble, down to Earth guy, who knows a lot about how to run an academy, while the pressure was always going to be massive, when you are directing in some capacity the goat's academy!

They are putting a lot of focus on the padel side of things, and they have some exciting plans ahead!

Today is the last but one episode on the Padel Summit Week series, and tomorrow is the grand finale! From next week we are back to normal! Enjoy this episode!

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Bill is one of those guys, who has been there from the beginning!

We instantly connected even before the Summit, and we definitely wanted to sit down and have a chat about what he has been doing in padel for the last 30+ years!

He told me what he has experienced and why he thinks padel is going in the right direction!

He even called himself a Tyrannosaurus Rex of padel, which I think isn't suiting, but hey, he definitely knows what he is doing.

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As promised, Mauri Andrini came on the pod and spoke about his journey within padel!

Mauri is an ex professional player who played with the likes of Sanyo Gutierrez or Fernando Belasteguin (Bela) the goat, himself.

He is an absolutely amazing coach, who is building something in English, which hasn't been done before!

Amazing guy with an amazing agenda!

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Manu Martin definitely needs no introduction! The goat of padel tutoring and really approachable, great guy!

I caught him at the Padel Summit, where sooo much is happening!

We talk about his past, his present and his future!

A must listen for padel enthusiasts!

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Loads of background noise, different atmosphere, quicker format!

Live interviews are in, and who better to start it off with than with Ben Nichols, everyone's favorite PR person in the padel industry!

Partly he is the reason I'm in this field, so we had a great chat and he was lovely to reach out about a live interview in his hotel's lobby!

Innovation in the different areas, what is happening with the US and the UK padel scene, and is pickleball relatable to padel?

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Ben is doing something, which no one in the UK has done before and organizing The Padel Directory!

One thing is that he instantly became a padel enthusiast, but he is such a great ambassador of the sport, that it was a privilege to have him on the show!

As a sport fanatic and now converted padel freak, he has great insight on what is going on in the British padel and now the idea of The Padel Directory is not just an idea, but a reality.

Starting on the 1st of June, please watch all the spaces!

This week was really special! 

Started off by speaking to Tom Farquharson, who definitely doesn't need any introduction, while he is one of those few guys who everyone identifies with padel! We met on the Padel Aid in the Padel Hub in Slough as well and shared a few games in the process.

Tom is a junior Wimbledon doubles champion so we got into a lot of tennis, and the grind of the tour and also on how padel just got him an absolute new love!

He is ecstatic doing The Padel School with his brother and also getting to the highest echelons of padel, with being in the selection for Team GB! 

Great treat for the weekend, have a listen!

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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 results just keep on coming!

In my opinion, this was one of the most easy chats I had! 

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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Ray has extensive knowledge of how to run a business, so he thought what better way to actually jump into a new business as to get into padel court building!

He has a real passion for the game and his courts at Padel Alba certainly don't disappoint! 

But how did a guy from Latvia become a court manufacturer owner in Alicante, Spain!

Listen to the episode to figure it out!

 

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This week's guest was a person who knows more about padel than almost anyone!

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 for every padel lover!

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 you should go to Uni, you might meet your business pal later!

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 padel and pickleball (yes, pickleball), could be played on one court!

Great chat, worth a listen!

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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Mr UK Padel on the podcast, ladies and gentlemen!

Toby knows, plays, builds, sells everything padel! A true renaissance man of the UK padel scene, he is part of the LTA Padel coaching, knows everything about the gear, and also builds padel courts around to make this sport accessible for all!

And first and foremost a great sport, who has been amazing with his knowledge on the pod! Go and have a listen!

 

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Friendly Fire!

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!

This week, I had the pleasure to talk to Margarita Logvinova, who is behind the amazing cause Padel for Ukraine, and raising awareness on the war in the Ukraine. I really enjoyed talking to her and was wondering how she could stay so positive throughout the chat, but she is such a revelation and while this is a really hard topic, it was a great chat! We get to know what Padel for Ukraine is, and how Ale Galan and Andriy Shevchenko is connected to the cause!

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 Federation!

Really good insight on how padel is evolving in central Europe!

Houman Ashrafzadeh is an Iranian-Swedish entrepreneur, who came up with the brilliant idea to put central London on the padel map!

He is part owner of the Urban Greens healthy food restaurants and has massive ambitions with Padium!

Great chat and play some padel in Padium!

This week was special, while Jared is my good mate from university!

He became a really successful padel coach and now solely focuses on that part of coaching! The converted tennis coach!

He got his first world ranking points just a few weeks back in FIP London! Good chat about what we would do to get padel going in the UK even more!

Ben is a super keen start up brand founder!

Do check Farrellys World out, while they are exceptional in what they are doing.

He has been really insightful and told me his/their padel story!

This week I thought it would be useful to talk about the pair changes and what has happened lately in the padel world. 

Yanguas-Stupaczuk, Di Nenno-Lebron, Paquito-Cardona and Alex Ruiz-Garrido are the new pairs I talk about in a bit more depth and also about the fastest final of the season and one of the best matches, which ended in a weird handshake, oh well, we all know Lebron now, don't we? 

Please enjoy and let me know if you would like to hear more about me blabbing...

 

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David is the founder of Padel London, which is a great organization with a 360 approach to padel in London.

He gave a general overview on the situation of padel in London, on what Padel London is doing exactly and what he thinks padel should do to become an Olympic sport and also one of the main sports in the UK.

This was a real fun chat with Nico Larossa who's the country manager of MATCHi. We talk about the WPT, what is Superpibes, and in general, how and why you should use MATCHi! Fellow padel enthusiast content!

This episode is my talking about the big players in padel.

From Coello to Ortega, from Galan to Fede Chingotto. Who uses what brand and what's their WPT rankings.

Coello and Tapia lost the first time this year to the Superpibes and it needed to be recorded in a special episode!

This episode is about the pure love for padel.

I had the privilege to talk to Bradley Howard, who is the ambassador for the British Triathlon, has a presence on social media and is absolutely hooked about padel.

We cover our experiences as new players to the game and we try to be as infectious as possible! Please do enjoy

Special episode with Fran Villaverde about gear, the pro world, pairings and what's the difference between pro and commercial padel rackets?

This is the first episode of hopefully many with the Padel Company's ceo, Fran, who has inside knowledge on the world of padel!

Every feedback is appreciated, please have a listen and share if you could!

On popular demand, everyone's favorite, Barry Coffey is back!

He is talking about the Six Nations, all the effort needed to be put in and how Ireland faired.

We also mentioned his weapon of choice and that we are quite excited about what's happening to padel around us every minute!

Adidaddy at his finest!

Rosco is a pioneer! From his tennis background, he fell in love with padel in Spain, and has been deeply and madly in love with the game ever since.

He is one of the shareholders of We Are Padel, which is part of the LeDap Group, and has been successfully opening padel-centers left, right and center.

I had the privilege to talk openly with him and he gave a good insight of the mind of a padel provider!

Andy is a real retail guru. 

He worked for Head for over a decade and now he is the UK country manager for Tennis-Point/Padel-Point.

Really interesting insight on how padel is evolving in retail and if there is more to come. How are padel players choosing their gear, what is the best seller and is offline or online bigger in the sport.

This week we go to the deep end. 

A lot of nerdy content from Fran (Francisco) Villaverde, who grew up with padel. Started to play when he was really young and carried on ever since.

He is the CEO of The Padel Company, which is carrying the likes of Varlion, RS and Volt, and distributing them all over the UK.

His knowledge is immense and it has been a great chat for sure. 

He shared a lot of information about his past, his present and his future!

This week it's a bit different again.

Get behind the scenes and get to know Norbi and myself's back stories.

We are planning to do some content going forwards, while what are the odds, that Padel has two Hungarian hosts on two separate podcasts!

Please do enjoy and let us know if you've liked it!

Tito Moreno has been there since the beginning of padel in the US!

As an enthusiastic kid he got to play his first competitive match against Agustin Tapia and he didn't disappoint! He came up with the brilliant full turnkey service company, AMET International and still trains every day to become one of the players who will represent the USA in the 2032 Olympics in padel! Really interesting chat and definitely worth a listen to the longest episode there has been in the podcast's tenure!

 

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In this special episode I have taken the wheel and speaking about current court openings, a FIP Rise Tour event with Chris Warren and the new project of Padel Shift, which has opened two by two courts in the Cotswolds.

A bit different than the usual, but hopefully as enjoyable!

Sam is a brilliant player, who learnt a lot of his trade in Spain. 

After leaving his home in Essex, played in the UAE and moved to Spain for several years. Only covid made him move back to England, where he evolved into the UK's second best player. Since then he has been making the most of his professional padel player life, with traveling, working hard to achieve his wildest dreams and being one of the household names in padel.

The episode in short is a pro's everyday life. 

Kristina Clement is a true padel enthusiast!

As a  player she has played 5 world championship in total with France and Germany as she has 2 passports, and soon she will feature in the 'small Olympics', the European Games. As a coach and padel club developer (her first club close to Monaco and then she developed a club in Birmingham where she trained her Padel Baby alias Tia Norton, UK's number 1, who at the time only had 2 months of padel.

She is now the export manager of the prestigious padel brand Nox and has been building the brand ever since.

She is a great chat and her knowledge about the sport is second to none!

He has been one of the most well known faces around the padel courts for decades now.

He is originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina and been world number 1 in padel for 4 consecutive years. Has been playing competitively for 22 years and won literally everything to be won in padel. 

As a previous professional tennis player, it has been a fairly seemless transition for him to get into professional padel.

After hanging up his racket, he became International Director of Development for the World Padel Tour. The growth could be seen from Mars and when he knew WPT was in safe hands, he went on to become Chief Padel Officer of the Ledap Group. 

Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Poland, Austria, Spain, the UK, Germany and the UAE,

operating more than 130 padel clubs, e-commerce, a booking platform, a padel court manufacturer and operates as an organiser of padel events.

 

In his role as Chief Padel Officer of LeDap, Hernan and the team are striving to make Padel available to all, to expand the sport by providing infrastructure and inspiration for all types of Padel players.