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 centr...
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!
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!
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 br...
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 Pad...
Barry Coffey, AdiDaddy is a retired business who is now living in the South of France. He is originally from Dublin, Ireland, where he was an Irish National Badminton champion and a member of the national team. He discovered padel in 2015 and has been an unashamed addict ever since. He is competing in international level and is the president of the Irish Padel Association. He is the founder and promoter of the Six Nations Masters Padel Tournament which is coming up to it's fifth year. He is a pr...
Emma Kimber is founding editor of The Bandeja, the only magazine dedicated to grassroots padel players in the UK (and further afield). The idea for the magazine was borne on a padel court and since its launch last year The Bandeja has attracted thousands of online readers. It recently went into print, an immense achievement in a digital era, and a new website is on the way. She is a real pioneer, and she has had help from several key figures in the padel industry in the UK as well as in a broade...
With a background in finance and having lived across Europe in Paris, London and Milan, I spoke to Francesco Belloni, the founder of Padel Hero padel facilities in Italy and an investor in New York's first padel club: Padel Haus. He has seen the world, speaks English with an American accent and he said is a 100% Italian! Great chat, have a listen!
The Padel Podcast will focus on key players of the Padel industry. For someone who is just getting into the sport, who is already playing and anyone who is interested on what padel is exactly, this is the right place! Every week I will talk to someone who has a deep connection with padel and some really exciting guests are lined up.
