A Tennis Players Perspective On Padel

Hey guys

I hope you are all keeping warm.

Everybody always talks about how different Padel is from Tennis. This blog post is going to be based on a Tennis players perspective on Padel.

I have been a competitive Tennis player since I was around 5 or 6 years old and I can say without a doubt that Tennis was the love of my life, there was no other sport that I enjoyed as much as I enjoyed Tennis, it was even the only sport I actually watched on TV.

I was introduced to Padel about 4 years ago when I was offered a job to work in the Padel industry. At first when I started playing I didn’t enjoy it mainly because I kept hitting the ball straight into the wall.. classic Tennis player power struggle. The more I played, the more I got addicted to it and officially caught the Padel bug. I still played Tennis for a while until I eventually started coaching Padel. The Tennis started to affect the way I was playing Padel and visa versa. I sadly had to give up playing Tennis in order to focus on Padel mainly due to the fact that I was now coaching.

Even though people always say that Tennis and Padel are similar, I personally do not really see a lot of Tennis in Padel. There are definitely similarities when it comes to scoring and the basic look of the court. Padel and Tennis have very different techniques. The other thing that I struggled with in the beginning was hitting the ball after it comes off of the wall, I have now gotten the hang of it with a lot of practice. In Tennis you can let it go past you and when it hits the back fence it does not come back, but with Padel the ball comes back… with twice the speed. Let’s just say that getting used to the wall has been a journey. Squash players actually have a huge upper hand with the wall.

If I get into all of the reasons why I love this sport and how it differs from Tennis then this post would never end. Now I need o find a Squash player and get their perspective on Padel.

Thank you for reading my post, I hope you enjoyed it and if you haven’t tried Padel yet then do yourself a favour and give it a try. There is no shortage of Padel courts.

Bye xx