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How padel disrupted the genteel world of lawn tennis

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par John William Devine, Senior Lecturer in Ethics, Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Swansea University

Padel has captured the British sporting imagination. Combining aspects of tennis and squash, and played across a net but within a walled court, padel was invented in Mexico in 1969.

In the intervening half century, it cultivated a significant following in Latin America and Spain. Padel is the second most popular participation sport in Spain – behind football – with 6…

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