Wimbledon has shunned padel this year while tennis purists raise concerns over the fast-growing sport’s takeover of club courts
Wimbledon, a fortnight of tennis, all-white dress codes, strawberries, Pimm’s, royals and its famous queue all awaits. What will probably be absent at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, however, is any mention of tennis’s upstart cousin, padel.
Unlike Roland Garros in Paris, which set aside a court for this cross between tennis and squash, there is no planned promotion of padel in SW19, something which may seem curious given that the racket sport is one of the fastest growing in the world.
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