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. false

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! false

Double header alert! 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...

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.  false

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...

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