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Pillens_burknerkorv t1_j1agr9f wrote

Reply to comment by Remarkable_Post_6168 in With 25 million players worldwide, padel is only tipped to get 'bigger and bigger' by tennis star Andy Murray by PhantomWizard2099

No one is playing padel anymore. It went away as fast as it came

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rilinq t1_j1bmlgs wrote

It boomed (at least in Sweden) during the pandemic since it wasn’t restricted. Now that people went back to what they prefer, it died down a little.

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Loud_Ad_8881 t1_j1both2 wrote

Stop spreading misinformation, padel is still growing in Sweden, there are more padel hours booked year after year (even in 2022) and theres no expectation that it will decrease any time soon.

The problem is that the growth curve has slowed down and that this has put an incredible strain on the over saturation of padel halls, forcing these to shut down in order to reach a somewhat equilibrium of supply and demand.

https://elitepadel.se/statistik-padel-sverige/

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Pillens_burknerkorv t1_j1cnh2k wrote

Statistics doesn’t lie but in my experience, which is observing my kids playing padel, the general interest has died down. We enrolled them in a beginners course in padel in 2020. The place was packed. All the courts were fully booked and there were 20 kids in the group. Our kids and their friends would go and play as a way of hanging out with each other. A year later when we enrolled for the follow up course, there were three kids enrolled. And there was maybe two of 8 courts being used.

Maybe it’s just bad timing when we were there if we look at the statistics but it certainly has influenced my opinion of padel. And my kids, or any of their friends, haven’t touched a padel rack for a year. They’re all back on the football pitch.

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Aquarius1975 t1_j1csqut wrote

Depending on where you live this could also be explained by more padel halls competing for costumers.

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Pillens_burknerkorv t1_j1d5com wrote

Yes. And perhaps the reason the local newspaper reports on halls going bankrupt

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rilinq t1_j1bq3c8 wrote

I mean it has died down a little as I said, it’s not misinformation. Several biggest Swedish outlets even reported about the crisis and a lot of halls closing down or going bankrupt, you can google it. Happened around October/November this year. You are just saying what I said in different words basically, at least try to understand what I said before going balls deep.

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