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.