Something is up in the world of sports, and it's got padel written all over it. Since the beloved hobby began to take off about five years ago as a knock-on effect of the post-COVID-19 exercise renaissance, its global expansion hasn't stopped, as this new Parisian 'padel bar' goes to prove.
In its latest Global Padel Report, Playtomic, the world's leading app and platform for racket sports, predicts that the number of padel courts worldwide will reach 70,000 by the end of 2026. Meanwhile, in the How We Live, Shop and Look 2025 deep-dive of British department store John Lewis, which boasts an entire category page dedicated to padel, we learn that, unlike tennis rackets, Bullpadel gear has been "flying off the shelves" recently.
