This year saw the launch of the first editions of both RacquetX in Miami, and then Padel World Summit in Malaga. Why did both founders (Robyn Duda and Alex Ponsetti respectively) decide that the time was right, now?

Both talk about how padel and the wider racquet sport space have matured to a point where serious business is being done and needs to be done in person.

And yet padel is still struggling to flicker on the radar of wider, non-endemic sports industry conference organisers. Why is that? In the second half of this episode, James Emmett from Leaders shines a light on how the evolution has not gone unnoticed, but is still short of taking the sports B2B event circuit by storm.