The Padel Podcast

This week we are staying with the padel apparel brands!

Cuera is super special for me while Padel Shift's Jack Chaplin and Jack Hazlewood (great friends of the show) are sponsored by them, and I have known about the brand for quite some time.

Ulrik reached out a few weeks ago and we instantly connected. I think it's fair to say that the Danes know how to create goods for the consumers.

This is a must listen for all padel gear lovers

Pulco is a specialist padel apparel brand and Joe Middleton is the founder. 

He has unbelievable knowledge on garments through his life long experience with clothing brands and what better way to utilize it than in the fastest growing sport in the world.

He is not someone who I had to ask a lot, that is for sure! 

Hopefully you will enjoy it as much as I have!

Dori is just simply awesome! She is the number 1 ranked Hungarian female player and she is just climbing up the FIP rankings!

She is ambitious, has amazing work ethic and brought a lot of vital skills over from tennis. As a college tennis player in a previous life, she has learnt how to compete and she brought that attitude on the padel court!

A real gem who was amazing to have on the podcast!

Pasquale joined Head, one of the main padel brands in the world, even before Padel started to make waves. 

He is an unbelievably strong squash player, who is the current Swiss and German over 35 champion, and rightly so, he loves to compete!

Whether it is in business or on a squash or padel court!

If you want to hear how he spoke without languages during a lunch with Bela, or what is Arturo Coello's specs, tune in!

The Padel Pod is an amazing weekly podcast which is talking about Premier Padel and the main players! Gonz and Hugo are just passionate about padel like no one else, and it helps a lot that both of them are bilingual (Spanish and English). 

It was great to get to know them better and we chatted away about the new pairs and what they think which new pair will be the best.

Ray has extensive knowledge of how to run a business, so he thought what better way to actually jump into a new business as to get into padel court building!

He has a real passion for the game and his courts at Padel Alba certainly don't disappoint! 

But how did a guy from Latvia become a court manufacturer owner in Alicante, Spain!

Listen to the episode to figure it out!

Mr UK Padel on the podcast, ladies and gentlemen!

Toby knows, plays, builds, sells everything padel! A true renaissance man of the UK padel scene, he is part of the LTA Padel coaching, knows everything about the gear, and also builds padel courts around to make this sport accessible for all!

And first and foremost a great sport, who has been amazing with his knowledge on the pod! Go and have a listen!

This week I thought it would be useful to talk about the pair changes and what has happened lately in the padel world. 

Yanguas-Stupaczuk, Di Nenno-Lebron, Paquito-Cardona and Alex Ruiz-Garrido are the new pairs I talk about in a bit more depth and also about the fastest final of the season and one of the best matches, which ended in a weird handshake, oh well, we all know Lebron now, don't we? 

Please enjoy and let me know if you would like to hear more about me blabbing...

Tito Moreno has been there since the beginning of padel in the US!

As an enthusiastic kid he got to play his first competitive match against Agustin Tapia and he didn't disappoint! He came up with the brilliant full turnkey service company, AMET International and still trains every day to become one of the players who will represent the USA in the 2032 Olympics in padel! Really interesting chat and definitely worth a listen to the longest episode there has been in the podcast's tenure!

Gilles is one of the 50 most influential people in the padel scene!

When you hear how measured he is when he talks about padel, you can just feel that he oozes confidence, while he has seen so much in padel!

He know MATCHi inside and out, and the same applies for Playtomic. He is now a freelance helper around the padel world, and in general just an absolute gem of a person!

When will Mongolia become a proper padel nation? If you listen closely you will know!