The Padel Podcast

Mauri Andrini is always a pleasure to have on the podcast and he immediately said yes to my question on recording another episode with him. We talk about really controversial topics, and he has been just an absolute star again! Worth a listen!   false

Gerardo is the Chief Operating Officer of The Pádel Club Georgetown. In parallel, he serves as a Political Risk Associate with Arko International, where he advises on policy dynamics, commercial risk, and opportunities in the Americas. Originally from Mexico, Penchyna had a successful junior tennis career, representing Mexico in Junior Davis Cup in 2014 and 2016. He went on to play NCAA Division I tennis at Rice University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Political Science. He is a certified instructor in both yoga and pádel. Currently, he is pursuing a one-year online master's in Pádel Club Management with the University of Murcia in Spain, in partnership with PadelMBA. Before relocating to Guyana, Gerardo worked as a policy research analyst in Washington, DC. He holds a master's degree in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He is committed to wellness, racquet sports, and the intersection of geopolitics & business.   false

Ryan Redondo — a former All-American tennis player turned visionary entrepreneur. He's the CEO of Taktika Padel and the San Diego Stingrays, leading an ambitious plan to install over 200 padel courts across the West Coast. Under his leadership, Taktika Padel has become a hub for enthusiasts, offering comprehensive programs and tournaments. As CEO of Youth Tennis San Diego and the Barnes Tennis Center, Ryan is also making racquet sports accessible to all. Recognized as one of San Diego Business Journal's Leaders of Influence in Sports Business 2025, Ryan brings both passion and expertise to his mission of growing racquet sports in the U.S.   false

This week's guest has been one of the first non-Spanish person who really took padel to the next level! Victoria Pahlett is an ex tennis pro, who worked at Playtomic and went on to get to know everyone in the padel space. She has been to all over the world, seen the Swedish expansion of padel through and came up with the amazing idea of Padel Relations. She was a pleasure to have and we have had a great chat about everything padel   false

Nacho Porto is a Spanish-born padel coach and industrial engineer who began playing padel at the age of 10. With over 15 years of coaching experience in both Spain and Finland, he has competed in Spain's first category in Madrid and Málaga for more than eight years. Notably, he was a runner-up in the Spanish team competition and has won the "Series Nacionales Padel" four times in Málaga and Madrid. Additionally, Nacho has partnered with top players like Juan Lebron, the world number one, securing several tournament victories. ​ In Finland, Nacho co-founded Finspadel Akatemia, the first Finnish-Spanish padel academy located in Jyväskylä. ​ Nacho also contributes to the Finnish national padel team as an assistant coach, bringing international experience to the team's preparation for European competitions. ​   false

It is that time of the year! Expo or some might call it, Summit season! And who better to have on the podcast than the director of the Padel World Summit which will be held in Barcelona from the 27th till the 29th of May. We talk about a lot of great topics and Alex is such a natural, hope you'll like as much as I did!   false

I just got inspired by the Miami P1, so I thought I'll do a quick recap! Galan, Chingotto, Lebron, Stupa and all the other big names are being mentioned and how the ladies faired as well! Stay tuned for a lot more to come!   false

Mark Ayers is one of the pioneers of UK Padel, quite literally! He is planning over 80 events this year in the UK from juniors even up to the seniors! Their events all over the country bring a competitive edge as well as an amazing spirit all around for padel. Mark is a lighting engineer by trade, but now fully focusing on padel as his full time activity!    false

Just a quick recap of the Cancun P2 and what I'm expecting for the men's final!   false

Pasquale is back and he is always welcome on the pod!  We talk Coello's new racket line. Why Edu Alonso changed brands and how does it work with sponsorships in general! Head holds 3 of the 4 number 1s in the world, so they know something! Tune in!   false

Pablo Garcia of el4set is back and we talk about padel. Gijon P2, Tolito and Gonz Alfonso's chance, the Augsgate (Augsburger, Chozas and Libaak leaving Nox and Volt for Siux), Pablo turning pro and what he thinks of the goats of padel! Definitely a nerdy episode with a lot of insight!   false

Bojana was an absolute pleasure to have on the pod! She is smart, driven and just knows what it takes to be great in sports as well as to be exceptional in life! We talk about her connection to tennis, Novak Djokovic, Stef Bojic and Janko Tipsarevic and how she ended up as a professional padel player! She has an amazing follower base on Instagram as well as TikTok and she is a mindful content creator!  Tune in if you would like to hear how she is living her everydays! Also find the video on Youtube on my channel!   false

Fran is back, and he was worth the wait! We are joking, bantering and talking padel! We touch a bit on the new pairs, all his brands, which include Siux, Volt and 4ON as well as RS. He is definitely always welcome on the show, and he delivered as always!   false

Victoria Nicholas is a real multitasker! She is a gastroenterologist (which for the life of me I cannot pronounce) and as her hobby, she is one of the best padel players of the country! One of my most enjoyable chats and she talks about the everyday struggles and joys of being a doctor and a professional athlete!     false

Happy New Year listeners of the Padel Podcast! It is just me blabbing about the new pairs and what can we expect of them and the Premier Padel calendar! If you would like to get up to speed than tune in! false                              

Happy Holidays from the Padel Podcast! Ethan Bardo, who is UK Top10 came on the pod, and this was all before his massive sponsorship switch to Hirostar, which is a really exciting Italian brand, sponsoring the likes of Tolito Aguirre! Ethan has big plans, and training tirelessly to become the number 1 name in the UK and being as successful as can be in the world! Lovely guy, lovely chat, we need more Ethan Bardos in the world! false                                                      

You can sort of guess from her company, but Andi Neugarten-Maio absolutely LOVES padel! She was a great chat partner, while coming from a really strong tennis background, she found the unique love to another racket sport, which in our case is a revelation! Andi is based in Miami, so what better way to make yourself included in this unique space than to come up with a women's league, which will start on the 16th of January! Please have a listen, while she was an amazing person to talk to and her enthusiasm towards padel is anything but ordinary!   false                                                                                                

This one is a bit of a longer nerdy episode about the goat, the new pairs and the predictions for the masters final! I definitely think it's worth it to wait till the end!   false                

Another great episode with how a worldwide known brand was formed. Pedro Brito e Cunha established Volt Padel, and boy oh boy was it worth it. We talk about why Volt is different from all the other brands and we touch partly on the sponsorships as well.  Tune in!   false                                                                                      

Pasquale is back while Head came out with one of the most exciting things, which happened in padel since the Extreme One.  He is such a great person to chat to all things padel and we talk about the new Head innovations, the Libaak/Augsburger/Chozas controversy and why Head looks at the whole market a bit differently than everyone else!   false                          

Talk about enthusiast padelaholic! Padel with Holly on Instagram has been catching a lot of attention, while she is great, funny and genuine! We had a great time chatting away with Holly, who found her love towards padel and trying to raise awareness anywhere she goes! Certainly a must listen to all fellow padelaholics!   false                            

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   false                                                                                                                                                                      

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!   false                                        

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!   false                                                            

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!   undefined                                    

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.     undefined        

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!   undefined                                  

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!   undefined                                                  

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...   undefined                                                              

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!   undefined                                                        

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!   undefined                                                      

Tomi is the owner of the channel, Padel in Hungary, and he is a real padel enthusiast! He is a national team player, coach and in general, lives and breathes padel! We are planning on doing quite a bit of content together, so the first step is to get to know him! Please welcome him with open arms, he definitely deserves it! false

Alfonso Patacho is the most humble and kind hearted individual I came across in the padel world! Not only is he one of the best players in the UK, but also has a strong Spanish heritage which makes him formidable on the padel court! He was a bit reluctant to come on the pod, but boy was it worth it. Great guy and a really interesting insight on where the British are in the world of professional padel! false

Jesper is a real renassaince man as we say in Hungary, but in England we would call him a 'Jack of all trades'. He won 2 WSOP bracelets in his previous life, which I can certainly appreciate a lot as an enthusiastic poker player and nowadays he is dedicating a large chunk of his life to padel! Co-owner of Rocket Padel and great senior competitor, he already won the Euro Champs in the over 40s and now focusing on making Rocket Padel the UK's biggest padel club chain! It was great to meet him in person and hope you enjoy this episode! false

One of the guys who I definitely wanted to get on the podcast was Joan Suasi, who is the commercial director for the Rafa Nadal Academy! He is a humble, down to Earth guy, who knows a lot about how to run an academy, while the pressure was always going to be massive, when you are directing in some capacity the goat's academy! They are putting a lot of focus on the padel side of things, and they have some exciting plans ahead! Today is the last but one episode on the Padel Summit Week series, and tomorrow is the grand finale! From next week we are back to normal! Enjoy this episode! false

Bill is one of those guys, who has been there from the beginning! We instantly connected even before the Summit, and we definitely wanted to sit down and have a chat about what he has been doing in padel for the last 30+ years! He told me what he has experienced and why he thinks padel is going in the right direction! He even called himself a Tyrannosaurus Rex of padel, which I think isn't suiting, but hey, he definitely knows what he is doing. false

As promised, Mauri Andrini came on the pod and spoke about his journey within padel! Mauri is an ex professional player who played with the likes of Sanyo Gutierrez or Fernando Belasteguin (Bela) the goat, himself. He is an absolutely amazing coach, who is building something in English, which hasn't been done before! Amazing guy with an amazing agenda! false

Manu Martin definitely needs no introduction! The goat of padel tutoring and really approachable, great guy! I caught him at the Padel Summit, where sooo much is happening! We talk about his past, his present and his future! A must listen for padel enthusiasts! false

Loads of background noise, different atmosphere, quicker format! Live interviews are in, and who better to start it off with than with Ben Nichols, everyone's favorite PR person in the padel industry! Partly he is the reason I'm in this field, so we had a great chat and he was lovely to reach out about a live interview in his hotel's lobby! Innovation in the different areas, what is happening with the US and the UK padel scene, and is pickleball relatable to padel? false

Ben is doing something, which no one in the UK has done before and organizing The Padel Directory! One thing is that he instantly became a padel enthusiast, but he is such a great ambassador of the sport, that it was a privilege to have him on the show! As a sport fanatic and now converted padel freak, he has great insight on what is going on in the British padel and now the idea of The Padel Directory is not just an idea, but a reality. Starting on the 1st of June, please watch all the spaces!

This week was really special!  Started off by speaking to Tom Farquharson, who definitely doesn't need any introduction, while he is one of those few guys who everyone identifies with padel! We met on the Padel Aid in the Padel Hub in Slough as well and shared a few games in the process. Tom is a junior Wimbledon doubles champion so we got into a lot of tennis, and the grind of the tour and also on how padel just got him an absolute new love! He is ecstatic doing The Padel School with his brother and also getting to the highest echelons of padel, with being in the selection for Team GB!  Great treat for the weekend, have a listen! false

Nowadays it feels like Nikhil is everywhere! He is part of the best tutoring platform of The Padel School, he became the ambassador for Padel India, he is number 3 in the GB rankings and just established the R3 Agency, which is giving expert management to the British and International padel players! And he is just a humble lovely guy! I caught him in Alicante where he is training for the moment for the FIP Rise tournaments and the results just keep on coming! In my opinion, this was one of the most easy chats I had! 

George Modler is exactly what UK padel needs.  He is young, enthusiastic and full of ideas! He is the founder of the Golden Point Padel Event series, which are tournaments for beginners to intermediate players and he also came up alongside his partner Ben Harris to establish The Padel Directory! He is part of the 'Bristol Series' of us, Bristolians who fell in love with padel! Great lad, great chat, please do enjoy!

Andres recognized the niche in the United States to do an all-in-one management and booking software for racket sports a few years ago! Since then it became the main platform for racket sports players across quite a few countries! Their main focus is the club owner and they are doing everything they can to make the experience flawless!  We touch on pickleball, tennis, padel and how's the current situation of padel in the US. false

This week's guest was a person who knows more about padel than almost anyone! An ex coach, ex club manager, club owner and now plays pivotal roles in the Malaga Padel Summit (21-23 of May) and the International Padel Cluster! He has great knowledge and insight in on several topics, like what padel needs to do to get into the Olympics and what to expect on this great convention which will be held in Malaga! More than worth a listen for every padel lover!

Roxy is padel royalty. She has played a pivotal role in the boom of the Bristol padel scene and she is now the Head of Padel of Rocket Padel, which is the most ambitious court provider of the UK with Swedish roots. She is an amazing squash player and getting significantly better in padel as well! Super fun personality with a lot of valuable insight! false

Double header alert! Geoff and Ryan from Novor wanted to come on the show quite a few months ago when their brand idea was more of an idea than anything else. Then (wisely), they said it might be a bit too early, but now since their actual launch, it was the right time to tell me about how to build up a completely new brand from scratch! We talk about their product, what padel means to them and how this idea came about! This is why you should go to Uni, you might meet your business pal later!

Padel holidays? Sign me up! What does it take for a Swedish entrepreneur to build his own little Padel paradise in the island of Solta in Croatia! Well, a lot of planning, energy, money and will! Tom is a padel enthusiast who thought the best way to make people fall in love with the sport even more is to build his holiday getaway called Padel Solta! Exciting podcast as always and it's more than worth a listen!

This week I had Christoffer Granfelt, the founder of InstantPadel on the podcast, who makes padel accessible for the masses. It is really important for him to point out that he wants padel to grow from grassroots up to the highest level. He is an entrepreneur from Sweden with a clear vision and his company, InstantPadel (which is in the transition of changing their name, we will explain why), came up with a brilliant idea that padel and pickleball (yes, pickleball), could be played on one court! Great chat, worth a listen!

Philip Pereira is a real treat for you, podcast listeners! He has been in padel longer than almost anyone I spoke to so far, and was great fun to have a conversation with! We talk about his past within the publishing industry and how much he can provide for the padel world and especially The Padel Summit in Malaga! Please go and enjoy!

The GOAT is back! Pablo Garcia joined me to talk about sponsor changes in the off-season and what he thinks will happen this year on the women's tour and how the sponsor changes will plan out!  He is an absolute gem of a person! Please take a listen!