All The Angles

This week we tried something different. An experiment. We played Devil's Advocate.What if we gave two expert observers of the sports business industry a chance to opine on the sport of padel: both the participation piece and the professional piece?Neither had much of a grounding in the sport apart from some context we provided and we asked them where they felt padel sat in relation

Anyone monitoring padel worldwide is monitoring the US. And anyone doing that, knows that Miami is where the momentum started.Miami is now home to about 80 courts, making up one third of all US courts. And more clubs are springing up all the time. But how did the sport find a foothold there? How has it grown since then? And what is its, as well as the country's, future relationship

Modern sports now rely on third party content creators to grow recognition, drive fan engagement and entertain. Those who made a name for themselves early and who found a winning formula, have secured reputations, followings and relationships within the sport that are the envy of everyone else.Two individuals who did just that in the last 5 or 6 years are Pablo Garcia of The 4th Se

The world of sport is increasingly waking up not only to the importance of women participants and players, but the need to meet them on their own terms.In the rush to launch, build and roll out across the padel ecosystem, it can become easy to park, if not ignore, any such segmentation.This week's episode doesn't look at women working in the padel business, nor does it explore the

Difficult to argue against the idea that internationally, padel is riding a wave of discovery, growth and enthusiasm. Some call that a hype cycle.But what comes with that? What characterises a hype cycle? And what are the positives that come with that status or moment?Equally, what are the dangers and downsides of a hype cycle? And cycles tend not to last forever. What happens on t

Argentina is not a country or market to take lightly. It is one of the biggest markets in padel globally and one with a proud and long history in the sport.So this week, we brought in two absolute heavyweights of the country to talk us through the beginnings of Argentina's adoption of padel as a national sport, the boom and the bust, the dividends of a history and dedication to the

One of the areas outside the Spanish-speaking homelands that has really embraced padel in recent years is the Middle East.Brought to Dubai by Sheikh Hamdan, the sport has flourished in the region to the point where now in 2024, the Qatar Sports Investments runs the sole and FIP-recognised global professional tour, Premier Padel.In this week's episode of All the Angles, Alex Inglot

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

This last June, IMG unveiled their entry into the padel space, by announcing men's Number 1 Arturo Coello as their first client and bringing on board industry heavyweights Auguste Hernan and Daniel Dios to drive the vertical.It is a seismic moment when a company with the size, reputation, breadth and pedigree enters the market and in this week's episode, Alex Inglot and Hexagon Cup

Asia is the largest and most populous continent in the world. It has the fastest growing consumer class globally. It has rich pockets of racket sport pedigree.So the conditions for padel's proliferation are perfect. But there have been delays and challenges.In this week's episode of All The Angles, Alex Inglot and Hexagon Cup's Ben Nichols are joined by three outside experts from d