Born almost by accident in an Acapulco garden, padel has in fifty years become a global phenomenon that both fascinates and worries tennis. Its meteoric rise is already reshaping the landscape of racket sports.
Programs for all ages and a pathway to the professional world in major complexes that are increasingly modernized. This is the motto of the Rafa Nadal Academy, which discovers the champions of tomorrow and prepares them for the very highest level.
Exhausted but omnipresent stars, ever-longer tournaments and exhibitions that have become a business in their own right: tennis is revealing its deepest contradictions, torn between spectacle and physical survival.
This is a decision that is making a lot of noise in the French tennis world: the FFT has been ordered to pay €850,000 to its former DTN, Nicolas Escudé. A case that highlights internal tensions and the federation's controversial choices.