Making a racket about padel at a club in Boksburg – The Mail & Guardian

Making a racket about padel at a club in Boksburg – The Mail & Guardian

Padel is the world’s fastest-growing sport and South Africa is certainly following the craze. The sport, which has some similarities to tennis and squash, is still relatively new and small here compared with countries like Spain — known as the home of padel with more than 16  000 courts — as well as Italy and Sweden.  The country has come a long way since the first padel court was built in 2019 at Val de Vie Estate in Paarl. By December 2024, th…