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A deeper look at the people making a significant impact in our padel community.
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Dora Chamli
Tunisian professional padel player Dora Chamli on her path from tennis to FIP tournaments and her drive to inspire young athletes, especially girls.
16 Oct 2026
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Dora Chamli
Tunisian professional padel player Dora Chamli on her path from tennis to FIP tournaments and her drive to inspire young athletes, especially girls.
16 Oct 2026
Brittany Dubins
Brittany Dubins, the first American in padel’s world Top 100, on Miami, Madrid, Team USA and the realities of the professional tour.
16 Oct 2026
Anna Guryanova
Budapest-based former Division I tennis player Anna Guryanova on switching to padel, learning from a pro coach and chasing the FIP Top 200.
15 Oct 2026
Louis Jarrold
Louis Jarrold went from padel beginner to FIP tournaments and representing Ireland at the Euros in two years, sharing it all on Padelactico.
15 Oct 2026
Martín de León
Martín de León on swapping architecture for padel, lessons from Taktika and the Stingrays, and building a youth academy in London.
14 Oct 2026
Sheena Varsani
Sheena Varsani on finding padel as an above-knee amputee, the Inclusive Padel Tour, and why adaptive players belong in the sport from day one.
8 Sep 2026
The Padel Fam
Siblings Mike and Kelly-Jayne represented Great Britain in tennis, but padel, first played on family holidays at La Manga, has come full circle for them.
10 Jun 2026
Marco
Marco found padel through a friend in South Africa, got hooked at an open play session in Singapore and went on to build a padel platform.
24 Apr 2026
International Senior Padel Tour
Roque Roasio went from a 6-0 6-0 padel defeat in Córdoba in 1986 to leading the International Senior Padel Tour, with 54,000 players in 60 countries.
28 Mar 2026
Padelgrapher
Photographer Ravinder Singh, aka Padelgrapher, turned a casual community game into a new craft capturing padel's raw, unscripted moments.
28 Mar 2026
Abigail Tordoff
Former tennis pro Abigail Tordoff, once ranked 240 in the world and later an athlete manager at Octagon, has found a second sporting chapter in padel.
22 Feb 2026
Clementina Riobueno
Venezuelan-born Clementina Riobueno moved to the US on a tennis scholarship at 14 and has reinvented herself as a professional padel player.
10 Feb 2026
PadelEdge
Guillermo Cagigas and Ernesto Rocabert founded PadelEdge in Miami to give US players structured padel training beyond one-off lessons and clinics.
10 Feb 2026
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