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A deeper look at the people making a significant impact in our padel community.
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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
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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
Luicelena Pérez
Venezuelan-born, Miami-based Luicelena Pérez is one of the leading figures in women's padel in the United States.
10 Feb 2026
Olivia Çiftçi
Olivia Çiftçi was introduced to padel by her mum in August 2024 and, with no racket-sport background, has progressed rapidly since.
7 Feb 2026
Christian Murphy
Christian Medina Murphy, Great Britain's number one padel player, started playing at 14 and grew up in the game in Spain.
7 Feb 2026
Emily Kilner
Former England U21 hockey player Emily Kilner has become one of the leading presenters and hosts in UK padel.
7 Feb 2026
Jack Binstead
Jack Binstead took up padel in 2023, realised he was likely the only wheelchair padel player in the UK and set out to make the sport more inclusive.
5 Feb 2026
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