The Bandeja Magazine Issue 2

New courts
New Courts
Brentwood Padel Club, Essex (Padel 123)
3 outdoor
Broxbourne Sport Clubs, Hertfordshire
2 outdoor
Church Broughton LTC, Derbyshire
1 outdoor
David Lloyd Bicester
3 outdoor
Derby (We Are Padel)
11 indoor
Edinburgh Park (Game4Padel)
2 covered
Jersey (Island Padel)
3 indoor, 2 outdoor floodlit
Lockleaze, Bristol (Padel4all)
4 covered
Newquay, Heron Tennis Centre
(Game4Padel) 1 outdoor court
Nottingham Padel Centre
4 outdoor courts
Marjon University, Plymouth
4 outdoor
Oxford (MVP)
3 covered
Ripon Tennis Centre
1 canopied, 1 outdoor
Rocks Lane:
Chiswick 4 covered
The Point, Polzeath 2 outdoor
Trevose Golf & Country Club 2 outdoor
Skipton
1 outdoor
Waltham Abbey (Padel United)
6 outdoor
Windsor Penarth (Game4Padel)
1 courts
Wilmslow (The Padel Club)
4 courts
Withdean, Brighton (Game4Padel)
One pop-up court
The Padel Social Club Installed seasonal
pop-up courts in to Gleneagles, Scotland
& Babington House, Somerset.
Coming soon
Bristol (We Are Padel)
7 indoor courts
Bristol (Rocket Padel)
14 indoor courts
Bristol (Redland Green)
2 outdoor courts
Draycott Sports Centre, Staffordshire
(Game4Padel) 2 covered
Forthill Community Sports Club, Tayside
(Game4Padel) 1 canopied
GolfIt! Leathamhill golf course, Glasgow
(Game4Padel)
3 covered courts
Grappenhall Village Lawn Tennis Club,
Warrington 2 courts
Ipswich Sports Club (Game4Padel)
4 covered courts
Port Sunlight Tennis Club, The Wirral
(Padel United)
5 outdoor
The Queen’s Club, London
2 floodlit
Windsor Penarth
Former British No 1 tennis player Annabel Croft officially opened
Game4Padel’s Windsor Penarth Lawn Tennis Club padel court. The
facility, the first in Wales, was built in April 2021 but the official opening
was delayed by around a year due to Covid.
In the photo: at the opening (from left) Annabel Croft, Anthony Phillips,
former chairman of Windsor Penarth Lawn Tennis Club, Tiffany William
& James Rose, Game4Padel national development manager.
Magpies deliver
first public courts
Notts County FC is not the first UK
football club to build a padel court
but it is the first to install four courts
for public use.
The new outdoor facilities, named
Nottingham Padel Centre, are the
brainchild of club owners, Alex and
Christoffer Reedtz. who are keen to
introduce new sporting opportunities
to the community. Alex played tennis
to a high level and was familiar with
the popularity of padel.
“Alex had seen how padel has
grown in Denmark and Scandinavia
and we had space at the back of a
stand so he thought it would be a
good idea,” said Notts County finance
director Martin Baker.
The club has partnered with Padel IQ
to deliver a fully automated facility,
with online bookings giving access
to the car park, court codes and
timed lighting. Rackets and balls are
available for hire. Within one day of
opening more than 65 bookings had
been made, with a mix of experienced
players and those new to the game.
“It has been extremely well received,”
added Martin. “The people I have
spoken to have thoroughly enjoyed
the experience and expressed a
desire to come back.”
It’s yet to be seen if the club’s players
will be booking themselves onto
court; the team has taken top spot
in the National League and Martin
is keen that they don’t injure
themselves playing padel and fail
to secure promotion!
nottinghampadelcentre.com/en
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