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Growing Padel in the UK<br />

www.ipadel.co.uk<br />

07765 403769<br />

ian@ipadel.co.uk<br />

Photos: James Thorp<br />

iPadel winter<br />

league<br />

booked the sun<br />

at finals weekend<br />

Summer league<br />

<strong>The</strong> iPadel summer league season has already<br />

started, with some 20 clubs and 44 teams competing<br />

through to August, with the finals in September. <strong>The</strong><br />

season is being sponsored by @playtomic,<br />

@Royalpadel, @thebandeja.<br />

For more information and to get prepared for entering<br />

the 2022 winter league, visit www.ipadel.co.uk<br />

<strong>The</strong> iPadel winter league drew to<br />

a close with players from around<br />

the country gathering for the<br />

tournament finals at <strong>The</strong> Limpsfield<br />

Club in Surrey.<br />

<strong>The</strong> winter league is part of iPadel’s<br />

national club leagues which are open<br />

to club-level players (suggested<br />

ratings of between 3.0 and 5.0)<br />

wanting to play competitive matches<br />

against other local padel clubs with<br />

the draw of a national final. Fifteen<br />

clubs and 34 teams participated in five<br />

men’s and two women’s leagues.<br />

<strong>The</strong> finals weekend marked a thrilling<br />

ending to the season, with excellent<br />

play by all teams, including a number of<br />

players preparing to head off to Las Vegas<br />

for the Seniors World Padel Championship.<br />

Battling it out for the women’s teams<br />

were players from Rocks Lane Chiswick,<br />

David Lloyd Bushey, Esher and <strong>The</strong> Bourne<br />

Club, Farnham. <strong>The</strong> eventual winners<br />

were the Rocks Lane ladies with the<br />

runners-up David Lloyd Bushey.<br />

Powering through for the men were<br />

Solihull, Limpsfield, Jet Padel, Oxshott,<br />

Sutton Coldfield, Rocks Lane Chiswick,<br />

Roehampton and Middlesbrough.<br />

Champions were the Solihull Arden<br />

team, with Roehampton runners-up.<br />

<strong>The</strong> iPadel winter league was sponsored<br />

by @padelclub, @Royalpadel,<br />

@everythingpadel, @thebandeja.<br />

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