Padel has been gaining international attention for quite some time now particularly in the Middle East. UAE has been in the forefront in promoting the game that has seen a substantial growth over the past decade. With more and more padel courts mushrooming in Dubai in the recent times, it has prompted the introduction of several tournaments, including the launch of World Padel League currently under way at the Coco-Cola Arena in Dubai.
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00:00I started to play padel in 2010 and it was only in Spain and right now it's everywhere.
00:10I'm really really happy to be in this event because also it's a new thing
00:14and I think that it's really really different and it's going to be awesome for sure.
00:19I started to play padel in 2010 and it was only in Spain and right now it's everywhere,
00:26like I think that we need just time to build more course, to have more coaches.
00:33At the end the amateur or the professional we need coaches to learn how to play.
00:38So I think that it's just time and money. I think that also the
00:44circuit, like the professional circuit is really important to let know the people what is padel.
00:51So I think that in five years everywhere we will be.
00:56In my club there were padel courses since I was a kid.
01:00So I already played before I quit tennis. I knew the sport and I really liked it
01:07but I couldn't practice as much as I want because I was playing tennis.
01:12So when I quit tennis I was not doing anything of a sport and then after a month I was like
01:19I need the competition so I started to play padel.
01:22Padel is really social so people really like it because it's a sport that after you play
01:30you start a conversation with your partner, with the opponents and the staff.
01:36For the amateur I think that it's really this point that makes the sport to make it a really
01:45really nice sport and also the thing is that for the woman it's really important because
01:51it's a sport really easy to start. I think that this sport, padel, has everything to
01:57have the combination to be like amateur or professional and also I think that the
02:02professional you have the men that is like a show because what they do is like almost impossible
02:09and the woman we make like what the amateur they can arrive to do.
02:15So I think that everything all this is a perfect combination.