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About Padel Padel is a combination of tennis and squash. Scoring is the same as tennis and many of the padel rules are also similar. The main difference is that, like squash, play takes place within an enclosed court and this, together with the underhand serves, results in padel being an easy sport to learn. In Spain there are around 1 million players from as young as the age of 4 to people in their 80’s. It is also played in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, Portugal, Sweden, Uruguay and the USA. Padel is generally played in padel centres and joint tennis and padel centres where coaches teach both sports. The courts are small enough, being 20m by 10m, to fit into the private gardens of some padel enthusiasts. Twelve people playing padel on three courts take just over the same area as four people playing doubles at tennis. Padel is particularly good for developing racquet sports for junior players. As the serve is underhand it allows rallies to develop. Padel courts may be used for short tennis and junior squad training sessions to provide net practice and other tennis routines. Padel racquets are approximately 460mm long, with a 32mm thick head of approximately 255mm wide & long. The head is a composition faced with carbon fibre and it has an average of sixty 13mm diameter holes through it. Padel racquets are available from around £25 up to £150. Padel Balls are generally used and are mandatory for major tournaments and they are very similar to tennis balls.