My tennis-mad partner recently came home with a new bit of kit – a neon-green padel racket. To me it looked more like something for batting a ball around on the beach, but it was actually his first foray into a sport that has caused some disruption in the genteel world of lawn tennis, just as Wimbledon is heating up.

Padel culture prizes informality, community and inclusion. Music often plays while spectators recline on beanbags and socialise court-side. Padel is not simply a different sport to tennis; it offers a different way of playing racket sports entirely, far removed from the restrained hush of Wimbledon’s courts. That’s perhaps why tennis clubs are getting more than a little hot under the collar about the new game’s popularity.

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