Jamie Murray insists padel should not be viewed as a threat to tennis

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Jamie Murray has insisted padel is just not a menace to tennis, as he backed the game to rise in prominence within the coming years.
Padel has been hailed because the fastest-growing sport within the UK, after a 12 months that has seen an increasing number of courts put in and participation numbers rising.
But tennis nonetheless seems to be at padel as one thing of a menace to its domination of the racket sport market, with the political maneuvers of latest weeks highlighting the jostling for place.
The Worldwide Tennis Federation made an try earlier this month to claim management over the game of padel and successfully develop into its new governing physique.
Padel already has a governing physique and with the Dubai-backed Worldwide Padel Federation additionally urgent its claims to be a frontrunner in organising the way forward for the game.
A cross between tennis and squash, performed on a courtroom surrounded by a heavy-duty glass encompass that enables gamers to hit the ball after it bounces again off the wall, the sport initially began in Mexico and rapidly swept by South America after which into Europe.
Seven-time Grand Slam tennis champion Jamie Murray is an enormous supporter of padel and has invested in Game4Padel, who’re main the set up race of courts within the UK.
Talking completely to Tennis365, Murray insisted the game will develop alongside tennis and should even be performed by extra folks within the UK than the long-established racket sport.
“I don’t suppose padel is a menace to tennis in any approach,” stated Murray, together with his brother and two-time Wimbledon champion Andy additionally an investor in Game4Padel.
“I don’t see any unfavourable to having a few padel courts in your tennis membership because it provides to the providing for members and will carry new folks to each sports activities.
“The game goes to develop and develop and we have to improve the variety of courts that folks can play on. After we get folks on the market, you may see the enjoyment and as a social sport, it’s nice enjoyable.
“If I am going and play tennis with buddies, it’s not a variety of enjoyable as a result of the sport is tough to be taught and there are a variety of features to it.
“With padel, we will get on the market and have some good rallies fairly rapidly. That’s the fantastic thing about the game.
“You might be taking part in in a smaller house, you don’t must run down a few courts to gather the balls and the sociable side of this sport is best than tennis.”
Andy Murray’s former coach Jamie Delgado additionally spoke to Tennis365 about the way forward for padel, in his position as a Game4Padel ambassador.
“Tennis is kind of a tough recreation to play,” Dalgado informed us. 
“Whether or not it’s the larger courtroom or the tools that’s tougher to make use of, to play it at an honest degree, you need to have performed from a younger age and put a variety of hours into it.

“With padel, even when you have by no means performed earlier than, you may decide it up fairly rapidly and have a superb recreation. So it’s rather more engaging for some folks to play padel than tennis.
“You possibly can have a little bit of banter with your pals taking part in padel, attempt to work out play it and it is usually a superb exercise doing it.
“Tennis could be a bit robust to get rallies going whenever you begin and also you spend a variety of time selecting balls up, however that doesn’t occur with padel.
“We now have plenty of courts and there are plans for extra courts to go down so it’s defiantly getting larger annually now.”

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