From recreational sport to professional connection tool, it's only a small step. For several months now, padel has been attracting a new audience: business networks. Entrepreneurs, executives, freelancers, and even elite athletes gather there, racket in hand, to combine performance, conviviality... and business.

Sphere, Net and Connect, Blue Athletics, Rezo Padel or Redes Padel, all are banking on this sport to create bridges between worlds. And behind this evolution, players like Anybuddy, a sports field reservation platform, plays a facilitating role.

A modern alternative to yesterday's golf

For a long time, golf was a sport for the professional elite. But the rules are changing. Padel offers a format much more in line with today's pace of life: short sessions, immediate dynamism, technical accessibility, and above all, a more mixte et collaborativeA game is often enough to break down hierarchical barriers, observe collective reflexes and initiate more spontaneous discussions.

The socio-professional profile of players reflects this trend: 42% of them are doctors, lawyers, engineers, managers or researchers, and a third have a Bac+5 level or higherA CSP+ audience who see padel not only as a physical outlet, but also as a tool for behavioral decryption – through attitudes on the ground, communication, adaptability.

Networks that capitalize on sporting emulation

In this context, networks such as Sphere (high potential entrepreneurs), Net and Connect (local leaders), or Blue Athletics (cohesion of leaders / high-level athletes) seized the opportunity. All regularly organize tournaments, afterworks, informal meetings around padel, focusing on sport as a trigger for strong connections.

Padel thus becomes a structuring pretext, a starting point for building more human professional relationships, far from classic sales pitches.

Anybuddy, the intermediary between gaming and business

In the background, Anybuddy facilitates this dynamic. Its application allows members of these networks to quickly reserve a pitch, manage their sporting events and connect with other players. But the platform goes further, by getting involved in thecommunity animation and creation of local synergies.

The most concrete example: the partnership with Sphere, already active in Toulouse and Bordeaux, and which will extend to Aix-en-Provence on June 18 (Z5 Padel) et Paris June 24 (Casa Padel).

"Sport is a lever for human and professional opportunities. With Sphère, we help create sustainable synergies, based on values ​​of sharing and performance," explains Guillaume Allaux, co-founder of the network.

Tomorrow, padel clubs as hybrid spaces?

Faced with this craze, some clubs are beginning to rethink their model. coworking spaces, meeting rooms ou lounge areas are emerging to extend exchanges after exercise. A natural evolution, according to Anybuddy, who wishes support this change, by creating bridges between sports and professional uses.

Padel is no longer just a sport. It is gradually becoming a a relational tool, a space for dialogue, a catalyst for opportunitiesAnd given its growth, this new dimension is only just beginning.

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