Although the WPT finals games played in Spain are broadcast on Gol Tv, it is interesting how many times we have talked about “padel”On the Spanish news. And there, bad news: The numbers are bad.

6 days of padel

It is Reportero Olimpico who noticed this strangeness on the main Spanish media. The analysis was done for a whole year on the news of 15h and 21h of the Spanish main channel TVE1.

Although it is a sport from Latin countries and heavily practiced by the Spanish, the theme around padel was announced only 6 days in the year compared to 191 times for tennis, 235 times for basketball and 364 times for football.

Le padel : International development

It is necessarily a disappointment for Spain, but also and above all for the padel in general. Because we observe that the development of padel will go through the international and not through Spain. Today the padel wins stripes every day on all continents.

The subject padel in the media is regularly discussed. For now, the media are introducing the padel with auditors. But this is already a huge step forward because all continents are affected by this sport.

But if we want this sport to become Olympic, we will need the help of the Spanish media to ignite this possibility for Paris 2024.

Julien Bondia

Julien Bondia is a teacher of padel in Tenerife (Spain). Columnist and advisor, he helps you play better through his tutorials and tactical/technical articles padel.

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