{"id":66,"date":"2006-05-06T11:15:18","date_gmt":"2006-05-06T16:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fabricegrinda.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2023-07-25T10:47:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T10:47:36","slug":"padel-the-future-of-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/it\/padel-the-future-of-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Padel: the future of tennis?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While traveling in Argentina and Spain, I came across an amazingly fun racquet sport called padel. Not to be confused with the American paddle or platform tennis, this fast paced game is a mixture of tennis and racquetball and mostly played in doubles. It\u2019s a lot easier to pick-up than tennis, requires a smaller area and costs only $25,000 to install a court. Most importantly, while in a tennis match only a few points are truly intense and fun in an entire set, with well balanced teams every point is heavily disputed in padel!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see a few points of padel played in the video below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g9gRE5EVHFg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Padel is now my favorite sport above tennis and skiing. I hope someone installs a few court in New York soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While traveling in Argentina and Spain, I came across an amazingly fun racquet sport called padel. Not to be confused with the American paddle or platform tennis, this fast paced &hellip; <a href=\"\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-musings"],"acf":[],"contentUpdated":"Padel: the future of tennis?. Categories - Personal Musings. Date-Posted - 2006-05-06T11:15:18 . \n While traveling in Argentina and Spain, I came across an amazingly fun racquet sport called padel. Not to be confused with the American paddle or platform tennis, this fast paced game is a mixture of tennis and racquetball and mostly played in doubles. It\u2019s a lot easier to pick-up than tennis, requires a smaller area and costs only $25,000 to install a court. Most importantly, while in a tennis match only a few points are truly intense and fun in an entire set, with well balanced teams every point is heavily disputed in padel!\n You can see a few points of padel played in the video below:\n Padel is now my favorite sport above tennis and skiing. I hope someone installs a few court in New York soon!\n ","Category":["Personal Musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19696,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/19696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}