PADEL TENNIS WAS INVENTED BY
ENRIQUE CORCUERA IN 1969
Corcuera adapted a Fronton court he already had (giving us the 20x10m Measurements) and enclosed the court with walls to stop the ball from entering the neighbor’s land. He called his sport “padel Corcuera”.
Padel was taken to Spain via the Marbella Club where it spread rapidly. In 1975 the sport was brought to Argentina, where there are now more than 2 million officially licensed Padel players.
In Argentina, more people are playing Padel than football!The International Padel Federation (FIP) was formed in 1991.1992 marked the birth of British Padel when a group of British ex-pats went to compete at the first-ever Padel World Championships. The World Padel Tour was formed in 2013, to provide professional tournaments for Padel players, mostly consisting of tournaments in Spain and Argentina.
