81,000 people at Roland Garros. £100,000 raised for charity. Padel heading onto BBC Scotland. And apparently, it might now find you a date.
Not a bad seven days for a sport involving four people, four walls and an ongoing disagreement about whether that ball was actually out.
This week’s padel news has gone in several wonderfully different directions, and PSF is preparing for two events that rather perfectly sum up why we love this sport.
81,000 People Can’t All Be Wrong
The Paris Major at Roland Garros drew a record 81,000 spectators, while back in Britain, the inaugural Scottish Open Padel Championships is getting the BBC treatment, with its final stages shown live by BBC Scotland.
Investment isn’t slowing either. The Padel Club has raised another £3 million to support its continued expansion, with new UK locations including a 10 court padel venue planned for Sutton Coldfield.
But one of our favourite stories happened away from the professional tour entirely.
Padel Does Some Good
At PADELFEST, 32 teams from the British media industry picked up their rackets and raised an extraordinary £100,000 for the British Heart Foundation.
We’re seeing more of this, and padel is particularly good at it. It’s social, perfect for team events and, crucially, people actually want to take part.
That’s close to us at PSF Collective.
We’ve collaborated with numerous charitable padel events, while 100% of profits from tees in our PSF Charity Range are donated to charity, supporting causes including cancer research and wildlife conservation.
Giving back has been part of the PSF story from the beginning.
Play for the trophy. Play for bragging rights. But sometimes?
Play for something considerably bigger than the score.
PSF Is Packing for Two Very Different Padel Parties
First up is another Summit Padel Tour, where we’re creating bespoke organiser tees, supplying PSF giveaways and bringing PSF Sounds to provide the soundtrack to the day.
Then things get slightly more romantic.
We’re collaborating with Laura Kay’s Singles Padel Social at Encourt, where singles can mingle, play padel and perhaps meet their match somewhere between the glass and the bar.
We’ll be bringing PSF Sounds, organiser tees and PSF giveaways there too.
Can we guarantee you’ll leave with someone’s number?
Absolutely not.
We know our limits.
We Want to Be Part of the Day
This is where PSF thrives.
We make padel T-shirts , hoodies and sweatshirts and padel caps influenced by vintage racket sport and Mediterranean club culture, but we never wanted PSF to exist solely as something you wear.
PSF is here for it.
The organiser tee. The unexpected giveaway. The music between matches. The people watching. The drink afterwards. The stranger you met because somebody desperately needed a fourth.
Working with tournaments, organisers, players, communities and charitable events allows us to support the whole lifestyle surrounding padel, not just what happens inside the court.
That’s après padel.
Life after match point. Designed for the unwind.
From Hollywood to Padel Without Borders
Across the Atlantic, padel continues to attract an increasingly high profile following, with David Beckham, Eva Longoria and Tom Holland among the names associated with the game.
Tom Holland has even used padel to bring people together around his own brand, reinforcing the idea that padel is as much about community and connection as it is competition.
We’re resisting the temptation to say we told you so.
But another international story matters to us considerably more.
An international wheelchair padel tournament is planned alongside the 2027 Paris Major at Roland Garros.
We’ve spoken before about accessibility within padel and we’ll continue to support that conversation. The continued development of padel across Britain brings an opportunity to make sure the sport grows in the right way.
Because Padel Sans Frontières believes those borders aren’t simply geographical.
Age. Gender. Sexuality. Disability. Background.
As the sport grows, so does the opportunity to make sure more people feel part of it.
It’s the same thinking behind our approach to sustainable materials and ethical production. Growth should mean progress, but it should also come with some thought about the impact we leave behind.
And while padel is filling stadiums, raising serious money for good causes and finding its way onto mainstream television, we’ll be over here printing organiser tees, packing giveaways and sorting playlists.
Because that’s exactly where we want PSF to be.
Not watching the padel community from the sidelines. Right in the middle of it.
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