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Padel power! But will this crazy new sport ever be a hit?

20 January 2018

9:00 AM

20 January 2018

9:00 AM

When we arrived, we discovered that our villa had a padel court. Few of us had seen one before and no one knew the rules, so we invented them as logically as we could and got on with it. Within a couple of sets we were hooked. Some people started to get up early to practise; others began watching matches on YouTube.

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