Hot on the heels of the Rick Draney interview and the note about the Tennis Australia “All Abilities Week”, I would love to see at least one of the slams schedule the wheelchair tennis finals directly before the men’s and women’s finals. This worked well for doubles. I feel like the four slams could figure out a rotating methodology for spotlighting doubles, wheelchair, and junior finals ahead of the main draw finals to maximize interest.
Love the pod and the newsletter. Really appreciate the work. Just listened to this week’s five setter and wanted to drop a thought. Padel and paddle are two different racquet sports, so it’s confusing when padel is pronounced as paddle. On another note it’s a change from its language of origin’s pronunciation, which feels uncomfortable. I get that we sometimes need to anglicize phonemes (it’d be pretty obnoxious if most native US English speakers were leaning hard into rolling r’s for example), but pah-DELL is within our phonetic range. If we can do Iga Swiatek, I think we can do padel. People just need to hear it as well as read it. Anyway, that’s my two cents. Thanks again for giving us all the content. I look forward to the print and the audio every week.
I only play tennis, but paddle, sometimes called “platform tennis,” is really big around here (Chicagoland) and well predates pickle or padel. And people are *intense* about it. I saw two teams post match accidentally show up at the same cafe in our small suburban town. I thought it was going to be like the fight scene in Anchorman.
I found this page explaining the difference between padel, paddle, pickle, and tennis. I have not subjected it to rigorous verification, so grains of salt and all that. I believe it all goes back to Real Tennis and to track the evolution you’d need to get out your chalk and go full Dewey Finn.
I think there’s definitely opportunity for exploration. And I do realize my comedic film references are as dated as I am.
Hot on the heels of the Rick Draney interview and the note about the Tennis Australia “All Abilities Week”, I would love to see at least one of the slams schedule the wheelchair tennis finals directly before the men’s and women’s finals. This worked well for doubles. I feel like the four slams could figure out a rotating methodology for spotlighting doubles, wheelchair, and junior finals ahead of the main draw finals to maximize interest.
Love the pod and the newsletter. Really appreciate the work. Just listened to this week’s five setter and wanted to drop a thought. Padel and paddle are two different racquet sports, so it’s confusing when padel is pronounced as paddle. On another note it’s a change from its language of origin’s pronunciation, which feels uncomfortable. I get that we sometimes need to anglicize phonemes (it’d be pretty obnoxious if most native US English speakers were leaning hard into rolling r’s for example), but pah-DELL is within our phonetic range. If we can do Iga Swiatek, I think we can do padel. People just need to hear it as well as read it. Anyway, that’s my two cents. Thanks again for giving us all the content. I look forward to the print and the audio every week.
Thank you for this! So what is the difference between the sports? Sounds like a great opportunity for exploration.
https://www.padelunitedsportsclub.com/blog/padel-vs-pickleball-vs-tennis-vs-paddle-tennis
I only play tennis, but paddle, sometimes called “platform tennis,” is really big around here (Chicagoland) and well predates pickle or padel. And people are *intense* about it. I saw two teams post match accidentally show up at the same cafe in our small suburban town. I thought it was going to be like the fight scene in Anchorman.
I found this page explaining the difference between padel, paddle, pickle, and tennis. I have not subjected it to rigorous verification, so grains of salt and all that. I believe it all goes back to Real Tennis and to track the evolution you’d need to get out your chalk and go full Dewey Finn.
I think there’s definitely opportunity for exploration. And I do realize my comedic film references are as dated as I am.