Padel ➡ Diabetes?
El Remate #3
Welcome to the 3rd newsletter of El Remate: your weekly(ish) dose of everything happening in the fastest-growing racquet sport from a 🇺🇸 POV. From London to Buenos Aires to New York City to Madrid, we’re covering it all.
🔍 Topics we’ll cover this week🏆 Josemaría/Sánchez & Chingotto/Galán can’t stop winning
💔 Lebrón dumps Stupa (and yes, chaos ensues)
💸 Now, you can literally own part of the padel boom
🤠 Tequila, design, and a court (or six)
🫶 The UK’s first deaf-friendly tournament serves pure joy
🥴 “Padel causes diabetes”…?
Enjoy the read! 💛
🏆 Tournament Roundup 🏆 Back-to-Back Brilliance: Josemaría-Sánchez & Chingotto-Galán Stay Hot (🇪🇬)
From Milan to Newgiza, the script didn’t change… just the scenery. Paula Josemaría and Ari Sánchez cruised through the Egyptian P2 to claim their sixth title of 2025, becoming the first duo in padel history to win Premier Padel titles on four continents. Not to be outdone, Fede Chingotto and Ale Galán cleaned house again (their seventh trophy of the year!), leaving Paquito Navarro and Jon Sanz wondering what hit them.
The men’s final barely lasted long enough to finish your café con leche. ☕️ Fede and Ale bulldozed their way to a 6-1, 6-2 win, not dropping a single break point. Galán lifted the pyramid-shaped trophy, while Chingotto thanked “the team” (and probably his forehand) for another flawless week.
On the women’s side, Paula and Ari handled Ale Salazar and 17-year-old Martina Calvo with the grace of veterans who’ve seen every shot in the book: 6-3, 6-0, no drama, no problem. Next stop: Kuwait City, where the FIP World Cup Pairs kicks off today. Something tells me these two teams aren’t done collecting stamps (or, silverware, rather). 💁♀️✈️🥇
Back to back for for Josemaria-Sanchez and Chingotto-Galan. Now heading to Kuwait
💔 Breakup & Rebound: Lebrón Dumps Stupa, Runs Off with Leo (🇪🇬)
What’s a Premier Padel tournament without a lil drama? After a shock exit after a round-of-16 loss at the NewGiza P2, Juan “El Lobo” Lebrón and Franco Stupaczuk have officially called it quits.
Now, the Wolf’s got a new pup… he’s pairing up with Leo Augsburger for the Acapulco Major. This duo almost happened earlier in the season, but Lebrón went with experience over chaos. Fast-forward a few defeats later, and suddenly chaos looks pretty damn attractive.
Meanwhile, the “Superpibes” are back! 🧉 Martín Di Nenno and Stupa are reuniting for version 3.0, a nostalgia play that fans have been begging for since their junior days in Argentina. For now, it’s a trial run through year-end, but if they rediscover their old magic, we might just see a full-blown comeback tour in 2026. 👀
Shockwave in Premier Padel! Lebrón and Stupa split, and their new partners are already confirmed
🌍 International Padel Scene 🧩 Playtomic Lets Players Buy a Piece of the Game (🇪🇸)
For the first time ever, Playtomic (the world’s largest racket-sports platform) is letting its 4.7 million players invest and become co-owners. 🤯 With 18,000+ clubs across 66 countries, the app that started as a simple booking tool has quietly become the beating heart of global padel.
The campaign’s running via Crowdcube, giving anyone from Madrid to Miami a shot at becoming a mini–VC of padel. Whether you’re a die-hard player or merely a curious wallflower, this is one of those rare “why just play the game when you can own it?” moments.
🤠 Iconic American Padel Club Expands to Dallas (🇺🇸)
Padel Haus, the cult-favorite NYC-based padel club, is opening a massive 24,000-square-foot facility in Dallas’ Design District in 2026, complete with six indoor courts, a juice bar, and an actual bar. 🍸
Padel Haus already has spots in NYC, Nashville, Atlanta, and Denver, and Dallas will be its seventh location, with 15 more on the roadmap. Founder Santiago Gomez picked the Design District for its creative pulse (and proximity to post-match margaritas at Carbone and the Virgin Hotel). With the U.S. sitting at just ~750 courts versus Spain’s 20,000+, the American padel boom is finally starting to catch up, and Dallas just claimed a front-row seat. Yeehaw!🔥
Move over, pickleball: Fast-growing sport padel is coming to Dallas
🎯 Quick Hits☺️ Bristol Serves Up a Game-Changer (🇬🇧)
Kudos, Bristol! The English city hosted the first-ever LTA-sanctioned deaf and hard-of-hearing padel tournament at Rocket Padel, the UK’s largest indoor padel center. Over 50 players from across the country showed up, proving that accessibility and adrenaline pair beautifully on court.
Community leader Mark Gill called it a breakthrough moment, saying padel gives deaf athletes a platform to shine and inspire others. The event grew out of a government Small Communities Grant, which helped launch Bristol Deaf Padel earlier this year. Organizer Sebastian Cunliffe said it best: “We’ve brought in people who never played sport before, and now they’re hooked.” Proof that padel’s not just the world’s fastest-growing racket sport, it’s also one of its most unifying. 🫶
🥴 “Noisy Padel Courts Could Give Us Diabetes” (🇬🇧)
Only in Britain could three padel courts spark fears of type 2 diabetes. In the Hampshire village of Grateley, locals are up in arms over plans by Pik Leisure to build said indoor courts at the local business park. They’ve filed complaints to the Test Valley Borough Council, arguing that the “gunshot-like” sound of padel balls would ruin their peace… and apparently, their blood sugar levels too. 🙈
One couple, the Cragoe-Murphys (real names, not Black Mirror characters), warned that the sport’s echo could trigger “stress, cardiovascular problems, and metabolic disorders” (lol). Still, the planning officers recommend approval, noting the courts would “benefit the local economy.” So… if you spot a villager with a glucose monitor courtside, just remember, they did warn us ;)
🤩 Cool Padel Court of the Week📍 Buenos Aires, 🇦🇷, where the sidewalk is your front row seat!
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See you next week & keep smashing those volleys 🎾