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Pablo Carro

  • Padel: Britain now third biggest market in world for rising racquet sport

    Sport Business

    Britain is now one of the top three padel markets in the world by revenue, fuelled by new club openings and ever-increasing demand for court bookings. Data from racquet sports booking app Playtomic reveals that only clubs in the long-established hotspots of Spain and Italy generate more money than those in Britain.  In addition, Britain [...]

    Britain's padel clubs are behind only Spain and Italy for revenue generated, says Playtomic
  • How Playtomic surfed – and fuelled – tidal wave of interest in padel

    Sport Business

    The platform now boasts 1.4m active users in Europe, up 40 per cent on last year.

    Pablo Carro is a co-founder of Playtomic, the court booking app that has capitalised on the padel boom

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