New padel courts win approval

CLUB TO BUILD THREE MORE

- By DANIEL HODGSON

A MARTON tennis venue can increase its provision of padel courts, following council approval.

Tennis World, which has two padel courts, has been allowed to build an additional three, which will see one of the existing outside tennis courts removed to make way for the new, smaller, covered courts.

The plans are for carpet-laid synthetic grass courts, each in their own roofed enclosure, with up to 13 hours of play a day.

Padel is a rapidly growing racket sport, not to be confused with pickleball. Padel involves aspects of tennis and squash, with a tennis-like court enclosed by walls that the ball can be played off, similar to squash.

Rackets are stringless and the rules vary from tennis.

The Marton club's website outlines that two fully covered padel courts were built in 2018 and this was when Middlesbrough Padel Club “was born”.