In this issue
Nine pieces. Free in full.
The complete first issue — read any of it, end to end.
From the Editor
Three Days in Barcelona
A dispatch from the Padel World Summit, and what it told me about the publication you are holding.
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The Court
The Next Diamond in the Rough
Everyone is looking at the United States this summer. Three markets nobody is watching are the more interesting bet.
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The Court
Mixed everywhere but the top
The mixed pair is the most ordinary thing in club padel and the rarest at the top of it. A look at why.
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The Coastline
A Villa Called the Alborán
Gili Air, a villa that shares the name, a Sasak kitchen we returned to, and a padel court on a coral island.
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The Terrace
Barcelona, by way of Gràcia
We went to Barcelona for the Summit and stayed in Gràcia for the breakfast. On Cal Boter and the fork breakfast.
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The Archive
A machine for leisure
How the Marbella Club manufactured the Costa del Sol, and why our story begins here even though the game did not.
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The Archive
Pádel vs paddle: the missing letter
How an English word lost a letter and became a Spanish sport.
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The Sport You Can Play at Seventy
The first column from The Body — on why movement is not a project for later.
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The Sessions
Episode One · George Modler
Filmed at the Padel World Summit in Barcelona, with George Modler of the Padel Directory.
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