FIP counts 1,160 US padel courts. Misitrano counts 1,112. The 48-court gap between them is the real news in the World Padel Report, and it is good news.

Bloomberg put a number on it: investors have poured $300 million into UK padel, and the bubble may be bursting. What the operators added in the comments, what happened in Sweden, and the one question I'm asking about who's actually making the math work.

Four indoor pickleball clubs. Four states. All listed at exactly $1.5 million. Then the financials went public.

Field of Dreams got it wrong. Mike Knowles and Luke Wade break down why growth fails, why data beats gut feel, and why the facilities winning right now are the ones with a real brand, not just courts.

I played Andre Agassi at twelve years old and watched him answer with six-love, six-love. Now he is building a pickleball and padel platform that could reshape racquet sports facilities and coaching. Here is what operators need to know.

I'm joining Facility Ally as Head of Growth, working alongside Inside the Lines Advisory to bring the same growth discipline to operators across tennis, pickleball, and padel.

The racquet sports boom isn't just about building more courts. Four structural pressures, real estate, systems, staffing, and revenue mix, are reshaping how multi-sport facilities actually operate.

SMASH 2026's full schedule at AB Show just went live. Here's what's new, who's already on the floor, and why this could be the most important event for anyone building in padel before 2027.

The Wall Street Journal just covered padel's U.S. boom. What they didn't report: the country has exactly two people certified to coach the sport at the elite level, and that gap is going to decide who survives the next three years.

That 365-day chart is the picture worth keeping. Look at it: flat line for nine months, then starting in April — nine spikes in ten weeks, each one an issue, and the peaks getting taller. 720 subscribers, 34,000 impressions, 4,000 article views, all of it built since spring. That is not a viral moment. That is a compounding asset. And here is the pattern inside the spikes worth noticing: Issues 08 and 09 are your two tallest peaks, back to back. The newsletter is not plateaui

Tennis, pickleball, and padel are not converging because the industry is enlightened. They are being forced together by economics — and fighting it the whole way. Here is the mid-year conclusion nobody else is publishing.

The 2026 Global Padel Report classifies the U.S. as a Diamond in the Rough — early-stage, fragmented, and highly price sensitive. Here's what that actually means if you're building something in this market, from someone who was in the room in Barcelona when the report dropped.

A week ago today I was standing in an empty convention hall in Barcelona before anyone else arrived. Three months ago this business did not exist. I left a job I loved at the Racquet Sports Professionals Association because I believed this industry was about to go through something I needed to be part of. I took a chance. No clients. No track record as a founder. No guarantee anyone would care. That Monday I walked into Fira Gran Via with Michel Gogniat, the Managing Director

The global padel industry is preparing for its biggest moment of the year. Here's what I'll be watching at the Padel World Summit — and what it means for the U.S. market.

The operators who win the next five years in racquet sports aren't thinking about courts. They're thinking about decisions — which sport to add, when to move, and what to stop doing.

Racquet sports compensation data just got its first independent benchmark. Here's what the ARA's 2025 report reveals about director pay, club size, and where the gaps still exist.

The 2026 global racquet sports participation data is out. Here's what it actually means for tennis, padel, and pickleball operators, investors, and brands navigating the U.S. market right now.

The International Padel Cluster just named its first U.S. International Development Partner. Here's why that matters — and what it means for American companies serious about where padel is headed.

The International Padel Cluster has appointed Mike Knowles of Inside the Lines Advisory as U.S. International Development Partner — one of the first two partners appointed globally.

Anthropic interviewed over 80,000 people across 159 countries about what they want from AI — and what they fear. HR leaders are citing it. Educators are citing it. Nobody in racquet sports has touched it. Here's what it means for the decisions you're making right now.