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Racket & paddle

Padel

Glass-walled doubles, the fastest growing racket sport in Europe.

Padel level0.5–72–4 playersCourtNeeds real-match testing

How a game is set up

Formats, length and resource

Formats

  • Doubles
  • Singles
  • Americano

Typical length

60 / 90 / 120 minutes

Resource booked

Court

Scoring

sets — e.g. 6-4, 3-6, 7-5

Equipment

  • Padel rackets
  • Pressurised balls
  • Court marker

Typical venues

  • Padel club
  • Sports centre
  • Hotel

Physical layer

Venue's own infrastructure — Venue's own courts. Meet Your Match supplies the court QR/NFC marker only.

How skill is estimated

Padel level

Range

0.5 – 7

Method

Team strength from both partners' pre-match estimates; a surprise winner moves further than an expected one.

What we capture

Set scores, entered once, confirmed by the opposing side.

How it updates

Each side's estimate is the pair's average; players move on the gap between the result and what was expected, faster while uncertain.

First games

First three eligible confirmed unhandicapped matches are provisional; casual counts at lower weight.

Placement question

Which best describes your padel experience? — new to padel / can keep basic rallies going / confident using the walls and the net / experienced competitive play.

Honesty about the number

What this rating is, and what it isn't

Where no universal amateur scale exists, MeetYourMatch says so rather than inventing one.

Benchmark

Recreational padel levels (0.5–7.0), familiar units only

Displayed in the units recreational players already talk in. It is not a Playtomic level and no conversion to one has been measured.

Open decisions

Starting levels per answer are unsettled, and the prototype bounds 0–7 rather than the intended 0.5 floor.

Status: Needs real-match testing.

Handicap: Agreed allowance

Points of start, agreed by both pairs before play — never applied automatically.

Manual, mutually accepted allowance only. No verified rating-gap-to-points mapping exists, so none is offered.

What it costs to play

Illustrative MeetYourMatch service fee for Padel: £6.30 per player, against a planned average of £4.50 per player per game.

The MeetYourMatch service fee covers matchmaking and booking coordination. Each player pays their own. The approved assumption is an average of £4.50 per player per game; actual per-game and per-city rates are still to be set, and the amounts shown here are illustrative demo prices. Anything the venue charges — table or court time, any minimum spend — is separate from this fee.

Illustrative price · not final

Where it could be played

Example venues for Padel

Example venue profiles · not live listings

Shepherd's Bush Padel Club

Padel club · Shepherd's Bush

Six panoramic padel courts beside the flyover, floodlit until midnight.

Hackney Wick Sportshub

Sports centre · Hackney Wick

Six tournament tables, two pickleball courts and a rooftop padel deck.

Battersea Riverside Courts

Riverside club · Battersea

Riverside courts with lights, showers and a very forgiving crowd.

How venues & hosts fit in
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