Padel

Officially recognised by FISU in 2025, padel , also sometimes called padel tennis, is a racket sport typically played in doubles on an enclosed court slightly smaller than a doubles tennis court. Although padel shares the same scoring system as tennis, the rules, strokes, and technique are different.
Padel was invented in 1969 by Enrique Corcuera in Puerto de Acapulco, Mexico. Enrique, a tennis enthusiast, did not have enough space to build a regular tennis court in his backyard. So he made a smaller version: a 20×10-meter court that he surrounded with a 3-meter wall and a tennis net in between. This was the first padel court in history.