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Should Padel be an indoor or outdoor sport?

35 commentsu/wazzaron1w ago

A lot of comments were raised during the Cancun P2 tournament regarding the windy conditions and how it significantly affected the matches, do you think the sport would benefit more by being an indoor or outdoor sport? Or maybe remain as both? I feel the sport works best with both provided the tournament scheduling accounts for playable weather conditions and venues can provide indoor contingencies to account for any unexpected events that deem outdoors to be unplayable. [View Poll](https://www.reddit.com/poll/1s1uw6p)

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u/[deleted]1w ago

Outdoors is so much fun when the weathers good!

u/bachaterol1w ago

I think just because of this one incident, banning outdoor tournaments would be extreme. However, it helps to enforce some stricter regulations regarding weather conditions and safety measures. It would also help to have backup courts indoor like in some tennis tournaments but finding facilities that offer both indoor and outdoor courts at the same venue is difficult but not unachievable. FIP enforcing regulations regarding this for Premier tournaments could encourage upcoming tournament organisers to build or find venues more suitable.

u/Professional_Cap_2851w ago

Both unless you talk about professional circuit. Then only indoor

u/zemvpferreira1w ago

Mostly outdoor for me, preferably in non-tropical climates. It helps balance the smashes, it looks much nicer and I love the huge lobs. I will happily trade a little precision and the occasional weather stoppage for that.

u/1092671w ago

Outdoor people can book the Outdoor Courts instead of hogging up half of the Indoor Courts in the Summer!