Padel Evolution began with a holiday in Portugal in the summer of 2025. The six of us, all in our early twenties and all born and raised in Sudbury, tried padel for the very first time, and we were instantly hooked. The game was fast, social, competitive, and unbelievably fun. By the end of the trip, we were playing every day and already talking about how we couldn’t wait to keep playing once we got back home to England.
But when we returned, reality hit. The nearest padel courts were at least a 45‑minute drive away, and every single one was constantly fully booked. We couldn’t believe that a sport growing this quickly, one of the fastest‑expanding sports in Europe, had no presence in the place we’d grown up.
So we had a crazy idea:
If Sudbury didn’t have padel… why couldn’t we be the ones to bring it here?
What started as a holiday obsession turned into a mission. We began researching courts, locations, construction, and everything needed to build a proper padel facility for our hometown. The more we learned, the more determined we became to create something new for the community, a place where anyone could discover the sport that had grabbed us so quickly.
Padel Evolution is the result of that spark. A group of young adults, a summer holiday, a sport we fell in love with, and a shared belief that Sudbury deserves to be part of padel’s incredible rise.
And this is just the beginning.