New figures show that 1 million people played padel over the last 12 months in Britain across 1825 courts and 551 venues Padel is one of the fastest growing sports in Britain with new figures released today by the LTA showing that at there are now 1,000,000 adults and juniors playing padel across the country
Entries for this year’s women’s draw at the HSBC Championships confirmed, including eight of world’s top 20 2025 finalist Amanda Anisimova and Jessica Pegula lead the pack, with Victoria Mboko and newly-crowned Madrid Open champion Marta Kostyuk also set to feature at the Queen’s Club Women’s tennis made a historic return to Queen’s last summer
Freya Christie and Eden Silva claimed their first doubles titles since 2024 in Southwest London The British pair defeated fellow Brit Emily Appleton and Slovakian Viktoria Hruncakova Czechia’s rising star Vendula Valdmannova claims women’s singles title Nottingham’s Freya Christie and Essex’s Eden Silva triumphed in the southwest London sunshine to claim the women’s doubles title
Britain’s Alfie Hewett, Gordon Reid, Lucy Shuker and Andy Lapthorne will contest each of Saturday’s men’s, women’s and quad doubles finals at the Cajun Classic, the latest Premier Tier WT1000 event on the 2026 UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour, in Louisiana. Top seeds Hewett and Reid beat De la Puente and Frenchman Stephane Houdet in Friday’s
Toby Samuel made it back-to-back ATP Challenger Tour titles and Esther Adeshina won her first professional singles crown during another outstanding weekend for Team Bath Tennis. In-form Samuel didn’t drop a set as he won the men’s singles title in Hersonissos, Greece for a second successive week, defeating Czechia’s Maxim Mrva 6-2 6-3 in the
Brits claim three out of four available titles on offer at joint ITF W35/M25 tennis event at Graves Tennis Centre in Sheffield Harry Wendelken wins men’s singles, Emile Hudd and Anton Matusevich claim men’s doubles crown, and Amelia Rajecki and Lauryn John-Baptiste win women’s doubles Amelia Rajecki also reaches final of women’s singles, but falls
Lucas de Gouveia and Lucy Foyster became the latest players on the LTA’s Wheelchair Performance Pathway National Age Group Programmes to win junior wheelchair titles at a Grand Slam, as they and their respective partners claimed the boys’ doubles and girls’ doubles titles at the Australian Open. Fifteen-year-old De Gouveia, who made his Grand Slam
The LTA has announced the appointment of Malgorzata Grzyb to the LTA Board as Chair of the Development Tennis Advisory Group (DTAG). Malgorzata replaces Nigel Jordan in the position and will commence her three-year term on the 1st of January. The DTAG acts as an advisory forum for the Executive of the LTA on identified strategic
ATP Challenger events in Nottingham and Glasgow to open LTA’s 2026 Performance Competitions Calendar International and domestic competitions available for British players from 11U to Pro level 2025 saw more than 40 unique international professional titles won by British players as part of the calendar The first half of the LTA’s 2026 Performance Competitions Calendar
British number five Abigail Tordoff claims second LTA Padel British Tour title of 2025 at Rocket Padel Ilford Second seeds Tordoff and partner Ainhoa Rico from Spain defeated third seeds Laura Jackson and Rosie Quirk Louie Harris and Chris Salisbury finish runners-up in men’s draw Abigail Tordoff claimed her second LTA Padel British Tour title of
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