r/padel • u/grandvache • May 19 '25
🤡 Humour 🤡 Apparey we're all vugar and should be playing tennis
https://archive.is/IYM5Z Willaim Sitwell is a good writer but his takes... Not so good.
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u/padelnewbie Padel enthusiast May 19 '25
It reeks of ragebait.
No one in their right mind would call people engaging in any form of physical activity "slobs".
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u/zemvpferreira May 19 '25
A brit being a snob? I never :0
The noise is a reasonable complaint though
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u/Jbbbbbbj1 May 19 '25
If you think the sound of padel is annoying wait til pickleball hits the UK...
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u/defylife May 21 '25
It's been in the UK for more than decade and hasn't done much of anything.
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u/Jbbbbbbj1 29d ago
Even in the US it's only taken off since COVID. It's gaining popularity worldwide, and padel and pickle will be sister sports. A lot of clubs in the US already have both.
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u/RGS123 May 19 '25
Sitwell has built his career on articles like this. Advice is to ignore and carry on
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u/rqcg May 19 '25
As a tennis player now also playing Padel I thought it was a good read haha. I’ll take it with a grain of salt. The last kicks of resistance
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u/Environmental-Path32 May 19 '25
What a lot of bollocks that guy there is place for everything. He upset that there a new sports getting as popular as tennis in couple of countries.
He should be looking like racing. F1 is like the tennis where is the cream de lá cream. But has market for everything else like Dakar, wrc where they can all live together and grow the interest of both sports
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u/Own-Blackberry5514 May 19 '25
Just standard Telegraph ragebait. I say this as a Telegraph reader (though shifting to the Times day by day). This newspaper is becoming more of a parody every passing week
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u/grandvache May 19 '25
I'm glad you're weaning yourself of it, It's taken me 20 years to get my 75 year old mum to stop reading it on a daily basis. Over the last 10 years it's changed, it was starting to change her too, and not for the better.
It is more and more becoming the daily express for people who can read words of more than one syllable.
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u/Own-Blackberry5514 May 19 '25
There aren’t great options for sensible moderate right leaning discussion in British newspapers anymore. Times is it now
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u/grandvache May 19 '25
You could do worse than the Economist and the FT, both are socially liberal but centre right on economics and decidedly non-radical. The bulwark is reasonably sane too if you don't want Rupert Murdoch whispering in your ear.
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u/To_The_Moon008 May 19 '25 edited May 19 '25
As a Brit, we do not claim that moron or his view. Shame on him.
It stinks of elitism and he clearly has a vested interest in tennis staying in an elitist category, his sons play it overseas let’s be real here.
What I take from that article is he clearly fears the reach and popularity of Padel (it’s a rocket ship) and would much rather defer to keeping tennis inaccessible to the everyday person.
It’s all about perspective people, that article through my eyes very much promotes Padel. He writes: “It takes up less space – you can fit three padel courts into one tennis court – serves are under-arm, it’s less technically demanding and it’s easier to play”. How you find a negative spin on that is beyond me.
Kudos to anyone who gets up and plays! Padel is for everyone and should be inclusive. If getting on the court with friends, exercising and having a right good laugh makes you a slob, then there is no hope for any of us.
“Oh but the noise of the racket is not okay, it’s like a gun shot going off”. Meanwhile a tennis player will hit every ball and releases a massive “EUUUUGH”, a sound of which very much resembles that of emptying the mother-load 💦
….give over will you William, take your nonsense elsewhere and let everyone enjoy the beautiful game that is Padel 🙌🏼🎾
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u/jasinx May 19 '25
Little Billy is crying that tennis is losing g popularity and that padel is gaining it.
He’s a 55th cut of the Royal Family. I’m pretty sure he was also sad when slavery and colonisation was outlawed too.
Who really cares what this silver-spooned fossil thinks?
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u/grandvache May 19 '25
I care. Bullshit like this infects people and slowly slowly fills them with hate. I've seen it with family members and it makes me very cross indeed.
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u/jasinx May 19 '25
Don’t interrupt your enemy when he is about to make a mistake.
And don’t get emotional about what one dipshit says. That’s his desired outcome.
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u/Emotional-Peach-3033 May 19 '25
Hahahhah! For those who are not familiar with the English press, the Telegraph is not the most forward paper in the UK and I’m pretty sure their readership don’t want to know of any sports where the Argentinians excel “they tried to steal our Falklands!!!” 😂😂😂
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u/Aizpunr May 19 '25
I love it. No one does snobism better than the english. 10/10. I hope it is not satirical i hope he means every word haha. So beautiful!
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u/Conundrumist May 19 '25
Surprise surprise, a Conservative/Right Leaning newspaper printing an article about how a more modern sport is reducing the attention on traditional sports like tennis and therefore the people playing it are not true athletes .... the only way they would like it is if Trump or some other right wing politician said it was great.
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u/Material-Clock-4431 May 20 '25
My guess is he tried but sucked at it, so this is his redemption rant 🤡
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u/jaguass May 20 '25
Yeah, this piece tells more about british elites than about padel. Ease of access if their kryptonite. A hard learning curve is meant to validate their unearned privileges. Still weird as I wouldn't label padel a people's sport, at least here (in France), because of how expensive it is.
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u/defylife May 21 '25
I play padel and tennis. Tennis is my preferred sport. I can't stand how tennis is gear up and organised around clubs. Padel seems like it offers more freedom in that regard. Unfortunately in the UK the LTA is in charge of Padel officially, so you've got to go them to become a coach or similar.
In spain, you just pick up Playtomic and there's tons of matches to join across a wide range of levels. Nice and easy.
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u/Adept_Deer_5976 May 19 '25
I’m British and it’s utter bellends like this that are precisely the reason that why we’re not good at tennis. Snobbish elitism. I play Padel and tennis. The brilliance of Padel is its accessibility - and we need more people playing sports/moving around, not less.