This Week in Padel: 15–21 June 2026

British padel enjoyed a busy week away from the pro tour’s glare. With Premier Padel pausing between its Valencia and Valladolid stops, the spotlight fell firmly on the home game — and it delivered: an all-British final in the Channel Islands, an uplifting grassroots story from Yorkshire, and a fresh reminder of just how big the sport has become in Britain. Here’s your round-up of UK padel for the week ending Sunday 21 June 2026.

British Players on Tour

The week’s standout home result came from the LTA Padel British Tour Grade 1 NSM & SPF Cup at Guernsey Racquet Club, where Victoria Nicholas claimed her first tournament win since becoming a mum. Partnering Alice Keddie, the fifth seeds came through an all-British women’s final against compatriots Chloe De La Mare and Rosie Quirk — De La Mare playing in front of her home crowd — to win 7–6(4), 6–3. “It was great to finally win one in beautiful Guernsey,” said Nicholas, whose partnership with Keddie has been building steadily all season.

There was British interest in the men’s final too, where second seeds Rio Hanif and Michael Tolman pushed Spain’s Jose Domingo Martinez and Manuel Valcarcel Sanchez before going down 6–4, 6–2. The Guernsey event — the third of seven Grade 1 stops on the 2026 British Tour, which spans England, Scotland and the Channel Islands — drew almost 150 players across eight age categories from under-14 to 60+, with around 40 travelling to the island. It was another sign of how deep the domestic competitive scene now runs.

Grassroots & Community

The most heart-warming story of the week came from North Yorkshire. The Yorkshire Unshakeables — a Harrogate-based team whose members all live with Parkinson’s disease, and who train weekly at Harrogate Spa Tennis Club — travelled to the Parkinson’s Nordic Open at the KIF Padel Club in southern Denmark, competing alongside players from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Belgium. Roger Fayle and Rosemary Knox took silver in the Category B draw, while 82-year-old Neville Farmer was singled out for the energy and humour he brought to the trip.

“We don’t just play padel — we prove what’s possible,” said the team’s talisman, Tommy Leong, who described the trip as “a wonderful immersive experience.” It is a vivid example of how far padel’s reach now extends in Britain — a point underlined by the LTA’s latest figures, which put participation at one million adults and juniors playing across 1,825 courts and 551 venues nationwide. With so many people picking up the sport for the first time, our guides to the best padel rackets and the best padel shoes for UK players are a good place to start.

Clubs & the Bigger Picture

On the club scene, The Padel Paper ran a feature this week making the case for Manchester as the UK’s padel capital, pointing to the city’s dense and still-growing cluster of clubs — among them The Padel Club at TraffordCity — as evidence that the north-west has become one of the country’s busiest padel hubs. It is fitting timing, too: Manchester also hosts one of the season’s big set-piece occasions next weekend.

The Week Ahead

The end of June gets busy for British padel. On Saturday 27 June, Manchester stages the BPA Cupra Cup, the tournament tied to the British Padel Awards 2026 and powered by Fast4Padel — a celebration of the people, clubs and coaches driving the sport’s growth. Looking a little further ahead, all roads still lead to August and the historic London P1, Britain’s first-ever Premier Padel event, which will bring the world’s leading players to the capital for the first time. After a quieter week, the calendar is about to heat up again.

Sources

• The Padel Paper — First post-partum win for Victoria Nicholas in Guernsey
• The Padel Paper — Yorkshire Unshakeables revel in Parkinson’s Nordic Open in Denmark
• The Padel Paper — Why Manchester is the UK’s padel capital
• LTA Padel — 1,000,000 padel players in Britain
• British Padel Awards 2026 — BPA Cupra Cup