South Yorkshire Joins The Padel Craze with SGI’s Padel Court Set to Open in 2022
The Scarborough Group International (SGI) is set to build South Yorkshire’s first dedicated Padel Tennis facilities at Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park, enhancing the Park’s recreational options and strengthening its health and wellness focus.
The courts are set to be installed by 2022. An exciting time for the padel community as the sport’s fame also reaches global heights.
As part of SGI’s development agreement with Sheffield City Council, three Padel Tennis courts will be erected alongside the all-weather, professional 3G football surface now under construction at the Community Stadium.
With walls of reinforced glass, an artificial grass playing field, and floodlighting to facilitate nighttime sports, the courts will be constructed to the most excellent standard.
If you’re new to padel here’s everything you need to know:
One of Europe’s fastest-growing grassroots sports, padel, was invented in Mexico in the 1960s and now has more than 20 million players in 30 nations.
On a court around one-third the size of a standard tennis court, it is played in doubles. Faster than squash, but with the same scoring system as tennis, this game is a lot of fun for both players and spectators.
Check out this video to see how the game is played:
There are 123 Padel Tennis courts in the United Kingdom. Just three of them are in Yorkshire — Harrogate, Bradford, and Huddersfield. With the help of SGI Chairman Kevin McCabe, the group’s projects, including Thorpe Park Leeds and Middlewood Locks in Salford, will be equipped with courts.
Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park aims to become a world-class community for health, wellness, sport, and activity that we are proud to be a part of. The owner casually mentioned an empty spot in the Community Stadium they’re presently building. They decided to fill it with a few Padel Tennis courts.
Someone’s newfound hobby is a blessing to the Yorkshire community! People in South Yorkshire will now have access to a superb community facility for Padel fans of all ages and abilities.
More than a dozen notable organizations, including the English Institute for Sport Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University’s Advanced Wellbeing Research Center and National Center of Excellence for Food Engineering, are already located in the Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park.
An 80-acre zone of Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park is being developed by SGI and Legacy Park Ltd with a master plan for 850,000 square feet of the workplace and accompanying amenities.
For now, the Community Stadium has already been built, and SGI hopes to unveil its plans for the Park’s center in coming months, including an Enterprise Center that will help start-up and developing firms in the health, wellness, sport, and activity industries.
