Sandy Farquharson says professional padel players call lets and admit net touches even in tight matches, something she never saw in her tennis career. The sport's integrity matters as it grows globally.
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So first of all, watch it live if you can. If not, watch it on your screen. You get to listen to the commentary, which is obviously an added bonus, but there's also— you get to see the atmosphere of how it's played, and you get little things like you see the sportsmanship between the players. Like, if they're not sure and it is a tight match, it's an important point, they still will play a let, or they will own up if they've touched the net, or if they think the ball is out. And that's something that I didn't experience in tennis. I played junior tennis, college tennis, pro tennis, and I didn't experience that at all, if I'm honest. Um, but in padel, I've experienced it the whole way. Like, when I've gone and trained with the top players and we've played matches, or if I played a World Padel Tour back in the day, or, uh, you know, FIT matches now, like, if players aren't sure, they, they play a let. And that's one area of the game I hope we really keep, even if it gets internationalized. I hope You know, we keep that honesty, that sportsmanship within the game. So that, that's a really important part. And you see that live. If you watch that live, we watch it on the TV, you get to see that.