Sandy FarquharsonFounder at The Padel School | Elevating Padel Players' Performance

The best players don't just play - they reflect

20 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief on‑court interview at the Advantage Cup held at Padel Social Club in London, host Sandy Farquharson asks a player (Speaker B) about how elite padel competitors prepare for matches. The player explains that they spend considerable time before a match reviewing video footage to identify both strong and weak shots, and they continuously analyze opponents throughout the competition. After each match they record observations and improvement points in a personal match journal, using it to track progress and refine strategies. The conversation highlights the importance of ongoing reflection, video analysis, and systematic note‑taking as core components of high‑level padel performance.

I've just arrived here at Padel Social Club in London for the Advantage Cup. It's going to be a fun day of clinics. There's going to be a pro-am, some fun on court. Let's see who we can speak to. When you play the top 10 players, the top players, what do you look for at the start of the match to see how you're going to play?
I fix, I fix too much time before to play the match to see the good shots and the bad shots. Do you watch video?
Like you watch videos and watch matches?
All the time videos, and after my matches against them, I, I do the— I write in a, in a book the things that I can improve and the things that I think I do better to beat them.
So you use like a journal, like a match journal?
Yes. Yeah. What is analizar? Like analyze. Analyze. Okay. I analyze all the time. So it's not only at the, at the start of the matches, it's all the time.
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