Wolverhampton sports club unveils plans to make room for fast-growing padel tennis
A Wolverhampton tennis club has revealed new plans to install padel courts.
Wolverhampton Lawn Tennis and Squash Club is the latest city sport centre to introduce the racket sport which is played on enclosed courts slightly smaller in size than tennis courts.
Bosses want to install three new padel tennis courts at the site in Newbridge Crescent, Newbridge.
Two existing grass tennis courts would be replaced with three new roofed courts as part of plans submitted to Wolverhampton Council.
The growing sport, which is a mix of squash and tennis, was invented in Mexico in the late 1960s. It is played in doubles on an enclosed court about a third the size of a tennis court and uses the same scoring system.
