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Rans Tiafoe is ranked no. 17 In the world in a man in tennis and twice he reached semifinals in the open US, so it might be hard to imagine a 27-year-old American man to fight the racket. This year. But that is exactly what happened when Tiafoe first tried the fell, while in Spain, because Madrid was opened and as he still played weeks, sometimes against sports professionals.
“It’s actually pretty hard to be good at, even for former tennis players or current tennis players,” Tiafoe remembered. “I was awful compared to them.”
However, the steep learning curve did not diminish its enthusiasm for sports, hybrid between tennis and zucchini, which is played in the glass protection and growing rapidly in Europe. And while the Padel (traditionally pronounced Pah-part, “he is often talked at the English countries) currently about 100,000 recreational players in the United States, believes that Tiafoe considered a sport combination of athletics and strategy.
On Tuesday, the New York Atlantic of the two-year old Padel League announced the addition of Tiafoe as a strategic advisor and investor, with approximately 3.3% of the franchise share. Tiafoe-who wrote a check and is not simply gifted in equity, as is the case with athleting partnership – a wider 3 million dollar funding, which also includes investments from Maarten Paesa FC Dallas and former professional tennis player Gordon Uehling. Atlantic agreement worth more than 10 million dollars, worse than fees for $ 200,000 that franchises had to pay to join the League 2023. Years.
“New York is obviously the largest market in sports for anything,” Tiafoe says. “So that was without a brainer.”
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League Pro Padel has launched with seven teams throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico and spread to ten-including Atlantic-last year. The schedule of this season includes in October Championships in October and employs a franchise format, which organizes individual style competitions, organizing an individual style competition, organizing individual competitions in the style, which organizes individual competitions Style, which organizes individual-stylistic competitions similar to most tournament tennis tournament.
In this point, Pro Padel League has not published its income, but has long-term sponsorship arrangements with an adidas and equipment manufacturer, as well as sponsors specific to events involving Ford and the hotelplanner. The PPL also has 13 media rights within 100 countries and six continents, except that broadcasts its events at the Youtube, and the League receives a fee of some of these broadcasts, unlike the broadcast.
Although not profitable yet, PPL requested interesting capitalists, with the capital of the left strip and Gary Vainchuk among investors who participated in the league to 10 million funding for funding in March.
“When we started PPL, you would all ask us a pretty:” Are you talking about Pickuleill? “” Says Mike Dorfman, the General Manager of the League. “And we don’t get that question anymore.”
This confusion is understandable as Pickleball drove a racket sports bloom in the United States, it was estimated that 19.8 million Americans played that sport, and in the agency, according to the Marketing Agency, according to the Marketing Agency, according to the Marketing Agency, according to the Marketing Agency, according to the Marketing Agency, according to the Marketing Agency, according to the Marketing Agency, according to the Marketing Agency, according to the Marketing Agency, according to the Marketing Agency, according to the Marketing Agency, according to the Marketing Agency. And at a professional level, Pickuleball Major League recently added Palm Beach Royals as a solution team for 2026. Year, while in Los Angeles, Ludi drops this month sold most roles in evaluation of $ 13 million.
But Pickleball uses a slower ball – who made popular among American seniors – and does not contain the game of external walls, among other differences in its rules and equipment. “I think Pickleball is a joke,” Tiafoe says, adding, “The level of hardship is about zero. That’s why everyone wants to go and play.”
With its faster pace, the Padel won over fans abroad. Sports now has more than 30 million players around the world, more than eight million in 2018. years, for two rounds, and more than 14,500 people attended the semifinals of the professional tournament in Barcelona in December. Then, in May, an event in Argentina was appointed a one-day record on attendance for the Padel with more than 16,000 fans.
The US added 352 Padel Courts in 2024. – More than doubling of 227, and the Copp’s Copp Station “in the USA” also encourages optimism is the values of the sports team wider, with prices in four main North American Pro League They climb more than 1,700% in the last 27 years.
However, the sports world is located with the pop-up leagues that fail. The USFL was known to tried professional football fans in the 1980s with spring schedule, new rules, growing stars and rich owners, including Donald Trump. After trying to stop the autumn and lawsuit who led Trump against NFL, the league stopped operating in 1986. years. The track record is even worse in more niches of sports. Hockey Roller, for example, initiated in 1993. and folded five years later After expanding too quickly, cannibalizing its national sponsorships and loses its ESPN TV agreement. In the meantime, two tall American women’s football players were collapsed Before NVSL finally took over.
From the Wall: New York Atlantic and other teams in Pro Padel League play hybrid tennis and squash, with allowed players to hit the ball from the glass that was suddenly boiled.
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If PPL will succeed in the competitive American market, the League will have to establish a culture around sports, Dani Dios, director in the Group Padel at the Talent WME Sports agency. “I believe the PPL is a more long recording because it requires fans to know who the pro players are and where they” add. “While fans do not ask questions in the process, you will always have a limited fan.”
It is an area where Tiafoe can add value, as the first active ATP torne member for a partner with PPL team. And while he has about a million followers on Facebook, Instagram and X (earlier Twitter), FC Dallas’ Paes brings an even greater fan base, with more than doubled that audience at Instagram only.
“I think there is a great value – add to a growing sport here in the US and to receive eyeballs,” says the 27-year-old Dutch goalkeeper Forbes.
Atlantic will, of course, benefit from the financial contribution of Tiafoe and Paes, with plans for using money to finance players, operational costs and marketing activities in the field of New York.
Tiafoe knows that it might take a significant return to his investment – probably longer than three to five years, he could expect a start to the Startup technique, he is not in cash in cash, thanks to $ 15.2 million in the past 12.2m dollars Ninth best sign in professional tennis.
Even with that financial success and no matter what its role, the sports franchise perspective is exciting for Tiafoe, who spent most of his childhood he spent in the Faculty’s Non-Professional Center, Maryland, where his father worked as a guardian.
“Man, what kind of sleep,” he says. “It’s really humbly.”
