In this issue
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From the Editor
Credentials
This month we start reporting from inside the game, with the press passes to prove it.
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The Terrace
The Bottle My Friend Translated
A £16 Sicilian red chosen for a Sicilian friend, who turned the bottle to the light and told the story of the town buried in Burri's white concrete.
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The Court
The Racket Roulette
An intermediate player, briefly without his racket, sets out to find whether he can tell one from another.
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The Court
The 7 P's of the Southside
Padel, Pickleball, Pilates, Pastries, Patience, People and Pato: the seven P's of a Castlemilk club built for its members, where the numbers said not to.
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The year it became an institution
There is a difference between a game people play and a sport a body governs. For padel, the second began in 1991.
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The Coastline
Bilbao Knows How to Wait
We went to Bilbao in the last week of January without a real plan to play padel. We never did, and that turned out to be the point.
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The Body
The Groundwork
The body is the thing you bring to the court, and it plays better for a little work done away from the game.
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The B Side
The companion to the podcast: Alex sits longer with the people he has been speaking to.
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