The Archive · Issue Four
The First Glass Court
The histories of the game date Jorge Galeotti's demountable glass court to 1989. His own account implies a first showing no earlier than 1991.
Read the piece →Issue Four · 6th October 2026 · free in full
A padel publication, born from the coast of southern Spain.
Issue Four begins an investigation into what happened to padel in Sweden, goes back to Jorge Galeotti's demountable glass court, reads the public record of Carolina Navarro, and sits down to dinner in Nerja.
"What he does not give is the year, though the order of his telling narrows it."From The Archive · Issue Four
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From the Editor
Starting With Sweden
This month we begin an investigation into what happened to padel in Sweden, and we would like your help with it.
Read →The Court
Palas de madera, pistas de muro
Carolina Navarro, born in Málaga in 1976, played her last professional match in Acapulco, where the game began. A reading of the public record.
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The Terrace
Two Covers in Nerja
Dinner for two, early in the evening.
Read →The Sessions · Episode Four
Padel Drive
Alex Robinson's guest is Gonzalo Lorenzo, founder of Padel Drive, a padel coaching and content brand.
Listen →The Circuit · latest edition · №12
Fernandez and Calvo Beat Sanchez and Ustero in Dusseldorf
Claudia Fernandez and Martina Calvo won Sunday's final of the P2 in Dusseldorf 6-3, 6-0, seven days after the pair they beat won in Rotterdam. The P1 in Milan opens today.
Read Edition №12 →The Premise
There is no English-language publication for padel that takes the game seriously as culture: its origins, its rituals, the coast it came from. We're building one.
The Alborán is a padel lifestyle publication, out now and free in full. We cover court culture and the things that surround it: the food after the match, the travel, the people who built the game in Spain, the music played in the clubhouse at six in the evening.
The publication is named for a stretch of coastline that points at North Africa: the Alborán Sea, 36.07° N, 3.99° W. The westernmost reach of the Mediterranean. The water beside which the first padel courts in Europe were drawn out, in 1974.
You don't have to play padel to read it. You probably should anyway.
Edited by Andy Galt and Alex Robinson. Published from Bristol and the coast.
Issue Four begins an investigation into what happened to padel in Sweden, goes back to Jorge Galeotti's demountable glass court, reads the public record of Carolina Navarro, and sits down to dinner in Nerja.
ISSN 3153-7235. Alborán Social Club Ltd, registered in England and Wales. Company number 17196913.
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