The Alborán
Issues
The monthly publication, free to read in full. Every issue, end to end.
The debut issue
Issue One
Where it begins: the Alborán Sea and the game's origins, a villa on Gili Air, Barcelona by way of Gràcia, and the Marbella club where padel took root.
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August 2026
Issue Two
From a padel club in Castlemilk to a winter weekend in Bilbao, by way of a Sicilian bottle and the game's 1991 turning point.
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September 2026
Issue Three
A padel club five months old in Govan, an international testing pool being built at eight athletes, two rooms in Madrid five minutes apart, and the wall that was there eight centuries before padel found it.
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October 2026
Issue Four
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.
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