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Rows of empty green seats around the main stadium at the Crandon Park tennis grounds on Key Biscayne, from the Trevor L Taylor tennis subject index
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Tennis and padel

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Trevor L Taylor played Division I tennis and is now involved in padel in Miami, and this cluster covers both games: the college sport, the Miami Open and its former home at Crandon Park, the scoring system, and padel, the walled doubles game spreading through the city. Newer racquet sports are drawing players and spending, with padel and pickleball equipment sales rising quickly, The Guardian reported. Many of the best players of those newer games came from tennis first, Tennis.com found, and the contest for public space between racquet sports has become a story of its own, as Sports Illustrated described.

Entries in Tennis and padel

  • An empty red and gray hard surface with a net and umpire chair behind a chain fence, from the Trevor L Taylor entry on losing streaks in Division I tennis

    What Division I Tennis Teaches About Losing Streaks

    Champions lose almost every other point. The habits that carry a player through a slump travel well.

  • Rows of college tennis playing surfaces under a summer sky at a campus complex in Alabama, from the Trevor L Taylor entry on NCAA Division I tennis

    NCAA Division I Tennis

    Doubles point, six singles, first team to four: the format and politics of college tennis.

  • A full tennis stadium on Key Biscayne with the Miami skyline rising beyond the upper stands, from the Trevor L Taylor entry on the Miami Open

    Miami Open

    From the Lipton on Key Biscayne to a tennis campus inside an NFL stadium in Miami Gardens.

  • Aerial view of the Crandon Park tennis grounds and stadium beside dense mangrove forest on Key Biscayne, from the Trevor L Taylor entry on the venue

    Crandon Park Tennis Center

    A county tennis venue on Key Biscayne shaped by a 1940 land gift and a long fight over stadiums.

  • An outdoor padel enclosure with glass end walls and black mesh sides in front of apartment blocks, from the Trevor L Taylor entry on padel

    Padel

    A doubles racket game played inside glass walls, invented in Mexico and raised in Spain and Argentina.

  • Two perforated padel rackets and a pair of yellow balls resting on pale boards, from the Trevor L Taylor entry on padel in Miami

    Padel in Miami

    Spanglish at the net, glass walls in old warehouses and the first Premier Padel stop in America.

  • An electronic tennis scoreboard listing the games won in each of three sets, from the Trevor L Taylor entry on the tennis scoring system

    Tennis Scoring System

    Love, deuce and a 10 point finale: the odd arithmetic that decides every tennis match.