Millions of Americans just got their answer to “what is padel” — and Victor Perez was one of the experts who gave it to them.
POPSUGAR, one of the most widely read lifestyle and sports media platforms in the United States, published a feature answering the question that more and more people are typing into Google: what is padel? Victor joined Julien Wortelboer of Ultra Club Miami and Scott Colebourne of the United States Padel Association to break it down for a U.S. audience that is only now beginning to discover the sport.
The timing matters. North America is arguably the world’s most important emerging padel market right now. Investors are moving in, clubs are opening, and media platforms with tens of millions of readers are publishing primers on the sport. When POPSUGAR wants to explain what padel is to their audience, they call people who have actually built it — not just played it.
That is precisely what makes this feature significant for VPP. Victor has not built his reputation on the court. Instead, he has built it in markets where padel did not exist — developing federations from scratch, building club operations systems, and advising investors entering the sport across 10+ countries on 3 continents. Being named among the top ten padel coaches worldwide by a major U.S. publication is a reflection of that track record.
Furthermore, this kind of international visibility reinforces something we have always believed: padel’s next phase of growth will not come from the markets that already know the sport. It will come from the markets that are just discovering it — and from the specialists willing to build it properly from the ground up.
That is the work Victor Perez Padel does. And increasingly, the world is paying attention.
Read the full POPSUGAR article: Pickleball vs. Padel: What You Need to Know