Notes from
the baseline.
Honest arena reviews, coach spotlights, camp guides and data-driven city comparisons — everything we learn running padel across the Baltics.
How a padel club attracts new players
You can buy the first visit. You cannot buy the second one: it depends on whether a newcomer finds three people at their level next Thursday. A practical guide to what happens in between.
GuidePadel levels from D to A: how to find yours
The scale has nine bands, not four, and behind every letter sits a number recalculated after every result. What each band looks like on court, how to find yours in four games, and why a number beats a guess.
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Padel etiquette: the unwritten court rules
Padel at club level has no umpire, so four players negotiate every call, every warm-up and every ball themselves. The conventions nobody tells you — and what breaking them actually costs.
Where you can actually get a padel lesson in Lithuania
176 coaches, 38 clubs out of 74. Which Lithuanian padel arenas list a coach and which list none — and why the distance to your nearest court says almost nothing about the distance to your nearest coach.
Padel Viber groups in Lithuania
33 public padel Viber and WhatsApp groups, 58,055 memberships, 10 cities. We counted every padel chat group in the country: how many there are, where, how big — and which clubs still have no community of their own.
Padel in Lithuania in numbers
330 courts, 78 arenas, 26 cities, 183 coaches and 49 tournaments. The annual report on padel in Lithuania: where the courts are, how many sit under a roof, when they are busy, and how many there are per head of population.