[borroka]

Racquet sports and fitness trends come and go. When I was a kid, decades ago, squash was niche but well known, kids like me and my friends spent hours playing variations of table tennis, "pelota" was a cheap game with made-up rules ("tedesca" was another one, but on the soccer field, some of my older compatriots might remember), and "aerobics" was trendy in the few gyms that operated at the time. Tennis always had a hard core group of participants, and padel is nowadays, by far, the most popular racquet sports in latin or latin-adjacent countries.