Padel was first played in 1965 in Acapulco, Mexico, when multi-millionaire Don Enrique Corcuera wanted to build a tennis court behind his house but had too little space. This is how the shape of the padel court came about. The first court in Europe was built in Marbella, Spain, in 1968, from there the padel sport first found its way to Argentina, where the first courts were built in 1970 in the famous "Ocean Club" in Mar del Plata. Today, an estimated 6 million players play on over 40,000 courts in Argentina.

In Spain, the padel boom began in the mid-1980s. In Madrid alone, there are now 14,000 padel courts, the largest club "Estudiante" has 40 courts, 12 of which are covered. In 2020, there were an estimated 100,000 padel courts throughout Spain.

Spain and Argentina are the leading nations in padel sport today, but the padel boom has spread to many other countries in recent years, first in Portugal, France, Sweden, England and Italy, and today padel is the fastest growing sport in the world.

Courtwall™ built its first in-house padel court in Halberstadt, Germany, in 2002, when the sport was still completely unknown there. Courtwall™'s 40 years of experience in building high-quality squash courts is now being continued in the construction of padel courts