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The padel app turning matches into meet-cutes

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Padel has taken the sports world by storm. In a smaller but growing circle, it’s also become a way to date.



Much of that runs through Playtomic, a booking app for racquet sports where players join “open matches” with strangers, chat through the app, and meet people they wouldn’t otherwise encounter. For some, those connections carry off the court.



“People are meeting each other on the court . . . [and then] grabbing a beer or coffee from the grounds,” says Pro Padel League CEO Michael Dorf

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