{"id":2115,"date":"2025-12-09T20:56:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2025-12-09T20:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:56:33","slug":"proper-addictive-says-aitch-as-he-backs-padel-firm-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=2115","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Proper addictive&#8217;, says Aitch, as he backs padel firm \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Aitch-and-Game4Padel.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187340 lazyload\" style=\"width:838px;height:auto\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"524\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Aitch-and-Game4Padel.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187340 lazyload\" style=\"width:838px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Aitch-and-Game4Padel.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Aitch-and-Game4Padel-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Aitch-and-Game4Padel-768x507.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Aitch-and-Game4Padel-600x396.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Aitch has taken up padel and is now an investor (pic: supplied)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Rapper Aitch has become the latest high-profile investor in Game4Padel, the Edinburgh-based club operator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He joins an already impressive list of famous investors, including tennis stars Sir Andy and<br \/>Jamie Murray and Annabel Croft, as well as footballers Virgil van Dijk and Jamie Vardy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A keen padel player himself, the 25-year-old, whose real name is Harrison Armstrong, will work with the company to help bring padel to a wider audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Game4Padel has 29 venues, with two more opening soon. It has a booming coaching programme, with more than 250 coaches trained in the past three years.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jamie-and-Andy-Murray-at-Game4Padel.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187339 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jamie-and-Andy-Murray-at-Game4Padel.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187339 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jamie-and-Andy-Murray-at-Game4Padel.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jamie-and-Andy-Murray-at-Game4Padel-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jamie-and-Andy-Murray-at-Game4Padel-768x516.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jamie-and-Andy-Murray-at-Game4Padel-600x403.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Jamie and Andy Murray are keen padel players (pic: supplied)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Aitch said: \u201cI\u2019ve been hooked on padel from the moment I picked up a racket.  It\u2019s proper addictive and what Game4Padel is doing to grow the sport and open it up to everyone is class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cIt was a natural fit really and having been to a few of the Game4Padel venues now, I can\u2019t wait to help out and get involved. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cIt\u2019s a buzzing community and exciting to play my part in growing that as more and more people play across the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Michael Gradon, Co-founder and CEO at Game4Padel, said: \u201cPadel continues to surge in popularity across not only the UK but the world, and having someone as influential as Aitch come on board as a Game4Padel investor is a fantastic endorsement of what we\u2019re building and shows how mainstream the sport is becoming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Padel is the world\u2019s fastest growing sport played in over 160 countries and forecasters<br \/>predict it will become an Olympic sport by 2032.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.3) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Proper #addictive #Aitch #backs #padel #firm #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aitch has taken up padel and i&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[2165,2161,2166,266,265,1182,2162,2163,2164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}