Team Goode win the Pro Am Padel Tour final and £12,000 for charity
Former England rugby star Alex Goode's team top the celebrity series at Padium Canary Wharf, with talkSPORT streaming it live.
The Pro Am Padel Tour's 2026 season ended at Padium in Canary Wharf, London, on Wednesday 21 October, and it was former England and Saracens rugby player Alex Goode who came away smiling.
The result
Team Goode were crowned national champions at the Grand Final, which earned the £12,000 Captain's Fund for Goode's chosen charity, the Matt Hampson Foundation. The foundation supports people who have been seriously injured through sport and other physical activity. Team Manford, led by comedian Jason Manford, finished second, and Team James, captained by Blue singer Duncan James, came third.
The format pairs famous faces with top British players. Padel Mad's round-up notes that GB players Catherine Rose and Louie Harris were both part of the winning team, and that the day also featured an adaptive padel session with GB wheelchair No.1 Louis Telford.
Padel on talkSPORT
For sports broadcast trade site SVG Europe, the bigger story was how the final reached people. talkSPORT showed live coverage and interviews on its YouTube channel, which has almost two million subscribers. That is a sizeable new audience for a sport that has mostly lived on specialist streams and social media.
The tour also leaned on a wider media team. Planet Sport ran social and digital content, The Padel Paper provided specialist coverage, and two creator partners filmed behind-the-scenes content: former GB No.1 Frankie Langan through Into Padel, and Nikhil Mohindra through Behind The Glass.
Tour founder Oliver Morgan said: "Having talkSPORT covering the event live on its YouTube channel is an important milestone for us."
Why it matters
Celebrity pro-ams aren't the pro tour, but they do a job. A rugby legend, a comedian and a pop star playing alongside Britain's best players is exactly the sort of thing that gets people who have never picked up a racket to watch. With the LTA saying 1.5 million people in Britain now play, mainstream sports media turning up feels overdue.
