01 The pathway
Four levels, padel-specific.
Foundation through Master Coach, with sport-specific technical and tactical content at every level — the bandeja, the vibora, defensive wall play, the game-models of the modern men's and women's pairs.
Padel
Padel coaching, taken seriously.
Europe's steepest-growing racquet sport. A coaching layer that has not kept up. Rallova is the standard built for both.
Why now
Demand is doubling year-on-year. Coaches are not.
The UK has doubled its padel participation twice in two years; France grew 130% in three; Spain holds 6 million players and is still adding courts. The federations have moved — the LTA Padel Coach launches in 2026, FFT runs a 40-hour DFMP equivalence for tennis pros, FITP has its on-ramp via PTR. The supply of coaches has not kept up with any of it.
Rallova exists to fill that supply with coaches who meet a standard — and to give a real career ladder to the coaches already in the sport.
What Rallova does in padel
Three things, working together.
02 Tennis Convert
The bridge from tennis.
The single largest pool of accredited tennis coaches in Europe sits in the UK, France, Italy, Spain and Sweden. Tennis Convert L1 is built specifically for them.
03 The Standard
Externally moderated, FIP-aligned.
The framework maps onto the FIP Academy structure for credibility, stacks onto LTA, FFT and FITP licences where they exist, and is independently moderated at L3 and L4.
“The bandeja is the shot that keeps a pair at the net. It is not a winner, and it is not meant to be one.”L1 Coach Handbook, Chapter 13
Where Rallova sits
Stack on top of the federation, never against it.
Where a national federation runs a licensing pathway — LTA, FFT, FITP — Rallova is the methodology layer above the licence. The federation gives the legal right to coach; the Rallova badge says how. In the US, where USPA endorses Padel Coach Organisations rather than running its own training, Rallova pursues PCO status.
In Spain, padel's home and the most mature market, Rallova is a talent and IP source rather than an entry market. The framework is built to recognise and recruit from Spain, not to compete in it.
Two ways in.
For coaches
Apply for L1 padel — or convert from tennis in 20 hours.
The L1 Foundation cohort and the Tennis Convert pathway open for application in the UK, with US and continental European cohorts following.
Apply →For clubs
Padel is already in your club's plans.
Rallova certifies the coaches who will staff your padel programme. The partnership model is the same as for pickleball.
For Clubs →