Luxury hotels are known for their discretion, high-profile guest list and top-of-the-range amenities and for a while, tennis was the go-to sport for these hotels.

Well-kept grass tennis courts showed a level of exclusivity that only these high-end hotels could offer. The exclusiveness of the sport matched the allure of the hotels.

Tennis and luxury hotels became an inseparable pair, like a couple of popular high school girls.

But just like high school, popularity does not last forever, and so when a cooler and more youthful sport entered the conversation, luxury hotels had to switch sides.

Courtesy of Sports News Blitz’s Vanely Barumire, here’s how padel, arguably the fastest-growing sport on the planet, is replacing tennis in luxury hotels.