Hugo Da Silva

Hugo is the Head coach at the Nottingham Padel Centre, the East Midland’s first padel facility alongside being Coach at WPA Mansfield Club. Hugo is an LTA Level 2 Qualified Padel Coach and has been coaching Padel since early 2023. A past junior county tennis player with university training in sport science, Hugo also has several years of tennis coaching experience, as an assistant coach. He has coached almost 300 students of all levels, from beginners to advanced level, and of all ages, from 11 to 78, proving that padel is truly a game for all ages and abilities!

Hugo is also actively involved in padel club management with extensive experience in setting up group activities and mix-in programs, as well as assisting with organising and running padel tournaments and ladder programs. A young entrepreneur, he is co-founder of www.padeltrips4u.com, a specialist operator that organises competitively-priced padel trips for participants of all ages and levels, to padel clubs with covered courts in Spain and Portugal.

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