PADEL
DISTRICT.

Mouse: hold left click to charge power, then release to play. Right click during charging cancels. Keyboard and touch actions retain their direct controls. Choose the mouse shot type in the control strip. Release close to contact; racket releases have a short timing buffer. Serves keep an assisted fixed pace.

A QUICK COURT BRIEFING

Play the bounce.

Cameras: View selects top, third person or first person. First person: move the mouse to look around; WASD moves relative to that view and the centre ring aims your shot. Lock mouse allows unrestricted turning; Esc releases it. Hold left click to charge, release to play; right click cancels. Switching views cancels input.

Touch: use the left stick gently for slower movement, or push it fully to sprint. Hold a named shot button with your other thumb to prepare and hit when the ball arrives. In first person, drag the court to look around; the centre ring aims. In the other views, tap the far court to aim.

Padel is doubles, with a net and playable walls. You control the blue player marked YOU. Your partner covers the other side.

1. Serve diagonally. Press Hit. Your player bounces the ball and serves underarm. The return must bounce first.
2. Ground, then glass. Let the ball rebound off your walls, then hit before its second ground bounce. Hitting the opponents’ wall before their ground loses the point.
3. Find the space. Aim with the mouse or tap the far court. Hold Space to return, E for a high lob, or Q for a smash when the ball is high.

Movement help automatically positions you; directional input always takes over, with a short braking pause before help resumes. The receiver is chosen once per incoming shot. Releasing movement never switches you to a different player. Tab or SWITCH deliberately changes your partner.

Warm-up: keep a rally going and land your returns in the red circles. A target counts on the first legal bounce, then moves. The warm-up opponents let shots bounce so you can practise placement. Next ball (R) immediately resets the feed and keeps your practice totals.

Quick match: first to 3 games, deciding point at 40–40. One set: advantage scoring, 7-point tie-break at 6–6. Warm-up has no match winner. This is an arcade adaptation: assisted strokes and no out-of-court retrieval.