Padel is spreading across the Philippines as sport, style and social life collide. But the real test: can it grow beyond the smart-ring crowd?

For one Saturday, packed theaters turned a familiar industry complaint into a live experiment. The result was clear enough to celebrate. But things aren’t that simple.

When athletes walk into arenas, pools and tracks at this year’s Asian Games, what we won’t see are the salaries, plane tickets, medical bills, and years of support that helped put them there.