Stock image of a Padel court. Photo: Getty images.

Stock image of a Padel court. Photo: Getty images.

An entrepreneur charging customers €120-an-hour for padel and pickleball lessons sent “intimidating” texts to a coach left short on his wages when he was let go due to low demand, a tribunal has found.

In the texts opened to the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) businessman William McGlade, founder of House of Padel in Dublin, accused the coach of “lying about the job you’re doing”, “manipulation of your worth”, and told him: “You’re going about this the wrong way if you want to coach padel in Dublin in Ireland.”