After the tournament came something more intimate.

Padel with the Pros gathered a select circle of clients and partners on Europe’s first floating padel court at The Hurlingham Club — an afternoon at the water’s edge, played beside the professionals.

Smaller by design, it traded spectacle for conversation: the kind of unhurried time in which a development becomes a relationship.

Throughout the month, Hurlingham members kept the court in play, extending Antigua’s presence across one of London’s most rarefied addresses.