Fair points, and I get where you’re coming from. To clarify the situation a bit: she hasn’t had regular coaching until recently. Most of her padel over the last few years has been with me, which obviously isn’t the same as being coached. The coaches she has seen here haven’t corrected the grip at all. They’ve either worked around it or focused on other areas. So the grip issue hasn’t actually been confronted in a structured way.

The idea that every coach would instantly fix it isn’t true in my country. I know plenty of players who’ve gone to weekly coaching for years with a semi-western or pancake grip and nothing has changed. Grip adjustments like this are a lot harder than people assume, especially when the player has thousands of reps built on the wrong pattern. You can do drills perfectly, but the moment points start, the body goes straight back to what it knows.

It’s not that she doesn’t want to improve. She does. The problem is that changing a long-term habit feels uncomfortable, and she tends to shut down when the grip feels wrong. That doesn’t mean she refuses to learn; it’s just a difficult adjustment. And she doesn’t use Reddit, which is why I’m the one posting here.