Padel courts are coming to San Francisco’s Embarcadero Plaza for a year starting next month to get people interested in the sport, which is growing in popularity worldwide, city officials announced Wednesday.

Construction is expected to begin next week on the temporary courts in the plaza at the end of Market Street near the Ferry Building as part of a partnership between the city’s Recreation and Park Department and Park Padel, an athletic social club.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.