For Jay Sawhney, a dedicated racquet sport player living on New York’s Upper West Side, the love of the game is what initially got him to New Jersey.

“Although I live in the city, Cresskill is an easy drive,” Sawhney told The Post. “Even with a bit of traffic, the experience is more than worth the trip.”

The experience he’s referring to is padel , an increasingly popular fast-paced racquet sport that combines moves from tennis and squash.

And despite a long history of New Yorkers pooh-poohing anything and everything on the other side of the Hudson River, he’s not the only Manhattanite making the trek to the Garden State to play.

Finding space to play and recover

Hailed as the “next pickleball,” padel is played on a court roughly one-third the size of a tennis court with glass walls

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