Le padel on TV, the padel at Roland Garros, attendance records, a crazy World Championship, titanic partnerships and investments ... 2021 will forever be the year of the real boom padel in France and worldwide.

“I no longer believe in the boom in padel, we've heard for years that it's going to happen and it doesn't ”, we heard not even two years ago. A year later, the panorama is completely different. The health crisis will have dynamited a rocket which is now launched at an unstoppable speed.

Grandiose events

International Championships

Le great success of the World Championships in Doha came to contrast with the European Championships in Marbella. But what a way to erase these Europe! the padel, and all of its actors, got what they deserved for the first time. A top-quality event with all the pieces that fit together, thus allowing forces to be united in the same direction.

“On an organizational level, it will be difficult to do better”, said the magician Sanyo, and on a sporting level'Spain reigned with a historic “female-male” double.

Our two French selections obtain the chocolate medal with two cruel 4th places.

“We will do better next year”, promised Luigi Carraro at the microphone of Padel Magazine from Qatar. In Spain, Italy or elsewhere, the FIP has the challenge of remaining on similar standings so that the Doha event becomes the standard for the World Championships.

Le World Padel Tour breaks records

The big international circuit has, for one more year, surpassed its own records. In terms of physical attendance - and after a year 2020 almost entirely behind closed doors - the WPT was full on several events. In Madrid for the Final Master in December, the WPT announced nearly 40 people over 000 days of competition. In Malmö, Sweden, 4 people attended the Open final!

Last October, 170 people watched the match between Navarro / Di Nenno and Ruiz / Stupaczuk simultaneously from the GOL TV channel to Spanish television. The popularity of World Padel Tour grows in many countries, and players are increasingly identified as global stars. (Even journalists from Padel Magazine are arrested in Madrid by strangers)

For 2022, the World Padel Tour will remain on the same line and the circuit intends to offer us even more beautiful events. Miami was recently announced for next season, and we also know that a WPT Open will be held in Occitanie at the end of spring!

2022 will be a year filled with international events in France with also the new edition of the tournament of Canet-en-Roussillon, a FIP Gold in Saint-Tropez, as well as an FIP Gold in Perpignan!

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APT Padel Tour knocks on the door with breathtaking events

THEAPT Padel Tour continued to grow in 2021. The circuit chaired by Fabrice Pastor, will have offered maximum visibility to its players, and great matches to its fans.

And for its first international season, the APT Padel Tour produced some remarkable events. The image of the year is undoubtedly this central court on the Place du Casino de Monte-Carlo for the Monaco Master. An event of padel on one of the most prestigious places in the world to prove that this sport has achieved real notoriety.

Monaco, but also Lisbon, Seville, Liège, Rosario and many other events around the world. This is the ambition of the APT Padel Tour that has already announced Cap Town (South Africa) for next season, and which already has “other surprises” in store for the second half of the year.

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Le padel on French television

Le padel is more and more present on television in many countries. But this year, it is in France that we can see the padel on the small screen.

Bein Sport and the worlds

For the first time in the history of padel French, a match was to be followed live on television. Bein Sport will forever remain the first channel to broadcast the padel in France.

“It's very good for the padel to be on TV ”, Alix Collombon told us after this first match broadcast, where his France team crushed the United States.

Canal + and the WPT

It's the television partnership of the year. “CANAL + has always been a pioneer in sports broadcasting and, once again, we are here to offer our subscribers popular sports. As with other sports, we will provide quality coverage of the World Padel Tour", expressed Thierry cheleman, sports director of CANAL +.

Canal + has therefore enabled its subscribers to see the Master Final in Madrid on Canal + Décalé, offering a boost to our sport in France.

 

2021, the year of padel (for the moment)

2021 is therefore the year of padel so far. Zinedine Zidane who launches his own centers, the Ledap group, via the investment company Triton, which decides to invest 250 million euros in the padel, or the padel at Roland-Garros...

Many projects are underway, and Padel Magazine will also offer you some nice surprises. One thing is certain, we are at the very beginning of the development of this discipline which tends to become the sport of the XNUMXst century. And we will have a front row seat to attend.

We wish you a happy new year 2022, full of padel we hope so!

From his names, we can guess his Spanish and Italian origins. Lorenzo is a multilingual passionate about sports: journalism by vocation and events by worship are his two legs. He is the international gentleman of Padel Magazine. You will often see it on the various international competitions, but also on the major French events. @eyeofpadel on Instagram to see his best photos of padel !

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