Padel is experiencing a meteoric rise everywhere: there are nearly 20 million players in 90 countries across the world.

While Argentina and Spain – where it became the leading racket sport – have several million fans, the International Padel Federation reports 44 member countries across the world.

Having entered the FFT's fold in 2014, this sport is booming in France. The number of practitioners is estimated at 500 in France, with nearly 000 FFT-referenced padel courts (i.e. +1% compared to 273) and 195 clubs (i.e. +2018% in one year).

In addition, the FFT is committed to supporting the construction of 1 new tracks in France by 000.

As part of the government plan "5 local sports fields", the FFT has signed an agreement with the National Sports Agency to this end, which will support the creation of 000 padel courts in France, in addition to the 500 others in which the FFT will invest.

Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovered padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since then, padel has been part of his life. You often see him touring France to cover major French padel events.

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