But what's going on on the planet padel ? The World Padel Tour announces that from this year, it will be the application of the NO AD to 40 everywhere on the professional circuit: The famous gold point (punto de oro). A decision which may surprise in France.

While in France, the French Tennis Federation has decided to abolish the rule of NO AD, generally little appreciated by players of padel, the professional circuit as for him, will put into force the golden point from the tournament of Marbella.

For many years, the World Padel Tour touches everything both in terms of the game and in the general environment of the circuit. It's the turn of the regulations and the score. Is it a good thing for the padel professional? In any case, professional players will have to get used to it.

We remember that France was the laughing stock of the world of padel when it set up the NO AD in France. Many players in padel had expressed their astonishment at this Franco-French rule. Spanish players who had tasted the French circuit and who played on the professional circuit asked competent French people to “follow the example of what is done in Spain".

Of which act! The FFT has removed the NO AD for this year and it is the World Padel Tour which establishes it. France against the grain? Not really.

There are economic reasons behind this rule. The matches have to be shorter. After removing the matches in 3 winning sets for the finals, we generalize the gold point (the NO AD) for the professional circuit of padel.

Players will have to get used to it. And the fans too.

Le World Padel Tour has an agreement with the TV channel GOL. And it's a safe bet that this ambition to see the padel more and more television has influenced this decision.

Le World Padel Tour doesn't seem closed to going back if that decision is challenged at the end of the year. We will see.

 

Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovers the padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since padel is part of his life. You often see him touring France going to cover the major events of padel French.

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