The French Tennis Federation will not send players to the World Championships of padel veterans 2018 which will take place from October 5 to 13. Many players have expressed their dissatisfaction, especially that players and Padel Magazine, had since February last warned the FFT of this great event. In vain.

A Veteran World Championships Padel in 2018.

We will see that if miss this competition is really very bad for many players and France, we will also see that there are reasons for this absence.

Difficult to find an excuse, of course, when we see that even very small padel are present during this world. Yet some can be heard. We will try to list them:

  • France works first on its territory

Yes, the efforts of the FFT are focused on the championship of padel French.

The FFT is the subject of innumerable requests every week from players, clubs, new organizations, and so it tries to focus on demand in France.

She had already explained that she couldn't do everything at the same time. Moreover, Christian Collange, the Chairman of the padel of the PACA league, explained in a recent interview, that “the FFT could not do everything at the same time, even if we would like it to be the case ".

  • The means to unlock

Who says world championship of padel veteran, said the release of financial resources from the FFT for participating players. However, this was not initially planned. The FFT has already released numerous financial resources for several months to “the development of clubs padel”Explains Hubert Piquet, the elected official in charge of the development of padel. Not to mention that she had to release funds for the World Championships in Paraguay at the end of next October for the ladies and gentlemen team (16 players).

Hubert Picquier: “99% of the subsidies can go to padel"

We are not in tennis. You have to send twice as many people each time to international events. A budget that doubles for revenues that are not yet there. Normal, since the padel is an investment in the future. But hey ... For now, it costs.

  • The world not planned in the program of the FFT

The French Tennis Federation had not planned last October the world veteran. So, it's much more difficult for the FFT to add a competition like this one. It had to be manifested or offer this competition much earlier.

The Federal Commission of padel set up a few months ago now has the duty to put together all this information and then propose it to the COMEX, the executive committee of the French Tennis Federation.

  • No veteran tournaments padel until there

It's all new, we will finally have veteran tournaments for this new year of padel which begins next September. It will thus be much easier to make a choice among the players of padel ready to embark on the adventure of international veterans competitions.

  • You need rules for the veteran championship

Who selects? How are players selected? etc. And yes, we must put in place rules to embark on this adventure of the world veteran.

For the selection, one would think that it would be enough to take the top-ranked veteran players in the championship of padel French. But suddenly, there would necessarily be disappointed and discontented by explaining that this rule had not been put in place initially and that it is based on a ranking padel not yet sufficiently coherent ...

In short, now, we must do things and plan all these elements now so that France can no longer miss young or veteran championships of padel.

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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