Cyril Hanouna talks about his beginnings in padel with Johan Bergeron, his love of competition and sends a little message to HEAD…

Bergeron / Hanouna at Head Padel Open...

Johan Bergeron: We don't even know how we got there. We played together 3 years ago in Mougin. Cyril had just started.

Cyril Hanouna: It was my first padel tournament.

JB: So for the final stages of the Head Padel Open, I was offered to play with Cyril and I don't know who worked behind it to make it happen. And then things happened quite naturally.

CH: And since then, we haven't left each other. We've been together all the time for 8 days. We sleep together, we eat together… I'm taken from Johan.

The padel bug

JB: You have to know that he is really into padel. We had a conversation in the car that blew me away. He was talking to me about the guys in the French top 20.

CH: I know the French padel rankings by heart. For 3 years, I've been hooked, I'm going all in. I don't stop, because there's a lot of room for improvement.

“A great competitor”

JB: I think he is a very big competitor. No matter what he does in life, when he is on the padel court he wants to win. I think he prefers to play badly and win, than to play well and lose.

CH: Yes that's for sure. After playing badly… anyway, I always play badly whether I lose or win. (laugh). But here I feel that we are going to play badly, but that we are going to win.

JB: As long as we win, it's good!

CH: We come for the result, but also for the atmosphere. I meet all my padel buddies, we laugh, we don't take ourselves too seriously. That's everything I like. I'm waiting for the racket with my name on it at Head. (laughs)

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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