With their French equipment supplier Technifibre, Russian Daniil Medvedev and Polish Iga Swiatek tested padel.

Padel with Technifibre rackets

Le 11th in the world and 8th in the world swapped their tennis rackets for padel rackets for a day. In partnership with TechnicfibreTheir official equipment supplier, Daniil Medvedev et Iga swiatek thus discovered the basics of this booming sport.

They were supervised by two professional padel players : Mathias Novillo et Joel Olivera.

A session under the sign of discovery

The Russian and the Polish tried to master the return, bajada, and to the art of systematically go up to the net after the serve.

After a period of declining results for these two tennis stars, this introduction to padel could have offered them a welcome break.

Daniil Medvedev stay on one elimination in the first round de Roland Garros against the British Cameron norrie.

Iga swiatek, for her part, was beaten in the semi-final by Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka during the Parisian tournament. We recall that the Polonaise has already won four times Roland-Garros (2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024).

Henri Pasquet

Passionate about soccer and tennis since I was a kid, I've been playing ping-pong for three years at a club in Nantes. More recently, I discovered padel! Basketball, rugby, golf, and motorsports: yet more new sports that I follow regularly. On the cultural side, since I love giving my opinion, I write film and video game reviews on my Instagram page, Silence ça Mix.

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