Padel Magazine - Aurélien Grandmont and Julien Lacroix, the managers of padel famous St Cyr club, give us some of their time to introduce us to their club padel, tell us their story around the padel and their goals.

How did you find out about the padel ?
Aurélien: I work with Jean Michel, Jean Marc's brother who manages the TCM and he suggested that I come and try. Playing tennis since childhood and wanting to diversify my racket strokes, the padel was a good compromise with friendliness in addition. Suddenly I hooked very well and I brought friends with whom we tried to progress by watching videos on the internet and taking good tournaments in tournaments.

Julien: I discovered the Padel in 2011 thanks to Aurélien and Matthieu Abautret who had been playing at TCM for some time. We were together 24 hours a day and even if I had more of my head in the handlebars than they did in tennis at the time, I let myself be tempted after a while and I never won!

How many members do you have in your club?

Julien: In St Cyr we have around thirty players from Padel (I speak in terms of players because the section padel is confused with tennis, “members” can play tennis and padel) but the “summer transfer window” should bring us additional ones for next year.

Aurélien: Yes, it is indeed difficult to give a precise figure because some of our tennis players are also tennis players. padel.

How did this club get started in padel ?

 Julien: This club hosted a Padel for the 2004 World Cup with a first impetus and players who were among the best French but who have moved away from the competitions because of tensions with the federation. Fallen into oblivion since with very few regular players, we have been trying for 2 years now with Aurélien to boost the padel in Saint Cyr.

[src googlemap = ””Width =” 200 ″ height = ”100 ″ align =” aligncenter ”] What are your goals on the club of padel?

Aurélien: Develop and be the driving force of padel in the var. There are a lot of clubs in the Bouches du Rhône with Marseille, Cassis, Aix ... But in the Var there is not much. Today we are addicted to tennis which works very well. If the padel works relatively well with us, we are not helped by the administrative situation in France. It is still difficult to make young people want to give themselves to this sport because there is nothing not much help.

Julien: We hope to introduce this so fun and addicting sport to more people. Next year we will be able to offer evening group lessons all year round thanks to the lighting that has been installed this year, which will surely allow us to retain our players and attract others.

We also want to maintain the competitive level present at home, since 5 of our best players were part of the last “French championship” or “Master” and wear our colors as far as possible in the various tournaments.

Finally, we aim, in the medium term, to be able to host at least one additional court, which would greatly promote the promotion of padel and which I think will go hand in hand with its development in our club.

There is a beautiful event happening, can you tell us more about it?

Our tournament will take place on July 12-13-14 with the qualifiers for regional players the previous weekend and I hope it runs as well as last year, on and off the field. have all the information on the following link:

Open 1000 from padel from Saint Cyr

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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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