Padel Magazine - What a weekend! 36 teams from all over Europe met at the Central Padel de Lyon for the second edition of Padel International Trophy. France, Greece, Russia, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium met in this superb Lyon indoor club.

After two days of qualifying for the main draw, 5 out of 8 teams were French in the quarter-finals. It is rather a good thing for the future of padel French.

Small disappointment on the Belgian side without a representative in the main draw. It was Jérémy Gala and Jérémy Leroy who went the furthest, falling against the winners of table 2 Cédric Carité and Alexis Salles. However, they made up for it in the evening by knocking out all the other pairs and countries.

tournament padelThe big winners of the main draw are therefore the Spaniards who also had the Swiss label for this tournament, Alphonso Zayas and Pedro Echarri succeeding in beating the French pair so difficult to play Jérémy Ritz and Robin Haziza from the club of Sophia (Le Real Padel). The Spaniards have shown great mastery, finding improbable angles and playing frequently with changes of pace. Gilles David, one of the victims of this famous Spanish pair explains that “the Spanish don't give anything. You always have to look for the point ”.

It must be said that Alfonso and Pedro are 100% players padel… And it shows on the ground.

In the secondary table, it is therefore Toulouse's Cédric Carité and Alexis Salles who beat the Dutch Marcel Bogaart and Bram Meijer 6 / 1, 7 / 6. The second set was complicated, but the French pair made a nice tournament losing only to the future winners of the main event in pool match.

In the 3 table, we find another French pair in the final against a Spanish pair, but this time, it's not the same story. Alexis Deuneuve and Yann Range make a very good match against the Spaniards Jordi Roviderosa and Marc Roviderosa and win in two sets (6 / 4, 6 / 2)

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In the women's table, everything was decided on Sunday with a great victory for Virginie Pironneau and Elodie Damiano against Sandy Godard and Geraldine Sorel. Match that lasted nearly two hours, and ended with a great tie-break (10-8). It is “a very encouraging defeat” according to Sandy and Geraldine, who already have their minds turned towards a future event ... Certainly that of Cassis which should take place in two weeks. Remember that the female pairs had already played on Saturday during the group stages of the main draw, showing a lot of strength and pugnacity.

More generally, the organization of the tournament was very good thanks in particular to the joint work of Padel International and the Lyon club.

It is rumored that next year, the club hosting the 3e edition could be exotic ...

Franck Binisti - Padel Magazine

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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