Ce Cairo Fip Star is soon coming to an end, so the opportunity to discuss with Amr Mansi (CEO ofIEvents) who greatly participated in the organization of this tournament.

Take inspiration from what has been done for Squash in Egypt

 Padel Magazine : Amr the tournament is a success for the moment, we are received in a very good club, the competition is very interesting, but all that is thanks to you, isn't it? 

 Amr Mansi  : " Thanks to us… I would say rather thanks to the padel community. Honestly, we were really excited to host this tournament that will allow us to promote padel at the international level in Egypt.

Our story started 12 years ago with squash, we organized the International Squash Open and now it is one of the biggest tournaments in the professional squash association. We also have the CIB Egyptian Squash Open pyramid, which is now one of the 8 most important tournaments in the world.

And at the same time we saw that padel was experiencing a Boom in Egypt, and with our expertise in organizing events and tournaments, we decided with our partner O West to start promoting this sport. That's what we did and this is just the beginning."

 Padel Magazine : You talked about squash earlier, do you want to build the same thing in the coming years with padel? 

 Amr Mansi  : “That’s exactly the goal we have set for ourselves. Our vision would be to organize a major tournament (like a Grand Slam) in Egypt. I think we could start planning that at the end of next year or in 2 years, depending on how things go by then.

We will try to promote padel as much as possible, through TV, the media, so that padel gains notoriety and that in collaboration with the Egyptian federation we can educate children in padel from a young age. This is essential in order to create a solid and sustainable base for Egyptian padel.

A simultaneous international tournament of Squash and Padel

 Padel Magazine : Do you play padel? And if so, where and when did you start? 

 Amr Mansi:  “Yes of course, that's why I'm interested and passionate about developing this sport. I started in 2017 at our New Giza club. »

 Padel Magazine : Do you think that the same event combining a padel and squash tournament in the same week could see the light of day here? 

 Amr Mansi:  « I'll tell you something, last year in El Gouna we did it but in a slightly different way: during the week when the international squash tournament was taking place, we set up a local padel tournament which also took place on our padel courts in Gouna.

We organized it and it went really well honestly, and people came even though it was a local tournament. Next time, we would like to have an international squash tournament AND an international padel tournament, which could allow us to have a bigger audience."

The full interview can be found here:

Nasser Hoverini

Passionate about football, I discovered padel in 2019. Since then, I have been crazy in love with this sport to the point of abandoning my favorite sport.

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