A sort of strabismus epidemic swept over the Mulhouse region last weekend. Like an impression of seeing double that took hold of the players and spectators who came to the 4Padel from Mulhouse-Wittenheim.

■ Four indoor courts.- In room 4Padel Mulhouse, the impression of seeing double was very real: the dismantling of a football pitch, replaced by two new padel courts, was completed during the weekend. In the process, the old carpet of the two historic courts was changed, in favor of a surface without visible sand that will please the majority of players. The complex also offers two outdoor courts, for a total of six courts, allowing it now to organize P500, or even P1000.

In Mulhouse the room now hosts 4 tracks instead of 2

These new features are among those we unveiled on May 4 (read below), pending an imminent big announcement concerning May 4.Padel from Strasbourg.

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■ Two days, two tournaments.- Even before the commissioning of the two new runways, the 4Padel de Mulhouse saw double by hosting two tournaments this weekend. On Saturday, a mixed P100 was part ofa French first : a mixed pair playing in wheelchairs beat a pair of able-bodied players for the first time!

Only one runway for 77 inhabitants

■ Two P250 for Arago / Stark.- As for the P250 organized on Sunday, it allowed one of the best pairs of the Haut-Rhin, Maxime Arago and Johan Stark, to do a double blow: the two friends have indeed won this tournament, after having won the day before another P250 in 4Padel neighbor of Saint-Louis. These two good tennis players, who started padel competitions only six months ago, are showing dazzling progress and are now close to joining the French top 500.

Stark and Arago were dominant in the final

■ An offer soon doubled in the department.- With only seven private courts and three located in tennis clubs, Haut-Rhin had been looking gloomy until then. It was one of the departments in France with the least padel courts, with one padel court for every 77 inhabitants, while the national average is around 000.

This shortage is coming to an end: after the two new leads mentioned above, the famous Squash 3000 Mulhouse will finally embark on the padel adventure (in addition to squash and badminton), with the opening of two indoor courts planned for the end of June.

A big project by Cyril Hanouna

Within a few months, the Rouffach association club also plans to increase from one to three tracks, which will now be semi-covered. An attractive offer for the club's atmosphere and the lower rates than those of the private sector (200 euros per year). Another associative club that is impatiently waiting for its padel courts: the Wittelsheim tennis club, whose four-court hall could be built next fall, if local elected officials finally decide to complete the financing plan. An essential investment to enable padel teaching, particularly to young people, for whom private rates are prohibitive.

And in the medium term, we also know that Cyril Hanouna plans to invest in a large private complex of six or seven tracks near Mulhouse, in Kingersheim, in association with the brand Home Padel.

Too bad this investment is made less than a kilometer from 4Padel, while further north, the Colmar region, which has significant potential, is still waiting for a padel offer to see the light of day. On that day, padel lovers will be working hard.

After 40 years of tennis, Jérôme fell into the padel pot in 2018. Since then, he thinks about it every morning while shaving… but never shaves with a pala in hand! A journalist in Alsace, his only ambition is to share his passion with you, whether you speak French, Italian, Spanish or English.

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