[toggle title = ”Author: Alexandre BRUZAUD,” state = ”open”] Graduated with a Master's degree (specialization in sports marketing and management) at ISC Paris Business School. On a permanent contract since the end of my studies at Adidas France as sales manager in charge of the Paris / North region. Passionate about sport, I discovered and joined the Padel during my Erasmus in 2013 in Spain. [/ toggle]

Beach tennis and Padel are two emerging sports with very strong potential. Their integration into the French tennis federation leads us to question the reasons for this integration and the relevance for these sports in order to develop in France.

Indeed, the initial observation is based on a federation, the 2ème more important in France, which in these hours of "glory", at the time when its number of licensees continued to increase year after year, left sports close to tennis like table tennis or squash to develop, see let some sports leave the federation as the badminton that 1978 becomes autonomous in the way to federate. At the time, all was well for the FFT, but recently, and for the first time in its history, the FFT sees its number of licensees decline over several years in a row.

The decision was taken by the FFT to redress the situation, among other things by integrating beach and padel. We will study the different interactions with each other in order to know if these decisions taken by the Federation were judicious and if this integration within the FFT is a good thing for the development of these new disciplines in France.

Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovered padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since then, padel has been part of his life. You often see him touring France to cover major French padel events.

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