The Coronavirus will win the 2020 battle against the Most Beautiful Tournament on the Most Beautiful Place. But in the end it will be the French Open of Padel who will win the war.

The French Open of Padel was born in Blagnac in 1993, within the Ball and Racket Sports complex, designed by Sports Assistant Marcel Raynaud and produced by the mayor: Mr. Jacques Puig. The set consisted of 5 courts of padel including a covered 500-seat grandstands, 4 indoor tennis courts and a Left Wall trinquet. The first winners of the 1993 edition were the world champions Roby Gattiker and Alejandro Lasaigues (Argentines). The greatest professional players: Pablo Rovalleti, Juan Martin Dias, Pablo Samprun and Almazan etc ... came voluntarily to contribute their contribution to the construction of the Padel European.

Le Padel did exist in France supported by a young French Federation of Padel which sitting on the International Federation of Padel knew how to be heard. On the occasion of the first French Open of Padel, Claude Baigts the French President convinced the President of the FIP, Oscar Nicastro to make the French Open the antechamber of the World of the Year 2000 so that the latter can be played in France and Toulouse.

Large projects require follow-up in ideas and we had some.Every year on the Place du Capitole in May or June the French Open brought together the best in terms of entertainment. PadelThe recipe for achieving such a performance in the organization: an exceptional welcome for the players, medical assistance 24 hours a day, playing conditions that are always better from one year to the next as we have given to the taste of the day in 24.An organizational team broken from 2016 to 1979 in the management of the biggest tournaments and tennis exhibitions with the greatest players.

But above all the taste for challenges and the skills to bring together and convince. This is how 14 editions will be held at Toulouse Place du Capitole plus the World Cup in 2000.

So for 2021 we will come back stronger with new team members to carry out a new project to make this great adventure “of the Most Beautiful Tournament on the Most Beautiful Place” continue. May all those who feel in agreement with the values ​​stated above and who wish to be part of the new adventure for the next 5 years, make themselves known.Why 5 years: 2024 the Olympic Games in Paris, 2023 the Rugby World Cup in France and 2023 the World Padel in Toulouse, we spoke to the FFT.

Thank you to everyone who accompanied us, welcome to the new generation. Padel French stronger and more human.

Claude Baigts

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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