The Marne Tennis Committee organized a discovery day of the PADEL intended for club leaders, professional teachers and volunteers from Marne at ADN Sports in Châlons en Champagne this Sunday.
Located in Chalon en Champagne, the multi-sport club has 1 padel, 2 badminton courts, a 3-a-side basketball court and a 5-a-side football.
The club hosted the big meeting of padel of the region with Roger Moreaux - President of the Champagne league, Gérard Dépit - President of the Departmental Olympic and Sports Committee, officials of the Tennis League (FFT), presidents of tennis clubs, but also curious people coming to discover and try out padel.
"The Marne Committee is getting organized"
Benjamin Corsi, the Development Advisor of the Marne Tennis Committee, explains that " the committee is organized to promote padel In the region ".
First, the regional championship for the French championships of padel will take place on Sunday March 12 at Club ADN Sports. This will be the first regional stage concerning the French championships of padel 2017.
But in this very positive atmosphere "we are at the genesis of padel in the region ”moderated Benjamin Corsi.
« What is positive is the very interesting feedback from tennis clubs and very receptive teachers. They see in this sport an opportunity to develop their activity. "
« What is interesting for our clubs in the league is to offer a new activity that perfectly competes with tennis. The negative point is that there is no financial leverage for clubs to develop the padel for the time being ».
"ADN Sport the first club in the region"
Stephan Dufour and Christophe Brûlon, The associate managers of DNA Sports are obviously delighted with this development of the padel in their region. But they believe that the FFT could do more, for example " unblock a budget padel for the promotion of padel in the region ».
But " We have with Benjamin Corsi, a very good relationship, very professional on his part and it is of course very motivating They explain.
Fortunately the development of our club padel is " encouraging ". " In terms of football, the market is there. On the other hand at padel, there is everything to do. We are in a region that did not know this sport.»
If the club only exists since 4 months, the 2e field is already in the heads.
To come to this club, it took 'se beat. now that our baby has finally given birth, we do not intend to let go ».
Franck Binisti - Padel Magazine
[box type = ”info”]A nice + at Adn Sports!
Discount of 1,50 Euros / player for FFT - French Tennis Federation licensees.
Photos of the club:
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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.