Benjamin Tison and Adrien Maigret, the pair that wins everything in its path. It is the team in the form of the moment against which all the pairs in France break their teeth. What's happening ? Would they be invincible? is there a way to beat them? The debate has begun.

Here is the most fit team of the moment. We hear about it every weekend of P1000. Tison / Maigret wins everything in its path, leaving only crumbs to other teams. Let's try to find an explanation.

All the best pairs are not present

Without underestimating the performance of the Parisian pair, it should be noted that the P1000s at the end of last season and at the start of the year have really evolved. With the introduction of the P2000 this year, the P1000 are no longer the tournaments where all the best French players come together. The fact that there are several P1000s per month makes this category less conducive to confrontations between the best French pairs.

We are impatient, for example, to see the matches between the French champions of padel Blanqué / Bergeron vs Maigret / Tison. Out of 5 confrontations between these two pairs, the French champions lead 3/2 and have won the last 3 matches including the final of the French championships of padel.

The pair Scatena / Haziza and Max Moreau / Pablo Acevedo have not yet played in France in 2019.

We will not ignite. But the pair Tison / Maigret, in the absence of French players tops realizes a perfect course until then. And the competition remains important in France in the absence of Team France based between Barcelona and Madrid.

A fixed pair

When we compare Tison / Maigret with the other teams, this one exists for several years. She took her bearings and her automatisms, difficult to disturb.

If we take the example of this weekend in Metz, in the final, Maigret / Tison played against Le Panse / Romanowski who plays a few times together. We even saw this pair change sides during the match, perhaps seeking a solution.

Professors or amateurs opponents

Most of Tison / Maigret's opponents are teachers of padel or people who practice padel outside of their profession, and are not players who are completely dedicated to competition. They have a very good level which allows them to go far in the tournament but not to jostle them.

Who could beat them?

Good question. On the French side, we should perhaps take a look at the players who have crossed the border, who have professionalized and are doing padel their life. I'm talking about Bastien Blanqué, Robin Haziza, Jérémy Scatena, Johan Bergeron and Maxime Moreau. We will not come back to this point, but inevitably, in the absence of these 5 players, the analysis is imperfect.

But even then, if the pair are not broken in, beating them will be difficult. We saw him last in the final at Casa Padel where Maxime Moreau played with Jose Luis Salines, defeat.

It would be interesting to see a Spanish pair 100 meet them. A Tison / Maigret facing Salines / De Benito would be a beautiful poster in France ... But we have the impression that the general French level has caught up with these Spanish.

A game tactic to beat them?

I do not know if there is a particular game tactic to beat them because each player is different and each team deserves to be oriented according to the moment, from where the interest to have a coach on the edge of the field, but you have to take into consideration the basic data: a right-handed person, a southpaw who likes to put a lot of pressure, who knows how to hit the ball hard.

Despite an atypical grip of Benjamin Tison, the small grid in the diagonal often hurts adversaries. Adrien Maigret side, despite a very pressing net presence for opponents, Adrien makes few mistakes.

We have seen that with this offensive game, the pair Tison / Maigret thus obliges with this type of game to be very focused during the game. Sometimes, we can see them a little less in leg ... And this is where the opponents must be able to seize the opportunity. We have seen them sometimes in the hard in some tests.

The problem is, they are two smart players who do not rely on their achievements. Yes, they undoubtedly have the facilities, skills that come from tennis, innate skills in padel… But we also see that the work carried out with their coach Fabrice Ortiz allows them to have a plan B when their game goes down.

The other element to take into account when playing against the pair Tison / Maigret: It is the center. They are two offensive players. They are able to cover more than half of the land. Should the opponents try to play a little more in the middle? Is this a solution? It's up to you to tell us ...

Julien Bondia

Julien Bondia is a teacher of padel in Tenerife (Spain). Columnist and advisor, he helps you play better through his tutorials and tactical/technical articles padel.

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