Tournaments padel category P1000 are the subject of much debate between clubs and players.

Indeed, some believe that we should further democratize the P1000 and offer several every weekend, while others think that these tournaments should padel be fewer, better supervised and more elitist. What is the finding today? Who is right ? We will try to see more clearly.

A tournament padel P1000, what is it?

Tournaments padel P1000 are the first category tournaments. Tournaments padel P1000 are the tournaments which distribute the most points among the 4 types of tournaments offered by the French Tennis Federation.

We also have P100, P250 and P500.

For all the details of a tournament padel P1000, we invite you to take a leap here:

THE SPECIFICATIONS: TOURNAMENTS PADEL P1000

A specification that is not precise enough?

What the specifications say padel - July 2018:
The Federal Commission of Padel harmonizes the calendar, at the national level, of the P1000 events.
Men's 1000 P tournaments: 2 Men's P1000 tournaments can now be held simultaneously, provided that they do not take place in the same League and subject to validation by the Federal Commission

As you can see, the specifications authorize 2 men's P1000 tournaments on the same weekend. In the spirit, the FFT is supposed to control and avoid for example that nearby regions do 2 P1000 at the same time.

Why ? Because initially the tournaments of padel P1000 are supposed to be elite tournaments and in order to harmonize the rankings, it was best that we did not end up with too big differences between 2 P1000. The FFT should nevertheless make it possible to offer, for example, one event in Lille and the other in Perpignan.

If in its beginnings, there was little P1000 and logic respected, today we have every week.

At the gentlemen. We can have 2 per weekend ... Sometimes even we have 2 P1000 tournaments less than 500km away from each other, or P1000 whose clubs are from neighboring regions.

For example at the end of October, we will have 2 P1000, one at the Tennis Club de la Vière (near Agde) and the other at 4PADEL Maroon.

Both P1000 events are 430 km from each other (4h car) and are in addition to neighboring regions (Occitania and New Aquitaine).

We can expect then P1000 in Nice and Perpignan at the same time, if we understand correctly.

2 perceptions oppose

Those who want to democratize the P1000. The arguments are:

  • From the moment the club has sponsors why limit the number of P1000?
  • The more beautiful events there are, the better for the padel.
  • The goal is to have players and we have them.

Those who want to limit the number of P1000

  • We can not offer multiple P1000 with different levels
  • There are still not enough players to offer multiple P1000 on the same weekend with a high level
  • You have to make a P1000 rarer to make sense of it
  • All of these P1000 negatively affect other categories of tournaments.
  • Even my novice players are going to do P1000 instead of doing a P100 ...

Attention to the drifts

We want to draw attention to the excesses, when there are several tests on the same geographical area

Drift between clubs:

In some French regions, it is the war of the categories. For example, a club will propose a P500, announce it. Then the neighboring club offers a later category a higher. Balance: the club that announced its P500 is found with very few players to his test. This is especially true for the lower categories.

Drift between players and clubs / tournaments:

Because of the proximity of several P500 / P1000 events today, players register in several tournaments that take place at the same time and wait for the tables to finally play where they have the best chance of winning. points.

The Fox's Center in early September had also denounced these abuses. And many clubs complain about these actions.

Our opinion

There is no bad reasoning. The only question that matters is what meaning do we want to give to our P1000?

It's up to the clubs and players to answer it. But obviously, not everyone agrees.

Should we offer P2000? Why not, but that will not detract from the value of a P1000.

On the other hand, clearer rules are needed to allow players and clubs to get organized because at the moment there is a lot of fuzziness and the discontent of players / clubs is rising.

PS: Thanks to comedesfous.com for illustration. 🙂

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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