DNA SPORTS at Châlons-en-Champagne is a sports complex which offers padel for 4 years. An active and warm club managed by Christophe and Stephan, who want to resume normal activity as quickly as possible after this unprecedented crisis.

Keep in touch with the padel

Our first wish is to reopen the complex, obviously respecting sanitary standards. When we see the bubbling that there is on the site Padel Magazine and social networks, it allows you to stay informed on the evolution of padel in France, but also on mentalities which are changing a lot.

We can clearly see that there will clearly be an after coronavirus for the structures of padel private. To be continued, but we remain very positive.

The championship of padel

We therefore kept in touch during this crisis with the world of padel. We hope to be able to relaunch our championship padel as soon as possible. We had assembled 12 teams.

In terms of approved tournaments, it was planned that our first P100 will take place on March 15. Obvious cancellation. We will come back stronger with this tournament with an upcoming date.

A step of Head Padel Open was scheduled for 2020. For the moment no news, but we imagine that for a stage in June, it could be complicated. We hope to be able to come back to our players with good news.

Teaching padel

We will also offer a school of padel soon to the center. For the moment, nothing is yet definitively validated. The regulations, so as not to change in France, are not always very simple and do not adapt to the life of a center like ours.

But things are changing a lot, and we have the impression that the FFT is moving to finally allow us to acquire a diploma of padel next year. If this comes to pass, it will be very good news for the world of padel who expects a lot.

This will even make it possible to unblock complicated situations in clubs of padel. Because we want to play the game thoroughly and offer new practitioners padel.

The partnership with the Tennis Club Saint Martin

The club has always been very open to the outside world. We continue to develop the partnership with the Tennis Club Saint Martin which wishes to acquire a padel outside. We know that relationships can be hard to come by, but with common sense everyone benefits… sports clubs, players and the taxpayer.

The FFT starts listening to the private

The FFT certainly had a lot of work to do during this crisis. Assessment: She clearly favored tennis over padel. For a Federation which must behave in the same way with all of its sports, it is a shame.

During the confinement, we moved a lot on the web… And it ended up paying, it seems. We see the FFT moving at last! this is David against Goliath, I hope I have made a difference even if we remain a small complex.

We play our role to the full in promoting padel. The first beneficiary is the FFT. She should support us without fail. For the moment it is wobbly. It should come as no surprise if clubs rail against the FFT. She must listen to the people who work in this environment every day.

The FFT must understand that we are getting almost no feedback for the moment. We must therefore thank our creditors who support us.

Other DNA Sports collaborations

We are trying to continue the development of padel with many partnerships.

For example, a partnership had been set up just before the confinement with Intersport, which is also a partner of the FFT.

We were also about to work with Sarry TC via Adrian Collard.

We hope to be able to restart the machine when the crisis is behind us.

 

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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