And if the padel allowed tennis to evolve, modernize and even why not relive its golden age? We often talk about game formats in padel and especially of its duration.

In general at padel, a tournament of padel lasts a weekend. But for 2 years, we see more and more tournaments of padel be played out over a day and even over an evening. We necessarily think of WinWin Padel de Nîmes, one of the precursors in this type of very short tournaments which sometimes only last half a day and more.

A format that has found many followers, since today, players seem to be more interested in short formats where we play several games in a row.

Disadvantages:

First, it's physical. We will have to hold the distance and be ready to chain several matches in a row.

We can see that already on a weekend, pairs may have trouble to chain 2 big games in a row. In this case with this type of format, you have to be ready to go further.

Clubs sometimes shorten games with formulas in 9 games for example. A formula sometimes criticized, especially when it is necessary to play with the NO AD, that is to say, games without the benefits.

BUT:

We do a tournament padel over a day or less. (or a weekend)

Compared to tennis, we do not do one game a day and more. The tournament does not last a week or two.

The trials of padel rarely last longer than a weekend and players usually play multiple games.

To summarize, we think that a tennis tournament over 2 days could come to boost this sport. The padel shows in any case that this formula works. Tennis clubs are already testing this formula with success, notably via TMC systems.

Squash also uses this formula for a while. In general, the events lasted a weekend. Now, we see more and more tournaments on a single day ...

We observe that the tendency is to group everything in one or two days, even if it is more difficult physically.

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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