Dorine Rabas knows the racket sports : tennis, Beach tennis et paddle. In 2018, she creates are sports coaching company andpadel coach. Over the years, the Nantes turns to the recreational padel tournaments organized in the region. And they fill up in one Record time !

Tuesday April 30, Dorine Rabas welcomes us into his apartment located north of Nantes. 15:30 p.m., computer and bills on the table, his activity of sports coach andpadel coach is gripping:

“Yesterday was a really intense day. I left Nantes at 6 a.m. to start my classes. individual sports à Pornichet from 7am until 13pm, and then I continued with a leisure tournament organized at Up2Play which ended around 22:30 p.m.,” announces Dorine Rabas.

Tennis coach and player

Ages of 41 years, Dorine Rabas started on tennis at the age of 7, with the best ranking: 1/6. She formed as tennis coach before stopping for ten years to work in other fields of activity.

“I worked at Decathlon and also in thefamily business à Saint Nazaire as logistics director“, she adds.

In 2018, she decided to start a business de sports coach et nutritionist.

“After six months, I discovered the paddle au Sporting in Saint-Herblain during a session of badminton with friends“. As in tennis, Dorine Rabas achieved a very good ranking: 13th French au paddle.

She was trained by Cédric Carité, a reference of French padel. He was notably eight times French champion, former French number one et European champion in 2015.

For 7 years, she mainly devoted her work time between sports sessions for individuals or businesses, and padel lessons.

High demand for padel tournaments

“Now it’s 50/50: I give fitness class and, at the end of the week, I organize padel tournaments. The demand to participate in tournaments is so high that I no longer have time to coach padel players. "

Its objective is not to propose approved competitions, but to promote the friendliness in different private structures en Loire Atlantique :

"I like loyalty people, that everyone plays together: men, women, and offer mixed parties. "Dorine Rabas organizes tournaments levels 3 to 6, equivalent to P25 to P250.

“Everything must remain accessible to everyone et fun. "

Dorine Rabas attaches great importance to the promotion of women's padel.

“At first, girls are less daring to come and play competitively. They start with leisure tournaments before enrolling in tournaments approved by the Federation“, she adds.

For example, at Urban Padel in Carquefou, located west of Nantes, Dorine Rabas provides 100% women's tournaments :

“I take care of finding partners. They can come on their own, there’s no problem. Now, the demand is so high that there are waiting lists. "

In addition, it organizes tournaments for people with disabilities :

“Last weekend we were at the Set at Bignon (south of Nantes, editor's note) for a tournament with people deaf and hard of hearing. "

Introduction to pickleball

With all these activities, for two years, Dorine Rabas is accompanied by a alternating : Emie Boucard, who studies at Win, school of sports management à Saint-Herblain.

“I help him for the abstract of his company: photos, videos for the Social Media“, she adds.

soon, Dorine Rabas would like to create a event around three racket sports : paddle, pickleball et tennis.

“I will soon be training for the pickleball. To the Pays de la Loire tennis league in Vertou, where I organize many padel tournaments, I have already achieved a introduction to pickleball. "

Tennis, Beach tennis, paddle, and now pickleball : Dorine Rabas is really multi-hatted and especially multi-rackets.

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Henri Pasquet

Passionate about soccer and tennis since I was a kid, I've been playing ping-pong for three years at a club in Nantes. More recently, I discovered padel! Basketball, rugby, golf, and motorsports: yet more new sports that I follow regularly. On the cultural side, since I love giving my opinion, I write film and video game reviews on my Instagram page, Silence ça Mix.

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