Spain 2 - France 0 at the Open Monte Carlo International Sports

The Monte Carlo International Sports at Tennis Open Padel Soleil (Beausoleil) offered fine winners: Lasheras / Prado for the ladies and Arias / Castanon.

What they have in common: They are Spanish and did not suffer to win this P1000 despite the presence of our best French pairs.

Back on this great tournament.

**Lasheras / Prado: " Far too strong »**

For several months, we have seen this famous Spanish pair winning all the tournaments of padel FFT despite French opposition. This pair of World Padel Tour shows that it will take a few more games and a few hours of training for our French to hope to reach the level of the Spanish.

Lasheras / Prado wins the 6 / 1 6 / 1 final against Clergue / Casanova.

« They are for the moment untouchable »Explain the French pairs present during this tournament. " Too strong, too regular, too much in advance ”summarizes a Kristina Clément who almost realized with her partner Alexia Dechaume, the coup of the weekend.

Not far from the feat for Clément / Dechaume

Laura Clergue and Audrey Casanova, the French champions of padel in title were the favorites of their semi-final which opposed them to Kristina Clément and Alexia Dechaume. However, the underdogs were not far from winning this match.

In the first set, Clément / Dechaume makes a great start and surprises Casanova / Clergue. Clément / Dechaume even gets a ball of 1^er set at 5 / 4 harvested by Kristina Clément by a return to the net. Behind, it's the punishment because the French numbers come back to 5 everywhere and break in stride to win this 1^er set 7 / 5.

In the second set, while the winning of the first set was to give wings to the French numbers, we had the right to just the opposite. Casanova / Clergue collapsed completely by committing unusual faults while Clément / Dechaume continued on his momentum from the first set. Result: 6/0 in the second set in favor of the outsiders. Certainly a first in the history of the first French pair.

But Clergue / Casanova has a steel mind and showed it perfectly in the 3^e set where she manages to break Clément / Dechaume in this famous 7^e game ... They will not recover and lose 6 / 4 in this ultimate decisive set.

Christian Collange, the manager of Tennis Padel Soleil summed up the situation perfectly for us: “ A game by moment cyclic side n ° 1 French, a great Kristina and a Alexia that hurts by his atypical game of great tennis player and we had in the end a very good match ».

Arias / Castanon does the job

There too, it was too strong. However, there was much more resistance from our French with an alert in the semifinals ...

In the semi-final, the Spanish pair Arias / Castanon was surprised by the aggressive play of Ferrandez / Gauthier. We will say that it was the "little" fear of the weekend for the Spaniards who had to concentrate to win the 1^er set 7 / 5. Behind it is the punishment since the French will take 6 / 1.

In the final, the Scatena / Ritz pair could certainly tease the Spanish pair with an offensive game. From the beginning, the French attack the Spaniards. Yes, but ... not only do the Spaniards fight back, but when a Castanon does it, it wreaks havoc. From the top of his meter 90, the player on the right may have attacked rather than defended. Difficult in these conditions to find a solution for the French pair who nevertheless makes a good match.

Because on the left, the old 10^e world player Arias could also play very quickly with in particular some bandejas almost impossible to deliver.

Defeat 6 / 3 6 / 3 with honors for Scatena / Ritz.

The big game: Pastor / Tello eliminates Moreau / Lopez

One of the big matches of the tournament was that of Pastor / Tello against Moreau / Lopes. A match where we will have seen everything, everything believed. French n ° 30 Fabrice Pastor was once again associated with Tello, one of the best players in padel in the world. Against them, one of the best French pairs Moreau / Lopes. They will succeed in beating the French pair at the end of a crazy match: 7/6 3/6 7/6.

Franck Binisti - Padel Magazine

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.