Le Coaching is allowed to experimental title for the P 2000 tournaments organized as part of the Support Plan and Relance FFT. An experiment that is no longer an experiment in Spain since the coaching is totally part of a part of padel, especially on the World Padel Tour.

Coaching, already called into question?

At the change of sides, we regularly see the coach trying to help the pair develop their game, sometimes even with small tables and thus talk more easily about tactics.

The FFT therefore decides to try the experiment. In fact, this is not really a great first in France since it could happen to see coaches intervening in certain parts. If it was not necessarily regulatory, there was a tacit acceptance by the players and organizers.

The question that may arise is: what if one of the two pairs has no coaches?

Some players already believe that “coaching should be allowed when both pairs have the opportunity to be helped. Otherwise it must be prohibited“. Yet on the World Padel Tour, in the qualifications, some pairs have coaches and others do not, and that is not a problem.

Coaching regulations 2020

Here is the coaching regulations put in place by the FFT:

- The coach must imperatively be licensed FFT (year of approval)
- The pair must declare their coach to the Referee, at the latest, the day before qualifying
- A coach can participate in the tournament as a player
- A coach can advise several pairs, male and / or female participating in the tournament
- In order to be able to advise a pair, a coach must be present at the start of the game, during the warm-up. He will not be able to intervene during the game if he was not present during the warm-up.
- A pair cannot change coaches during the tournament; only the coach declared to the Referee before the competition will be assigned to the pair considered.
- Coach advice can only be given to side changes, and only to side changes.
- If a coach advises several pairs, the Referee will try, as far as possible, to take this into account in his programming, but without any guarantee because priority is given to the smooth running of the Tournament.
- During a non-refereed game, the coach must under no circumstances intervene during discussions between players, in particular in the event of a dispute occurring during the game.
- During an arbitrated game, and in the event of a dispute, the coach may in no case intervene with the arbitrator.
- In the event of reprehensible behavior on the part of the coach, the code of conduct will apply, in fact, to the pair he advises.
- The (a) Captain of the French Seniors Dames Team may not coach a female pair.
- The (a) Captain of the French Seniors Gentlemen Team may in no case coach a male pair.
- The (a) Captain of the French Young Girls Team may under no circumstances coach a female pair comprising a minor player.
- The (a) Captain of the France Jeunes Garçons team may under no circumstances coach a male pair comprising a minor player.

For more information, the French Tennis Federation provides its P2000 regulations.

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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