Franck Binisti had the chance to interview Fabrice Ortiz, one of the coaches of padel most famous French, who deals in particular with Adrien Maigret.

Franck Binisti: Can you tell us which players you train?

Fabrice Ortiz: I started working a little over a year ago with Adrien Maigret, I also took care of Benjamin Tison, who then went to Spain. I have also been coaching Yann Auradou for a year, Loïc Le Panse for two and a half months now, Tom Mitjana. I certainly forget about it but I train a lot of good players in Ile de France.

FB: Mainly gentlemen in this list, you don't want ladies, too boring (laughs)?

FO: No, it's not at all that, on the contrary I would like to have ladies, I take care of Aurore De Kermadec a little, but the ladies for the moment are not too able to take Classes. There may not be enough also in Ile de France…

FB: It is not difficult sometimes to be a coach of Adrien Maigret who wants to stay in the France team and of Yann Auradou and Loïc Le Panse who want to take his place in some way?

FO: No, it can be complementary, especially since Adri and Yann are going to go a little way together, especially on some P1000. But, on the contrary, the challenge is interesting since we have a player who is already in the France team and then another who wants to get there, so it's very interesting for me to combine the two.

FB: We saw that Yann Auradou was placed on the right, is it a choice of the coach?

FO: This is a reflection that was carefully taken, they thought that they could be complementary, we talked about it together, I encouraged him a little to go in this direction there and I think that it will have very good results being right.

FB: You think Yan can be more efficient since he can bring his punchy side to the right?

FO: Exactly. Before the right-wing players were mainly players who came to work for the long term, now they are very aggressive, like Jo Bergeron for example. It can also be seen on the World Padel Tour, it fits in with the times.

FB: When we start padel, we are told “let the ball pass”, yet we see each other on the World Padel Tour, but also among the best French, a tendency to let very little pass and to try to take the ball as soon as possible, it is an evolution of the padel ?

FO: It is an evolution of padel, an evolution of the surface too. Now you still have to keep the essence of the game, you have to use the glass as an asset, and not see it as a disadvantage. Sometimes it's interesting to let the ball go, it depends on the case, the qualities of the players, it depends on a lot of parameters.

FB: What do you say to two tennis players who are getting into the padel and who have the ability to take the ball early but are forced to let it go?

FO: I would tell them to keep letting the ball go to learn how to play well with the glass until it becomes an asset. The glass can be a disadvantage for those who type hard. At padel, it is not the one who hits the hardest who is necessarily the best player. We see players like Sanyo (Gutierrez), capable of doing anything, and I think that is the evolution: players who know how to play before the glass, but also after.

 

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Xan is a fan of padel. But also rugby! And his posts are just as punchy. Physical trainer of several padel, he unearths atypical posts or deals with topical subjects. It also gives you some tips to develop your physique for the padel. Clearly, he imposes his offensive style as on the field of padel !

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