[box type = ”note”]Padel Magazine - Federico Quiles is number 9 in the world with his partner and friend Silingo. This interview allows us to get to know Frederico better, who stayed at the gates of the Masters 21013. [/ Box]

Padel Magazine : Unfortunately you stayed at the gates of the Masters, what are your goals for 2014?

Federic Quiles: First of all, it must have been a very good year for us, even though we had some hot moments and a little less good times. Our level improved during the year but it is still perfectible. We managed to make beautiful perfs especially against the top 4. So for the year 2014, our ambition is clearly to enter the first 8.

Padel Magazine : How did you fall into the padel ?

Federic Quiles: I started when I was little with my father in the neighborhood national club and I accompanied my father who was a good player. And at 10 years old, thanks to my father, I fell into the padel.

Padel Magazine : Your father is a padel ? Are you also a tennis player?

Federic Quiles: My father? Yes he played but a long time ago. Today he is a drinks player ...

PM: Did you play tennis before?

FQ: No, I played football. Absolutely no tennis.

PM: Are there going to be any changes this year? No change with your partner Silingo?

FQ: No change.

PM: What happened with your former partner Chico Gomez?

FQ: No nothing. Nothing happened. We separated because we had played a lot together. But I am very friendly with Chico. But it's like that. We took different paths.

PM: Do you know some French players?

FQ:… Aix en Provence is a very spectacular club. And the truth: I liked playing there ...

PM: I would like to have your opinion on padel French and what does it lack to win in France?

FQ: He is missing a few years because the padel is ultimately a relatively new sport. In Spain, he's only been at a very high level for about fifteen years. In France, it lacks experience, it lacks communication, coaches, clubs, exhibitions, television ...

PM: The French-speaking players of padel most often come from tennis, do you think that's a good thing?

FQ: Yes that's a good thing because the technique of tennis is quite close to padel with good shots of padel, touch. The tennis player has no problems getting into the padel. They can also become good.

Padel Magazine : Yet at the Masters, there are not necessarily old tennis players ...

FQ: Er, not necessarily. Take the example of Juan Martin Diaz is a good tennis player ...

PM: But Juan Martin told us the opposite yesterday?

Frederic Quiles: You're going for the mile! But he obviously has shots that come from tennis. He started out with tennis. Before becoming the player of padel that he is today, he has a history of tennis. But it's better to start with the padel. For me it is clear.

PM: How did you choose your partner? Why Silingo?

FQ: It's a little fate ... I needed a good player that complements me. We needed a player with whom we have a project in common. It required a player who is willing to travel and invest fully in my project. Age was also an important point.

PM: But he's in his thirties ...

FQ: Yes he is 30 years old.

PM: But it's not just the age you like at Silingo?

FQ: No of course. He's a player we all know, who has a lot of power, a very good player, and for my game that is exactly what it takes. It is he who is responsible for completing the points. He's the team's attacker. With his punch and my game more in a defensive position, we can become better than today.

PM: Today you play on the right, but it seems to us that we have already seen you play on the left, right?

FQ: Yes I can play left or right, but playing right is not a problem.

PM: Can you tell us how you chose your racket to help us choose ours?

FQ: I play with a dropshot racket. It is a very well known brand, extremely appreciated by players of padel. I am very lucky to be able to use this racket. Besides, I have been playing with this brand since I started playing padel. I have tested several racquets though, but the DropShot racquets are very good with good players who use this brand.

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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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