Le FFT PADEL TOUR Lyonnais started yesterday at Esprit Padel. Since this morning, it was the turn of the seeds to enter this second event of the elite circuit of padel of the French Tennis Federation.

Among the ladies, no big surprise, the favorites have passed. At the top of the table, Léa Godallier and Mélissa Martin do the job by winning their match against the pair Majdoubi / Invernon 6/2 6/1. The Meites / Berard pair will lose 6/0 6/0 against them. A match to be immediately forgotten, especially for Lorraine Bérard, who must level up as quickly as possible to get back into the race. Very good tournament for Nada Majdoubi. Elodie Invernon continues to surprise with her placed game.

Martin / Godallier will find Clergue / Ligi who won his match against the very dangerous pair Soubrié / Vandaele 7 / 6 6 / 2. A very nice victory for Clergue / Ligi because the Toulouse are very difficult to maneuver. The captain of the France team, Patrick Fouquet may have succeeded in making them change sides. During the internship of the France team, these two players tried their hand at this game: Charlotte on the left and Marianne on the right. It may still be a bit early to tell, but it feels like it's a winning formula for the Vandaele / Soubrié pair.

At the bottom of the table, we could live the loss of the pair Lovera / Casanova in his first round that opposed the pair Alquier Lambregts. Victory of the league pair Occitania 6 / 1 1 / 6 6 / 1. We will only retain the victory for Lambregts / Alquier. It will take much more and much better in all compartments of the game to hope to tickle the big favorites of the event, the pair Alix Collombon / Jessica Ginier who wins his quarter against Géraldine Sorel / Amélie Feaugas in 2 sets 6 / 3 6 / 2.

Women's semi-finals from 9h.

For the men, the Blanqué / Bergeron pair are on the water for now. Alexis Salles, the captain of the French men's team, had announced it before the tournament: “La pair Blanqué / Bergeron is very fit. She is trained and serious. She had a good and very encouraging internship for the rest of her French and international season".

In 8e, she inflicts a severe 6 / 0 6 / 2 to the Parisian pair Auradou / Maigret. Rare to report it. In the quarter, the pair Bensadoun / Reca can not do anything. It must be said that in this match, Laurent Bensadoun was repeatedly shot by Bastien Blanqué in his diagonal or Johan Bergeron with his slammed parallels. Gaby Reca, despite the huge player he was only able to see the damage.

In the semifinals, the French champions will play against a much more balanced pair: Robin Haziza and Johan Romanowski, a pair that likes and who also made a very nice tournament so far beating Pequery / Corbelli and De Benito / De Benito in 2 sets every time.

At the bottom of the table, we take the same as in 4PADEL of Valenciennes and we start again! We will have the same semi-final: Scatena / Bernils vs Maigret / Tison. 2 pairs who arrive in the semi-finals without having delivered their best padel. Blame it on opponents who show that we must count on them in the future.

The Lopes / Authier pair had a great tournament. Particularly consistent, it is a pair that makes its opponents outsmart. She succeeded in particular in bringing down the Moreau / Ritz pair in 2 small sets which, of course, would miss her match. His best match is certainly the one delivered against the Franco-Spanish pair: Scatena / Bernils. This time, the 4 players are at 100%. The Lyon pair deliver a very complete and offensive match that surprises Scatena / Bernils. But Jérémy and Mark are happy and they will manage to take advantage here and there of the few rare failures of the Lyons to get by 7/5 7/6. But what a match!

Adrien Maigret and Benjamin Tison were not far from returning to Paris faster than expected. Simon Boissé and Loïc Le Panse delivered a superb match against the pair vice-champion of France. But that was not enough.

The gentlemen will play from 10h30.

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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