The French Tennis Federation has updated the Competition Guide padel 2018. We will try to put you forward, changes, deletions and additions:

The application for homologation

  • Regarding age categories

 For 2018, only the Seniors age category exists. A Club can not therefore organize a specific event for another age category.

In addition, team matches are not approved.

  • Calendar of P 1000 :

The FFT is responsible for harmonizing the P 1000 tournaments calendar throughout the country.

Please note that a Club will only be allowed to organize a maximum of 2 events P 1000 Men and P 1000 Women events during the year 2018 (calendar year).

Therefore, the FFT may refuse the homologation of a tournament P 1000, even if it has been validated by the League, if it considers that the dates coincide with another tournament of the same level, or a close level (harmonization throughout the territory).

Sports formulas

There are a multitude of possible formulas, or combinations of formulas for a competition of Padel (hens, hens + table with row start, hens + table with staggered entries, table with staggered entries, Multi Chances Tournament, hens + TMC etc.).

Number of matches per day

  • If 2 matches during the day: format (s) to choose
  • If 3 matches during the day: 2 matches maximum in 1 format
  • If 4 matches during the day: 2 matches up to 1 or 2
  • If 5 matches during the day: 2 matches up to 1, 2 or 4
  • If 6 matches during the day: 1 match maximum in 1, 2 or 4 format
  • If 7 matches during the day: 0 matches in 1, 2 or 4 format (in this case, all matches must be played in short format: 6 or 9)

Prohibition for a player to play more than 7 games (short format) in a day.

The rest time between matches in 1, 2 or 4 format must be at least 1h30.

The rest time between two games in short format (6 or 9) must be at least 30 minutes.

Tournament categories

  • P100 (Padel 100): prize money from 0 € to 249 € 4 teams minimum
  • P250 (Padel 250): prize money from € 250 to € 499 4 teams minimum
  • P500 (Padel 500): prize money from 500 € to 999 € 8 teams minimum.
  • P1000 (Padel 1000): prize money of 1000 € and more
    • Men: 16 teams minimum, selected thanks to the ranking.
    • Ladies: 12 minimum teams, selected thanks to the ranking

Is authorized to play a tournament Padel :

Any player licensed to the FFT, and having a type 'C' (Club) or 'W' (Web) license, bearing the words "Competition authorized".

Please note, from this year, any player with a 'D' (Discovery) or 'S' (School) license will not be able to take part in a competition (whether Padel, Tennis or Beach Tennis)

As a member of the 11 age group or older: The player must present to the JA, the day of his arrival:

  • an official ID with photograph
  • his FFT license certificate (Club or Web) for the current sporting year bearing the mention "Competition authorized"

(these pieces can be presented in a dematerialized way)

Learn more about the tournament categories CDC:

  1. SPECIFICATION TEXT: P 100
  2. SPECIFICATION TEXT: P 250
  3. SPECIFICATION TEXT: P 500
  4. SPECIFICATION TEXT: P 1000

RULES COMMON TO P 100 / P 250 / P 500

  • These tournaments are open to any player who is licensed to the FFT for the current sporting year, and who is in the age group 11 years or older.
  • Lucky Loosers may be allowed between qualifying and the final draw if there is only one Final Draw (no intermediate tables), in order to best complete the Final Draw.
  • Lucky Loosers are also allowed from Quarter Finals. During the quarterfinals, semi-finals and finals of the various events of a tournament, the Tournament Committee may, on the proposal of the referee, decide, in the interest of the Competition, to substitute the defeating team , the team that the latter just beat. The defeating winning team is then considered beaten out by the team they should have met. The 'Lucky Looser' team will only get the points of the turn they lost. If she agrees to continue the competition, she will in no case get more points. On the other hand, if she spends the next round (s), she will get the prize money based on her or his extra wins.
  • This provision is not applicable until the quarter-finals (except between the qualifying event and the final table of the tournament)
  • If a Ranking is published less than 72h before the start of the Competition (including qualifications), the Referee is free to use the last published Ranking, or the previous one.
  • Every player must present to the JA the day of his arrival:
    • an official ID with photograph
    • his FFT license certificate for the current sporting year, bearing the mention "in competition"

  => if the federal applications are not developed in time for this mention to appear, then present his medical certificate of no contraindication to the practice of tennis or tennis. padel in valid competition (less than a year old for players aged 15 or over, and less than 6 months old for players in the 11 to 14 age categories)

  (these pieces can be presented in a dematerialized way)

  • In case of bad weather, the tournament may extend beyond the deadline, without this extension can in no case exceed 2 days.
  • The ends of intermediate tables and the consolation events (ranking matches) of the different events of the tournament must be completed within the same time as the tournament.

 

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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