This weekend of the 7 / 8 February took place the 1st 1 stageer Padel tour de France: The Infinity Tour 2015 organized by Padel Infinity. Open to all, regardless of your age, your level of padel or your nationality.

30 pairs had gathered to participate in this 1er Tournament of a new kind, many Southwestern regions were represented and even more. Pairs of Toulouse, Castres, Montpellier, Perpignan, Bordeaux, Carcassonne and even Laval had decided to do battle on the grounds of Blagnac.

The Game System is established according to the number of players, who themselves can play in one or two categories or even more if the desire to be completely charred is felt 😉

For this tournament, 3 categories were played: Male Advanced, Male Intermediate and Mixed. It is a pity that there was not enough registration in Woman to also cover this category. Padel Infinity hopes to be able to have a Women's category at the next tournament in Bordeaux.

Matches started as early as 9h in the morning, with the sun back in Toulouse after a snowy episode where the cold was there with -1 ° for the bravest ones in the morning. In the end, two pleasant days under the sun and a Saturday evening very very very cool ...

Each participant was entitled to his "welcome pack" including the breakfast offered by the organizer (chocolates or pains au chocolat (not to frustrate anyone;)), croissants, madeleine, cake and especially coffee!) All day long y included fruit when players had a snack and other gifts padel and others.

The pool matches, played in 9 games for the 3 teams' hens or in the 1 6 games set for the 4 pools teams ended at 21h in the evening and the less tired ended up around well-deserved pizzas. All teams from all pools entered the finals regardless of ranking.

Sunday was the day of the finals and the elimination phase. The games were played this time so in 9 games where the bodies started to get tired and even very tired for those who made more categories.

The good atmosphere is in order and the pairs of Laval SIMON / BOISSE in Advanced Men and SIMON / MESLIN in Intermediate Men arrive in the Final playing a padel well established. Leaving aside local pairs from Toulouse, Castres or Bordeaux clubs.

In the Semi-final of the Advanced Male, the pair TRANCART / GOUTIRES played against legends and former French number one GAUBERT / SAN MIGUEL in a hung part and offering very pretty points and it is finally to the experience that André and François won, not without difficulty, their match reaching the final against Simon / Boissé of Laval. A Laval / Carcassonne duel.

In Intermediate Male, the pair Simon (yes .. again him; p) / Meslin met a mixed team authorized to day the male BEUZEBOC / ALQUIER and who lost in a very nice match to watch 6-3 6-3.

The Mixed category saw some good fights to end in a final between Marta / JF and Inigo / Paloma. Three Spaniards for one Castresian and who saw the victory of the Spanish-Castresian weekend couple won the mixed category in a brilliant final. Always in a great atmosphere! The main one at padel !

To finish the final between Laval and Carcassonne resulted on a victory for Laval who dismissed carcassonnais well tired by their semifinal. Congratulations to them.

At the end of the tournament there was a draw where each tournament participant had a chance to win the different prizes provided by the tournament sponsors.

Everyone is, apparently, left very happy with this 1er tournament. And the teams already registered for the tournament in Bordeaux, which will host the second stage, are already ready to do battle !! Vamos and long live it padel !!

Registration for the 2nd Step 7 / 8 Mars at SoccerPark Bordeaux on www.padelinfinity.com or contact@padelinfinitytour.com

 Clément Arico - Padel Magazine 

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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