Gilles Moretton: "The padel must have its own license "| Padel Magazine

2021 will not be a year like any other. Of course, the health crisis is disrupting the ecosystem of the sports world. The elections for the presidency of the FFT on February 13 will also be a new step.

Gilles Moreton, the opponent of the current President of the FFT Bernard Giudicelli, returned to Tennis Magazine on its intentions and objectives in terms of padel. The president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes League marks his difference.

A 100% license padel

Gilles Moretton remains on his same course of action. Several months ago, the president of the ARA league made us understand that he would move towards the establishment of a single license of padel, as moreover a single license of beach tennis for thus “prevent these two sports, which are part of the FFT, from being diluted in tennis ”.

The candidate for the presidency of the FFT thus confirms to Tennis Magazine (December 2020):

"The padel must have its own license. There it is “diluted” in tennis; however, consumption and recruitment patterns differ. The padel requires a delicate marketing exercise of simultaneous creation of supply and demand. ”

Attract players who do not necessarily have a tennis profile

Here too, Gilles Moretton is staying the course on his approach. For him, the goal is to gain new players from padel which do not necessarily come from tennis.

It is necessary to achieve that the player padel do not be “fair” the tennis player of the club.

How to develop the practice outside of racket sports? Gilles Moretton's solutions are as follows:

Promote the discipline elsewhere through discovery tours, companies ...

Stop the anarchic construction of land padel

For the candidate for the elections next February, it is necessary to rework the development of padel in France by avoiding seeing land of padel without any real strategy.

He explains wanting to create real bridges between the public and the private sector and to avoid “competition” which would penalize an area.

I also observe that today the land is growing in an anarchic manner. We build to build, instead of building in conjunction with clubs, federal and private, in order to achieve a network avoiding competition from neighboring structures.

“Less snoring than the FFT Padel Tour"

What seems obvious is that the version of the FFT Padel Tour initially planned will be at least reviewed in spirit if Gilles Moretton becomes the future President of the FFT.

He explained to us that he wanted to concentrate all the efforts on “strong communication and promotion of padel via discovery parties, presentations, exhibitions to seduce the public ”.

Already, during our interview, he had distanced himself from “this elite circuit “Who did not answer“ l'real ambition to create players and develop the padel".

In front of our colleagues from Tennis Magazine, he persisted and signed. Gilles Moretton wants to build “An essential base” even if he admits that “Tit sounds less loud than the Padel Tower".

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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.