Hubert Picquier is a member of the executive committee of the French tennis federation in charge of clubs and equipment. Its objective is to develop the padel on the national territory.

Since October 2017, the federation has treated 134 projects by allocating 4 million euros of aid to clubs.

Cependant, le padel is managed by two types of structures, associations which are tennis clubs and commercial entities. The FFT can actually approve tournaments and allow teams to be entered in federal competitions, therefore giving them the status of authorized structures affiliated to the FFT, however they remain commercial and cannot benefit from subsidies to be able to compensate for the heavy fixed costs. that they may have.

Faced with this, in order not to penalize the development of padel, the FFT wishes to back up to the commercial structures an associative club in which it would impose to set up an office with the organization of a general assembly and to agree with the owner of the installations.

According to Hubert Picquier, the clubs will benefit from subsidies if on the one hand it is observed that the padel is developing much more than in tennis, the sport may become much more subsidized. On the other hand, the clubs must be promoters of projects so that they correlate with the study they are doing on the need to build one or more fields in the clubs. The league development advisor will analyze the request and if he assesses potential in the project, the club will receive additional grants.

He specifies that the average aid of a club in 2016 was 2285 euros, in 2017 the aid rose to 23 euros. Tennis and padel are currently treated equally.

Alexandre Cifuentes

Alexandre Cifuentes studies economics. He decided to intervene on the business of padel and in the sports market in general. It allows us to know about the padel in its entirety.

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