The International Padel Club Cup is a great success. This first edition that took place in Malaga will be repeated until 2025 at the Inacua club.

After great victory for Toulouse Padel Club against the Mexican club Key One Team, the mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre Prados and the president of the Association of Private Padel Clubs, Claude Baigts, look back on this event.

This competition is rooted in the long term

 Francisco de la Torre Prados (FTP):  For us it is a great opportunity to host the International Padel Club Cup. Clubs from all over the world meet here in Malaga, where it all began for padel.

We are proud to be able to host this competition until 2025.

 Claude Baigts (BC)  : The setting is ideal for us to see this competition develop and take root over time. Malaga is a special city. If we see padel today all over Europe, we must not forget that Malaga planted the first seed. We can see it: padel is developing on all continents: in Africa, in Europe, in America… We see these players from all over the world competing in a friendly atmosphere on the Inacua courts.

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Four continents and 15 countries

 CC:  It's a great adventure with four continents represented, 15 countries. I admire certain countries like Moldova. More than 35 hours of travel to reach us, what a journey. As we know, there are many constraints in Eastern Europe today. They had to go to Romania by bus. Expect. then finally take a plane to Spain. Kudos to them!

When we see the emulation that can exist in Malaga, we are thinking more and more seriously about launching the International Association of Padel Clubs. I think that this association must take off.

We can see it clearly in Malaga, there are many topics on the table. And the development of padel necessarily goes through the clubs. But we must respond to all the topics. I think we are at the beginning of a great adventure that will allow us to support the development of this sport.

 FTP-  Malaga is THE land of padel. It is where the seed germinated and that is what allows us to have all these nations with us today. We intend to work with the organizers until 2025.

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Even better with more clubs

 CB-  There is no doubt that this competition is a great success. Players and clubs are unanimous. But I think we can still do better, we have already targeted a few positions where we will have to offer better.

For next year, we are also thinking about the competition format. Should we have two padel events: one with the best teams and another with more modest teams. Indeed, we have seen it, especially in the group stages, we have seen some very good padel, we have seen many exchanges. And at the same time, certain differences in levels challenge us. Should we change the format?

With Pierre Lamouré, we put this theme on the table. And we will need everyone's opinion to know whether or not we should change this formula. We can clearly see that in the group stages, the difference between nation 1 and nation 3 is significant.

But at the same time, that's also what padel is all about, the exchanges. We see players who would never have thought they would play against such teams. In addition, the system is well constructed since then, we play the ranking in the table. So inevitably, the levels balance out and it becomes very interesting for everyone.

Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovered padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since then, padel has been part of his life. You often see him touring France to cover major French padel events.

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