As announced on January 13, the French Tennis Federation is tackling this unprecedented health crisis head-on: the coronavirus. If she knows that the financial repercussions for the entire tennis economy, padel and beach tennis are serious, she has no choice but to try to stem this scourge.

Consequently, the FFT provided details on “lsuspension of all competitions managed by the officials of the Federation, its Leagues, its Committees and its Clubs”But also on the interruption“ collective training and activities of tennis schools and associated disciplines " The following elements should be understood on this last point:

- Suspension of collective training for more than 10 participants;
- Limitation of tennis school activities to 10 children per hour within the club.

These elements clearly restrict the possibilities for clubs to padel to continue normal activity. All the events of padel, from P25 to P2000, were canceled this weekend. And it is a priori certain that the various events planned for the coming weeks will also be canceled.

The Umpire, Frederic Richeme has also produced a visual that speaks volumes…

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.