Arriving 4th at the 2016 French padel championships, the Lapouge / Veber pair continued their great momentum by winning the Master My Padel Tour 2016 at US Wissous Tennis / Padel.

High level from the hens

You had to be particularly sharp this Sunday to win The Master My Padel Tour to the new padel club in Wissous in the south of Paris. This Master concluded the circuit after events that took place throughout the Ile-de-France, not including Orléans.

In this Master composed of 2 pools of 5 pairs, the first two pairs of each of the pools reached the main draw. In pool A, Bourgouin / Theunynch finished first in pool ahead of Quillet / Kosir. In Pool B, Veber / Lapouge came out first in their pool after having saved a match point against Lepanse / Gimenez. The Garnier / Meslin (Laval) pair won the final ticket for the main draw.

In the semifinals, The Garnier / Meslin and Bourgouin / Theunynck match ended in a super tie-break in favor of the locals. Very balanced game, even if the Laval residents may have some frustrations in the second set, which they lost sharply 6/1.

In the other semi-final, the pair Lapouge / Veber unfolds against Ruiz de Conejo / Maigret. Despite some blazing Adrien Maigret and serious games of Sebastien Ruiz, but too high and low against the favorites of the tournament.

Veber / Lapouge: "a well oiled pair"

veber-lapouge-winners-padel-passion-2016In the final, Bourguoin / Theunynck and Veber / Lapouge offered us a wonderful show. Show and play. The player who will be talked about the most: Maxime Bourguoin who has a huge match with points from nowhere. For Sébastien Ruiz, one of the players in the competition and trainer at Bois d'Arcy (Le Padel Club): “Watch out for this player, Maxime Bourguoin keeps improving and we could see him more and more in the coming weeks / months at this stage of the competition.". And what about Cyril Theunynck, author of a very serious match with him also some point of defense off the pitch completely "locos".

But there is a “hiccup”: the Lapouge / Veber pair is a wall. “No pasaran” would be their saying. We want to believe it. If in the group match, they were not that impressive, the final was once again proof that we will have to count on these two for the next French padel championships.

In the first set, the gaps are very small, to the point where we all believe in a probable tie-break to separate the two teams. But once again, in the key moments, the Lapouge / Veber pair ends up breaking and winning this first set 6/4. Considering the first set, the score is harsh when you see the game proposed by the Theunynck / Bourgouin pair. But that's how it is, and it's THE trademark of the 11th players at the world team padel championships.

In the second set, it's more complicated for the pair Theunynck / Bourgouin. She gives up 6 / 3.

The pair Lapouge / Veber marks again the spirits thanks to this victory even if now this pair is awaited by all the others in each tournament. "We became the pair to shoot in a tournament ", Tells the winners. And it just seems to be starting!

"My Padel Passion is over ”

This weekend, it was the last My Padel Passion. “Next year, we will not have any"Explains the founders of the circuit Sylvain Gimenez and Loïc Le Panse. "These competitions require a lot of work and it becomes more and more complicated to manage everythingr”. The clubs have taken advantage of their skills to achieve great events, but these padel players in France also want to “enjoy their passion".

One of the triggers is this rule about "prize money". "Already that it is complicated to return in his expenses when making a tournament, the FFT now requires the organizers to offer Prize Money to increase the category of a tournament". Result : "Let's look at Lyon, Toulouse or Aix, we'll see some Spanish players, sometimes associated with French elsewhere, make their market in France since they will be certain to win the competition and therefore the prize money "Explains the organizers.

Perhaps this rule should be relaxed or the system revised. The debate is open.

Farnck Binisti - Padel Magazine.

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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