The city of Montpellier finally has its padel courts. And it is the ASPTT Montpellier which has the chance to offer this new activity in the city of Montpellier.

Even if in reality, the city of Montpellier mainly follows the dynamism of its region since Palavas, Mauguio, Frontignan, Sète, and Vendargues have already been offering padel for some time now.

"It was time !”The city of Montpellier has been hosting padel at the Arena for over 2 years during the Open Sud de France, the international ATP tennis tournament. It took a while, but it's done.

Alain Heyraud, the president of ASPTT and Philippe Saurel, the Mayor of Montpellier, inaugurated the first Montpellier padel club on the Grammont Tennis court on Wednesday October 11.

And there is room to do many more! Although the free space is actually supposed to promote other developing sports. We'll see…

Photo credits: ASPTT Montpellier
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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