The Hauts-de-France experienced the considerable emergence of this sport around 2014. Following a visit to the giant of mass sports distribution, Décathlon (Campus), we learned that there had a plot of padel offered for rent to practitioners from 2010 or 2011. The coating was concrete, not the one we currently know on the courts of padel, and currently no longer exists due to soil wear. At that time, this store offered items from padel, but in very limited quantity; overall, a racket, a pair of shoes and balls. Now, the radius has grown, following the boom in the sport in the region.

Since then, some private commercial structures offering padel have emerged, as well as courts in tennis clubs. We were able to obtain two summary tables of the offer of the padel in the region following our visit to the League of Flanders:

Regarding private structures, we get a total of 15 centers for 48 fields, and for tennis clubs, 7 clubs are concerned for 13 fields.

When we make the percentage of private-public distribution according to the number of structures, we obtain 31,8% for the public (tennis clubs) against 68,2% for the private. When we look at this distribution according to the number of lots, we obtain 21,3% for the public against 78,7% for the private sector. This distribution is even more unbalanced in favor of the private sector for the number of land. Indeed, we note that tennis clubs generally build one or two tennis courts. padel, when private structures have up to 9 sites.

Pierre Lemonnier

Pierre studied STAPS, and validated a master's degree in sports management, after studying in Reims, Frankfurt and Lille. I discovered the padel in 2014 during my Erasmus year in Frankfurt thanks to a Spanish friend. Damn it is good padel !

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