Earthquake in Spain: The padel exceeds tennis in number of licensees. 2019 will stay forever a historic year in terms of figures and development for the padel.

Never the padel had taken the lead against tennis. How to imagine that a sport like tennis, so entrenched in Spain could one day be preceded by its cousin the padel.

Le padel from very FAR

And especially when we know that still in 2000, the padel counted only 6 licensees in Spain.

Yet the padel is well and truly passed in front of tennis in number of licensees. And we know that in number of padel has become a real institution in Spain to the point of challenging the king sport: FOOT.

If it is still very difficult to put a figure on the number of practitioners of padel in Spain, it is customary to speak of a figure of around 2,5 million players. The padel However, in recent years, we have seen a breaking point: we see clubs closing.

"We have reached a threshold of practitioners in Spain that seems complicated to exceed”Explained to us again in 2019, the director padel Babolat, Frederic Bertucat.

Brands hit the nail on the head

The growth of padel will go through its export and international development. The brands hit the nail on the head because that is exactly what is happening. All continents are struck by the passion for padel. And France is no exception either.

It may not seem like much, but the padel reached the bar of 75000 licensees when tennis continues its fall in licensees by approaching dangerously the bar of 70.000 licensees.

To illustrate these words and to understand the incredible development of padel, it should be noted that tennis still had in 2013 twice as many licensees as the padel...

In just six years, the padel overtook tennis.

The "Spanish Federation of padel (FEP) ”and the“ Real Federacion Española de tennis (RFET) ”enabled us to make this comparison which thus highlights the evolution of tennis and tennis. padel in number of licensees.

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.

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