Here, we are mainly talking about associative clubs, by that, we mean the municipal tennis clubs which embark on the adventure of padel with the hope for a certain number of them to stop the fall of licensees.

A sometimes winning option for clubs which allow the passage to increase their sporting offer and the visibility of the padel on the territory.

The elected official in charge of padel for the FFT, Hubert Picquier, moreover congratulated himself on “this mesh of padel throughout France".

Contrary to what one might think, certainly the municipal clubs are most often helped by subsidies coming from the region, the town hall and the French Tennis Federation or other associative bodies or public establishments, but many also invest with their own money. And so we see in many municipal clubs, a lot of work to develop the activity. So don't forget it.

We will also come back to this point, but we will see that there are far more synergies between private and municipal clubs than we think.

Le padel allows clubs to keep licensees and even earn them. And this is already a great victory for the clubs and the politics of the FFT.

Because if we only see “the 10.000 dismissed padel”, We do not see all the tennis licensees who do not necessarily participate in padel and therefore who are not represented in the French national ranking but who have kept their tennis license (Remember that this is a single license) because this allowed them to have access to the tennis courts. padel in their club.

And finally remember that the padel is a “leisure” sport. The majority of players do not compete in padel approved. But maybe with the implementation of the P25s, we could see a noticeable increase in the number of licensees. To be continued on this last point.

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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