Tarascon Tennis Club, which already has 6 tennis courts including 2 covered clay courts, inaugurates its 2 padel outdoor. Laurent Rizzo explains how the TC de Tarascon embarked on the adventure padel.

Why did you launch the padel in your club?

I read the article in the local newspaper. This concerning the Padel of MonPlaisir in Avignon. In the Tarasconnaise region, there was not much. So it was a good opportunity to create a new activity that would complement tennis.

I am the recent President of the Tarascon Tennis Club and to inject dynamism, the padel fell just right. We hope that it will be an additional financial return.

Are people already coming to the club?

We already have people asking questions and wanting to come and play. It's not necessarily people who already play tennis. Moreover, we count on the padel to bring us additional members to animate the club.

It will be a club affiliated with the FFT. We hope to propose a tournament, animations to launch the machine.

We have very good padel. It went very well. The construction of land and materials are of very good quality.

We would very much like other clubs to padel are embarking on the adventure in the region to create a great emulation at the regional then national level. We are not afraid of possible competition. On the contrary, we hope so because it will be beneficial for all and for the clubs.

How will the training and teaching of the padel at the club ?

From May 8 to 13, we had a session which is set up by the club whose host was Cédric Carité from Padel Academy, a structure that has allowed us to update ourselves and be at the top in the transmission of teaching padel in our region.

We have 215 members of the club, a men's team in National 4, very professional BEs. There is everything to do beautiful things with the padel.

Interview conducted by Franck Binisti at TC Tarascon

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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