In the new specifications of the French Tennis Federation, the mixed tournaments of padel can now be approved.

A very good thing for the players, for the clubs and for the spirit padel.

Last weekend, we already had the right to 2 mixed tournaments. One to the south, to Padel Marseille, and the other to the north, to Padel Attitude in Lille.

2 tournaments, and 2 success but ...

But we see appear despite the success, a problem in the tournaments that offer at the same time an Open ladies and gentlemen and a mixed Open: How not to play too many players?

Indeed, the FFT rightly limits the number of parties in a day according to the categories and format of games.

The trouble is that the best players and players team together most often and suddenly find themselves almost always in the last square ... Thus causing problems of playing time for the players but also organization for them clubs, because how to do when semi-finals ladies, gentlemen and mixed are supposed to play at the same time?

So we see huge gaps in the first rounds of these mixed tournaments. Those who want to play more in a tournament, actually play little more, while those who already go far in the tables find themselves with even more games in the legs.

We already remember this problem posed during the final stages of the National Padel Cup last year at the Center International du Cap d'Agde. We can also come back to the organizational problem that this caused during the Open de Casa Padel at the start of the year with a triple P1000… (even if the mixed P1000 was not homologated).

Should we put a regulation?

With the introduction of endowments and the homologation of mixed tournaments, it may be necessary to put in place a regulation as soon as possible, forcing, for example, that the team weight should not be less than 50, which would mean that the number French 1 could only play with the French 49 number (at best) for example ...

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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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