US Wissous Tennis (Essonne - 91) also becomes US Wissous Padel ! With 2 courts of padel indoor, it is the second club in Essonne (Paris south) to embark on the adventure padel. Its obvious advantage: It is a 100% indoor club but not only ...

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Jean Marc Buffat, the club's president and the head of communication Danaé Darfour make us discover their club and their history.

What is the origin of this adventure around padel ?

Jean Marc Buffat (JMB) - I've been hearing about the padel. 25 years ago, Pierre Alexandrini already alerted me to this booming sport in Spain. Today the padel is a king sport in Spain. Not yet in France, but we are on an important wave of development. US Wissous Tennis has therefore invested in 2 courts of padel and why not more, if the padel is developing as we hope ...

Danaé Darfur (DD) - We have more than 300 tennis licensees for a town of 6000 inhabitants. It is not negligible. In this multisport club, the padel was missing. Many Spanish players have been asking us for years to put padel. It's done now.

What are you going to do next to launch the activity?

JMB - With squash, tennis, badminton, padel was the last missing link. We are probably going to have players of these sports test themselves at padel. But to launch us definitively on the scene of padel, tournaments are planned. In the medium term, a school of padel will be implemented.

DD - From the end of November, we will be offering a magnificent tournament with top French players. Sylvain Gimenez and Loïc Lepanse will offer their final stage of My Padel Passion. We expect a lot of good people.

JMB - We can also thank Cédric Carité for his professionalism. It allowed us to break in before setting up these padel, but also afterwards since we did an internship padel. (For more information: Padel Tennis Academy)

Le padel, is it a totally new sport for you?

JMB - I come from the world of tennis. The competition and school side, I appreciate and hope that the padel will bring us all this. We have owned Club de Wissous for 78 years. We started with 4 tennis courts and 2 squash courts. We put 2 more squash courts. At one point tennis went down. We therefore launched badminton which works very well. We had therefore removed 2 tennis courts. Then it was the turn of the Jorkyball to function less well. So we removed 2 Jorky lands by 2 padel.

On the commercial side, how does the club work?

DD - On the commercial part, we operate on the move. Or we operate via cards with a sliding scale. The advantage of padelis that we have to go through the lessons to have fun. To progress, you will obviously have to take lessons. And we will offer some I hope soon.

Interview by Franck Binisti - Padel Magazine

 

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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