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The Catalunya Master opens its doors in 4 days with the pre-qualifications. Focus on the start of this World Padel Tour and return to our French in this competition.

  • A fanfare start!

Located in the suburbs of Barcelona, ​​Badalone will host this first stage 2018. Le Barbera Padel Indoor will be the stage for qualifying with its 23 indoor tracks before the final show which will take place at the Olympic Palace in Badalone. It is the basketball club that occupies it throughout the year. It will be configured padel with a 6000-seat court!

The WPT hope to break the attendance record for a WPT match held by the Madrid Master Final last year with 5935 spectators. Another record is threatened, it is that of the greatest number of spectators over the total duration of the event. Established in Madrid, 21596 entries must be registered to enter the history of the padel world as the biggest tournament ever.

The ticket sales figures for the first few weeks are very good which shows the growing enthusiasm around the padel World.

  • Headliners

The call was made for this back-to-school and no absentee recorded at the moment. On the men's side, Belasteguin and Lima will be seeded number one just ahead of the two new pairs of the season. Sanchez and Gutierrez should cross the route of Paquito Navarro and Martin Diaz in the semi-finals if the logic of the ranking is respected.

On the female side, the Alayeto twins are going to want to extend their almost unrestrained reign of last season. Marta Marrero and Alejandra Salazar will be their biggest rivals for the title but we can hope for some surprises and why not French in this female painting.

  • French and French engaged

Honor to women first of all with our two representatives: Laura Clergue and Alix Collombon. Laura and her partner Meli Garcia Truchado enter directly into the final table as the 21st pair in the ranking. The objective will be to pass one or two rounds hoping for a not too difficult table since they could face all the best teams in the first round.

Alix, when it comes to her, thanks to the points of her partner Sara Pujals, narrowly misses the final table. They will be seeded 4 in qualifying with two games to win to advance to the main draw. Quite happy Alix told us: “I prefer to start with the qualifications as a seed to gain experience. There is also a point bonus when you get out of qualifying which is not negligible for my ranking if you get there ”

In the men's event, Robin Haziza, who will team up with Ferran Sotillo, is close to the pre-qualifying table. Note however that he could not play with his partner Jeremy Scatena because it did not have enough points. We hope that this French pair can play together very soon on the professional circuit.

The 100% French pair Blaque / Bergeron will also be there. Their goal of entering the world top 100 in 2018 will be through victories in these qualifying tournaments. You can help them with their project by supporting their kisskissbangbang campaign here: https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/ob Objectif-top-100-mondial

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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